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GRI and IIRC sign agreement for closer cooperation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) have agreed to work more closely together to deliver the integrated reporting guidelines due out later this year. The memorandum of understanding was signed ...

Monash University selected as sustainable development hub

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Monash University has been selected one of two universities in the world to lead a United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) hub. As part of the role, Monash will "mobilise research centres, industry and community organisations ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
An international team of biologists, including an associate professor at Monash University, have proposed a global biodiversity monitoring system based on a set of essential biodiversity variables to improve the data feeding biodiversity policy and ...

Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
The Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) has released a global climate investment index ranking the world's largest institutional asset owners on how they invest to manage climate risk. Australia's Local Government Super (LGS) was ranked the top institutional ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Editor's Note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this column from Josh Dowse. Josh is principal of Dowse CSP, a sustainability/ESG advisory firm, has worked on ESG, sustainability and communication issues with McKinsey & Company and Macquarie ...

Hermes Fund Managers launch quant ESG equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Hermes Fund Managers has created a global quantitative environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy and has announced that Local Government Super (LGS) has awarded a AU$90m mandate for the strategy. The strategy combines Hermes' existing quantitative ...

Kenyan bank endorses Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
The KCG Group has endorsed the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD), becoming the first Kenyan bank and the second African bank to sign on to the declaration. The Natural Capital Declaration affirms the importance of natural capital in maintaining a sustainable ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Meg McDonald is the CEO of Low Carbon Australia (LCAL), an independent company established in 2010 by the Australian government. LCAL manages an AU$84.6m investment fund which provides finance to improve energy efficiency and achieve carbon abatement ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Business, government and wider society must account for and manage the value and use of natural capital to maintain a sustainable global economy. Valuing natural capital as part of an economy is a challenge because standard investment and economic measures ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Investment consultants Towers Watson believes that the world economies are in a period of transformation across a range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, and institutional investors need a similar level of transformation to their ...