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Business has role to play in protecting human rights: Gillian Triggs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... progress on addressing the gender pay gap. "The gender pay gap continues to be an issue," Triggs said. "The World Economic Forum Gender Index places Australia in a regressive position - from 15th in 2006, now to 46th two years ago, and we still have ...

Cyber security a rapidly evolving material risk for companies: Citi Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... have to talk about how that evolves in terms of development of pricing risk, for example." Citi also cites a World Economic Forum (WEF) 2016 report " Understanding Systemic Cyber Risk", which says that the " evolving nature of systemic cyber risk is ...

Commonwealth Bank ranked in top ten of G100 Sustainability Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... index, while National Australia Bank was ranked at 50th. The index was announced earlier this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The index is based on a consideration of a broad range of sustainable business factors, including how ...

Disconnects holding back gender diversity: EY report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... will achieve gender parity on their board within the next 25 years. But the EY report cited data from the World Economic Forum (WEF) finding that "women are only 28% as likely to reach leadership positions as men," and that "based on current approaches ...

CDSB launches expanded reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... information in their annual reports. The framework was launched by former Swedish Finance Minister, Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Financial System Initiative Anders Borg and Michael Izza, CEO of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in ...

GRESB appoints two non-executive directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... traded real estate companies with an interest in U.S. real estate and capital markets. He also serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Real Estate and Urbanization and as a board member of the American Council on Capital ...

Challenges, opportunities in Australia's energy future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... first year, even as the Abbott government has attempted to abolish the investment fund. Yates noted that the World Economic Forum estimates that globally, $5.7 trillion dollars will have to be invested from now to 2020 into green infrastructure to mitigate ...

Westpac number one on global sustainability list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Knights, an independent media and investment research company based in Toronto. The announcement was made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "I am delighted that Westpac's sustainability performance has been rated so highly on the global ...

Climate Disclosure Standards Board becomes NCD supporter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... accounting, disclosure and reporting. National Australia Bank is one of the founding signatories. CDSB was by the World Economic Forum in 2007. It is managed by CDP with the mandate to provide business leaders and financial experts with practical tools ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... the tenets of responsible leadership. She cited a speech by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde to the World Economic Forum in which Lagarde said that responsible leadership was about "embracing the values of the new generation" - greater openness ...
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