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Leightons under investigation over payment disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... " The Publish What You Pay movement is working at the moment to develop an Australian case study of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, and what that will do is give companies a framework hopefully to assist them to disclose some ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... that all of the companies in the top 10 have reported on ESG factors for a long time. The characteristics of certain industries, such as mining, put certain companies in a position where reporting and managing ESG matters were more front-of-mind activities. ...

Ken Henry to speak at ACCSR annual conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... government in the Tasmanian Forest Intergovernmental Agreement process, former CEO of the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI); how CSR can help develop new products and markets, chaired by David Knowles, director, philanthropic services ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... policies up to US$8tr by 2030. If the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... potentially an opportunity for them to reflect requirements that have been integrated in the EU and US along the [Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative] EITI pathway," he said. "That would point to an ideal opportunity to bring Australia in line ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... underreporting and over reporting," Wilson said. "The particular industry matters as well when examining OHS - some industries have so much risk, others have risk in other ways. But yes, it is simplistic and there are things that don't get reported ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... 52.6% and Fosters Group at 51.6%, while the top 10 companies scoring an average of 44%. The report found that across industries, consumer staples had the best public disclosures of upstream and downstream supply chains, at 33.5%, with telecommunications ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... commodity associations. It was established in 2001 to improve sustainable development performance in the mining and metals industries. The ICMM's members include: African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, AREVA, Barrick, BHP Billiton ...

ANZ's employee engagement, net profit increases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... investment decisions in socially and environmentally sensitive sectors - water, forestry and forests, energy and extractive industries. "Together, these policies and tools are helping us to embed a culture of responsible lending across our business and ...

Only 4% of CDP respondents see high risks with carbon pricing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... improvement over last year, the report noted that reductions are mostly being set by companies in lower carbon intensive industries, "possibly indicating that emissions intensive companies are either still undecided as to whether they should set targets ...