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LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... index's higher ESG scores, a larger proportion of ESG ratings, and a lower proportion of poorly rated companies. "It confirms a few of our thoughts," said Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability at LGS. "The ASX is more carbon intensive than the MSCI world ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... reviewed undirected proxies in the 2010 AGM season from the top five companies with the largest shareholder base. "Just these few companies accounted for over AU$2bn worth of lost shares," CSA said. "The impact of the loss of such a significant body ...

Voluntary sustainability disclosures carry legal weight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental effects that water management can have," Philips said. "There is going to be a real battlefield over water over the next few years. It's important to note that for carbon, mandatory reporting happened very quickly. I think water is a massive ...

Mercer ratings demonstrate challenge of integrating ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Mercer only gave 9% of more than 5,000 environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies in their database their highest ratings because their evaluation is based on how strategies integrate ESG into the active construction of portfolio ...

Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... integrate responsible investment practices. We would expect the number of highly rated strategies to increase over the next few years as more and more investment professionals come to recognise the sound investment and competitive reasons for active ...

IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... the ground can possibly create investment constraints, or worse, create a situation in which too much capital is chasing too few projects with sub-optimal results. "In this respect, the CEFC is forecast to have AU$10bn to invest over the next five years ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... the willingness of NGOs to target funds via the members on the basis of the companies they're invested in," Paterson said. "Few superannuation funds have established processes and policies for dealing with that type of communication with members, and ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
2012 is set to be another full year for sustainability and environmental, social and governance considerations, including events like the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June, we look back at the topics that stirred interest ...

CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The agricultural sector will be heavily impacted by effects of climate change, but a study of U.S. suppliers of tomatoes and potatoes shows a widely diverging capability to report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and identify areas of successful emissions ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The social and environmental supply chain policies and disclosures of ASX-listed companies has come under renewed scrutiny, with Net Balance concluding ASX100 companies do not uniformly disclose those supply chain impacts, and the Australian Council ...