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Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainable development review that in 2010, the company expanded its stakeholder assessment to include key shareholders, investment houses, academics, non-governmental organisation, global leaders and 33,000 employees who completed the firm's global ...

ANZ reviewing "sensitive sector" policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
ANZ Bank is reviewing its sensitive sector policies to ensure that their corporate responsibility framework is consistent with their customer engagement in socially and environmentally sensitive sectors including water, forestry, energy and mining and ...

Global push for "report or explain" on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
A coalition of Australian and international sustainability organizations is calling on market regulators around the world to apply "if-not-why-not" policies for corporate sustainability reporting. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched the ...

Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... the GRI, the principles of the UN Global Compact, the guidance provided in ISO 26000 and the JSE Socially Responsible Investment Index criteria. The organisation should discern which elements of the reporting standards and frameworks will contribute ...

Australian companies fail on labour reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... investor is having comparable and consistent data in the report itself." CFSGAM uses ESG analytics to inform their investment process, Edgerton said. "As an investor of more than $154bn, CFSGAM has numerous investment processes, so the use of the reported ...

UN PRI rolls out mandatory fees, expanded agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) will have to pay an annual fee to the secretariat from this month as the organisation embarks on a plan to increase its presence in markets around the world and provide guidance ...

AGL wins award for sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Griffiths, Latrobe Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability's Research Fellow Stephen Muir and Sustainable Investment Research Institute's (SIRIS) Associate Director of Research, Ben Spruzen. "When we think about sustainability, we don't ...

PRI hires Rob Lake as director of strategic development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has hired Rob Lake as director of strategic development, effective 16 May. Rob Lake Lake will be responsible for PRI's country networks, signatory outreach and recruitment, the academic network and the public ...

SP AusNet contributes to Gippsland Sports Academy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... SP AusNet will contribute $15,000 over three years to the Gippsland Sports Academy in Victoria. "We see this as an investment in excellence - one that aims to provide greater skilling for our Gippsland youth," said Jim Haylock, SP AusNet eastern region ...

Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... expectations," said Sheehy of the CSA. [Integrated sustainability reporting] will be successful in that way. It does rely on the investment community to continue to seek this information." But relying on the investor community to come to the table with ...