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Demand exceeds supply in Australian green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... that will pave the way for others and the market will recognise that it is a wonderful opportunity to highlight to stakeholders your sustainability strategy." The lack of adequate supply in the Australian market has forced certain practicalities on institutional ...

CHRB launches human rights methodology, pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... seeking to change that. "The CHRB Steering Committee has for the last two years been consulting a broad range of stakeholders to help us figure out a way to robustly, fairly and publicly measure companies' policies and governance, systems and processes ...

GRI, CDP publish updated reporting guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... reputational risks, and their sources, whilst reducing the reporting burden for companies. This also enables financial stakeholders to better understand and compare how businesses are managing climate-related issues for a resilient future." The guidance ...

Social license to operate key to achieving sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... mapping exercises are categorising, and some go as far as Venn diagrams," Boutilier said. "We do a census of the stakeholders and their relationship - we put together a social network graph and do social network analysis. That is a well developed area ...

Engaging corporate boards key to embedding sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... representative to the UN Global Compact To grapple with these issues as well as understand the relative balance of stakeholders including shareholders, companies must integrate sustainability across their strategic business agenda and into specific board ...

GRI creates GOLD Community for stakeholders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... has launched a new membership and engagement program, the GRI GOLD Community, consisting of representatives from stakeholders across business, civil society, and government. The GRI GOLD Community consists of representatives of more than 500 organisations ...

Impact Investing Australia launches guide to define social costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... examples. The framework is designed to organise material in such a way as to present data and analysis to a variety of stakeholders - the social services providers, government bodies, investors, insurers, and other participants, said Lynne Pezzullo ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... expected to be a growth area of their business. Companies will continue to evolve their reporting and disclosures to stakeholders and regulators, even as reporting standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) transitions from a set of guidelines ...

Global Investors sign Paris Green Bonds Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
Institutional investors and other stakeholders have made commitments to support the further development of green bonds as part of the activity needed to achieve climate change goals arising form the Paris Climate Summit (COP21). Twenty seven global ...

GRI links connections between G4, UN Guiding Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... launched this linkage document at the Fourth United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. The document provides stakeholders with an understanding of how companies can integrate and adhere to the Guiding Principles while using G4. "Governments ...