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Publish What You Pay renews call for mandatory disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... at mandatory reporting of country-by-country payments. Bradbury made that statement during last month's Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) conference in Sydney. Australia's EITI pilot started in July 2012 and the AU$500,000 cost was ...

NZ Super excludes nuclear base operators from investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Fund will exclude publicly listed companies Babcock & Wilcox, Fluor Corporation, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Jacobs Engineering Group, Serco Group and URS Corporation. A private company, Bechtel Group - which the fund does not currently ...

CDP signs agreements with SASB, GRI to further standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... of climate change and sustainability issues. SASB is developing sustainability accounting standards for more than 80 industries, designed to be used in annual mandatory filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Under the terms of the ...

EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... government ministers, globally listed extractive companies and civil society representatives during the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) conference in Sydney last week. During the conference, EITI announced reforms to the existing ...

Australia to consider country-level payment disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... payments they make on a country-by-country basis after evaluating the results of the Australian pilot of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) later this year. Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury Speaking at the EITI conference in Sydney ...

Budget to cut ARENA funding, bring forward money to CTIP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... 2013-2014 budget provides both approval and disappointment for advocates of the clean energy and energy efficiency industries, as measures impact on funding of both the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Clean Technology Investment Program ...

CA Technologies: increased focus on IT energy consumption

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... experienced the supply chain push for greater action on sustainability, noting that companies around the world and across industries are asking for information about sustainability activity in requests for proposals (RFPs) for all of CA Technologies' ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... estate companies feature in the top 10 holdings of both model portfolios - Westpac, Telstra, CSL, AMP, Suncorp, Brambles Industries, Insurance Australia Group, Stockland, Resmed and GPT Group are the top 10 holdings of the ASX100 index. Westpac, ANZ ...

ESG risks impact transport sector earnings, share price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... policies are rising in the transport sector, and the transport and storage industry has the highest incidence rate of all industries, Carlsson-Sweeny wrote in a report on the transport sector. The median payment for serious claims rose by 44% between ...

Publish What You Pay reexamining extractive companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Australian Securities Exchange: extractive industry companies and payment disclosure, and will be launched at the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) conference in Sydney in May, said Claire Spoors, PWYP Australia coordinator. "This ...