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| | | With some institutional investors turning their analysis to impact and social value investments, measuring how those investments provide value has also seen a concomitant rise in visibility. Social return on investment (SROI) is a principle that has ... |
| | | | James Gifford is the executive director of the UNPRI. He is currently in Australia and met with The Sustainability Report to talk about PRI's progress, its future plans, the challenges to implementing responsible investment (RI,) and how PRI can assist ... |
| | | | The AU$6bn Local Government Super (LGS) has selected MSCI to measure and monitor ESG and carbon characteristics of its portfolios. "Local Government Super believes that a well-developed responsible investment strategy can both assist in generating long-term ... |
| | | | The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published a new guidance for the events sector to increase the relevance of reporting on issues including greenhouse gas emissions, waste, attendee travel, event legacy, and initiatives taken at an event to ... |
| | | | The introduction of the carbon pricing regime will be one of the top priorities for companies and investors in 2012, with a concurrent interest in increased investment in assets to mitigate and adapt climate change, according to sustainability professionals. ... |
| | | | 2012 is set to be another full year for sustainability and environmental, social and governance considerations, including events like the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June, we look back at the topics that stirred interest ... |
| | | | The agricultural sector will be heavily impacted by effects of climate change, but a study of U.S. suppliers of tomatoes and potatoes shows a widely diverging capability to report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and identify areas of successful emissions ... |
| | | | Three quarters of ASX100 companies that operate in a sector or country deemed "high-risk" for corruption, up from 56% in 2006, and Australian companies lag US, UK and European counterparts in prohibiting the giving and receiving of bribes, according ... |
| | | | Environmental, social and governance risk considerations have evolved from a fringe area of investment management to become mainstream calculations. But asset owners and managers are seeking further integration into fixed income and cash asset allocations ... |
| | | | Renewable energy investments have appeal for institutional investors as infrastructure projects that provide a hedge against the anticipation of future costs on carbon emissions as well as meet sustainable investment targets. But while global bodies ... |
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