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ICMM members commit to adopt GRI G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
The 21 companies of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) have agreed to prepare their sustainability report to the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) G4 guidelines. The requirement to report to the core option of the G4 guidelines ...

Video Panel: Integrating ESG in Fixed Income Investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
Integrating ESG in Fixed Income Investing from The Sustainability Report on Vimeo. The Sustainability Report moderated this live panel debate in Sydney covering how to incorporate ESG analysis into the design and oversight of fixed income portfolios ...

CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... tenants, a move that one financial expert questioned. When Commonwealth Bank recently released its 2013 sustainability report, it included the announcement that the bank had achieved and exceeded a goal set in 2008 to reduce carbon emissions by 20% by ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Labor Party and the Australian Greens have said they will not support the repeal. Legal experts told The Sustainability Report that if the legislation repealing the CPM is not passed before 1 July 2014, liable entities face uncertainty because the CPM ...

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 ...