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Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Finlayson is in Australia to meet with clients and potential asset servicing clients and spoke with The Sustainability Report on the increased transparency demands surrounding alternative investments, particularly private equity analysis. He said that ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Christianna Wood has been named the new chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative board, and six directors have been named to the board. Wood takes over from outgoing GRI Chairman Herman Mulder. She is a member of the board of the International Integrated ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... last month. LGS invested $1 million, and was one of 14 investors to participate in the offer, LGS told The Sustainability Report. The bond will fund environmentally sustainable projects in the areas of as energy efficiency, clean energy, water management ...

Westpac, CBA raise $10 million for Benevolent Society SBB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... to have a control group," Sandy Blackburn-Wright, the then-head of social innovation at Westpac told The Sustainability Report in June, when The Benevolent Society SBB was launched. "From a social work perspective, it's tricky to withhold care, but there's ...

66% of BM&FBOVESPA companies publish sustainability data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Approximately two-thirds of all companies listed on the Sao Paulo stock exchange published a sustainability report, an increase from 203 to 293 companies between May 2012 and June 2013, according to the Global Reporting Initiative. The BM&FBOVESPA has ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... common set of terms, concepts, accounting principles and classifications. Accounting professionals told The Sustainability Report that ecosystem accounting is an emerging, experimental field, and said that the proposed SEEA-Experimental Ecosystem Accounting ...

Foresters Community Finance funding for early stage ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... units, and that these two things in conjunction de-risk the proposition." Foresters have previously told The Sustainability Report they charge a management fee of 1.4% on their funds. "In terms of the fees on the fund, as the fund manager, we charge ...

Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... are "moving from good intentions to significant actions," the organisation said in its Global Corporate Sustainability Report 2013, which was based on survey responses from 1,712 companies in 113 countries - around 25% of all signatories. The survey ...

YES BANK signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Capital Awards and several adjacent initiatives." YES BANK recently became the first Indian bank to release a sustainability report certified at the "A" level under the Global Reporting Initiative's 3.1 guidelines. The bank said that as part of its commitment ...

AECOM employees to support Pollinate Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... target market in Bangalore is the residents of slums who earn day wages. Pollinate Energy previously told The Sustainability Report that women earn around 200 rupees a day on average and men can earn 300 to 500 rupees per day on average. If people have ...