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NCD launches Soft Commodities Forest-risk Assessment Tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
The majority of global financial institutions do not have policies requiring clients to comply with local, national and international laws and regulations relating to forest conservation, according to the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) and the UN ...

ACCR to lodge carbon disclosure resolutions for AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... shareholders, at reasonable cost and omitting any proprietary information, information about ongoing power generation and supply chain emissions management benchmarked against that model," according to the resolution. ACCR noted that AGL's spike in carbon ...

CEFC reports investing $500 million in last year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... benefits to the Australian economy, such as assisting technologies to move down the cost curve, and building skills and supply chain capacity designed to assist Australia's move to a lower carbon economy. In particular, there is an important role for ...

New Climate Economy report tackles decarbonisation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
Decarbonising the global economy and keeping global warming under 2C is possible, but requires international coordination from policy makers, business, investors and other stakeholders. Kate Levick, director of policy and regulation, CDP For businesses ...

Technology to push sustainability reporting forward: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... that companies could be able to disclose performance information in context alongside the information from their supply chain and regional partners. This information will be digital as well, which means that reports and disclosures will be released more ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... commitments around "science-based carbon emission reduction targets", strategies around renewable energy procurement and supply chain activities, as well as corporate reporting, are designed to send signals to government on the need for comprehensive ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... in the technology hardware and equipment sector, and the four most important factors were innovation management, supply chain management, corporate governance and human capital management. Sector specific factors were environmental enabling, privacy ...

Supply chain sustainability school launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... and infrastructure companies have partnered to launch an online school to increase sustainability knowledge around supply chain issues. John Holland, Mirvac, Stockland, Downer Tenix, McConnell Dowell, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... CDP analysed suppliers from 11 countries in relation to their climate change risk. (Image courtesy of CDP) CDP's Supply chain sustainability revealed: a country comparison. CDP supply chain report 2014-15 collected data from 3,396 companies on behalf ...

Bondor, QUT partner on sustainable building material project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... collaborated on two previous projects. The project's goal is to develop an Innovations Adoption Toolkit (IAT) for housing supply chain agents to identify and implement innovations. "This particular project came about from previous research saying that ...