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GPT moves into refurbished, greener headquarters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... paperless desk environment in which dedicated desks for each employee were removed. There are now 272 desks for 320 employees, with occupancy of the desks at 77%, the company said. This has allowed GPT to move from occupying five floors to three, and ...

AGL wins three awards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability, we don't just think about the environment; we also think about our responsibilities to all our stakeholders - our employees, our customers, our shareholders, and the community." AGL's disclosure of risks and opportunities related to climate ...

ACSI CEO elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), and Priya Sara Mathur of US pension fund The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), and four non-asset owners, - Byrne, Paul Abberleychief executive of Aviva Investors London ...

ANZ files report for United Nations Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... "Respecting people and communities: ANZ's approach to human rights", a guide that was rolled out in October 2010 to ANZ employees in four languages - English, Indonesian Bahasa, Vietnamese and Chinese for staff based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The bank ...

CBRE certified carbon neutral in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... not directly control, such as corporate travel. "Like so many workplaces in Australia, the commitment and efforts of employees is essential to reducing a company's carbon emissions. Identifying potential emission savings and developing solutions should ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... our external managers about. I have also recently established a Sustainability Committee within VFMC which comprises employees from every department across the organisation. The key drivers for establishing the committee are being seen to walk the talk ...

"Two Strikes" for directors legislation passes Parliament

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... be harmful to Australian companies by creating instability and reducing flexibility, potentially disadvantaging both employees and shareholders," said AICD CEO John Colvin. AICD object to the two-strikes requirement and said that the "no vacancy" aspect ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... you quantified the expense of this to the fund? JT : It's probably costing us the equivalent of two to three full-time employees. We hope that over the longer term, both as we become more familiar with the process and as some of the companies react a ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... changing the thinking within an organisation, by taking the 'low-hanging fruit' - the quick wins - an organisation can get employees engaged. Of course, we realise that the numbers need to stack up and it needs to make commercial sense long term." The ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... to include key shareholders, investment houses, academics, non-governmental organisation, global leaders and 33,000 employees who completed the firm's global employee engagement survey. "The 2010 assessment prompted additional coverage of our Business ...