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ACCSR: Companies lack strategies to manage human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... knowledge and the skills and the capacities to get on with it." Editor's note: MSCI, in conjunction with The Sustainability Report, will host a panel discussion on Dec. 8 examining the investment risks and opportunities around human rights issues. For ...

South Australia passes building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... to the lessee resulting from the upgrade works during the period to which the contribution relates, The Sustainability Report has previously reported. South Australia is now the become the third state where EUAs/BUFs are offered - Victoria and New South ...

NZ Super publishes white paper on ESG beliefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... that some types of investment strategies lend themselves more to working in ESG issues," O'Connor told The Sustainability Report during an interview at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) conference. "We are always actively looking ...

GRI links connections between G4, UN Guiding Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published a linkage document that demonstrates the connections between the GRI G4 Reporting Guidelines and the concepts of the United Nations Guiding Principle on Business and Human Rights. GRI notes that there ...

GRI CEO discusses future of sustainability reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... standards should be the basis for those metrics. "I think the market in general is confused - do I do a sustainability report, do I do an integrated report," he said. "In reality, there are only a handful of standards for non-financial information reporting ...

WBCSD, CDSB, Ecodesk to develop The Reporting Exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and Ecodesk are developing The Reporting Exchange, which will be a free global sustainability reporting knowledge platform. The Reporting Exchange ...

Mirvac marks strategic process in 2015 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... financial year. Paul Edwards, group general manager sustainability, Mirvac Mirvac recently released its 2015 sustainability report, Stories of Change. For the financial year, the company's statutory profit after tax increased by 36% to $609.9 million ...

G4 to transition to GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) G4 Guidelines will transition to GRL Sustainability Reporting Standards under a plan approved by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB). The GSSB is the independent standard-setting body created by the ...

Sustainability reporting improving, room to grow: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
Companies are improving the effectiveness of their non-financial reporting, but they need to improve the quality of disclosures for sustainability reporting to reach its full potential, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development ...

Investors demanding better corporate ESG disclosure: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are increasingly using companies' non-financial disclosures in their decision making process, but nearly two thirds of respondents to an EY survey said that companies do not adequately disclose material environmental, social ...