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NCD launches Soft Commodities Forest-risk Assessment Tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
The majority of global financial institutions do not have policies requiring clients to comply with local, national and international laws and regulations relating to forest conservation, according to the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) and the UN ...

ACSI calls for better ASX disclosure of mental health and safety

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
More than 90% of ASX200 financial companies and 75% of mining and utilities companies have commitments to workplace mental health and safety, but barely one third publicly disclose information on the effectiveness of those programs, according to research ...

CDP, South Pole Group to conduct water security assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
South Pole Group and CDP will conduct a global assessment of how 700 of the world's largest companies manage water security risks. Cate Lamb, head of CDP's water program CDP has created a public scoring methodology to evaluate and benchmark corporate ...

Investors, payday lenders engage on lending practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... $100,000 to consumers "following concerns raised by ASIC that it breached consumer credit laws and engaged in misleading conduct," according to an ASIC announcement. "Money3's 'fixed fee' loan (also promoted as a 'LACC' loan) required only two repayments ...

Experts warn of trustees' climate change litigation risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... suffered a loss," Slade said. "There has to be financial injury that you can prove that is caused by someone else's wrongful conduct." Another alternative would be a challenge based on misleading or deceptive conduct, Barker said. "What isn't clear is ...

VicSuper exploring developing climate change fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... companies that are actively reducing their climate change impacts. The fund's internal market intelligence analyst will conduct the research and engage with members to see if there is member demand and, depending on the outcome, will conduct a business ...

ANZ issues $600m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
ANZ has issued an AU$600 million green bond that will finance green property, wind power and solar projects. The bond - ANZ's first green bond and the second issued by an Australian bank - is five-year fixed rate, priced at 99.384 and an 80 bps spread ...

ACCSR tracks Australian/NZ progress towards CSR innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
Corporate sustainability officers have an increased sense of optimism that corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices are driving innovation and impacting on environmental, social and economic challenges, according to the Australian Centre for ...

Materiality reviews a source of strategic value: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Integrated Reporting Council, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. The paper is aimed at those organisations that conduct - or plan to conduct - materiality reviews. "We do a lot of materiality reviews, sometimes as a stand-alone exercise ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance receives $33m federal funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
The federal government has allocated AU$33.3 million over the next five years to expand the No Interest Loan Scheme (NILS) and StepUP low interest loans offered by Good Shepherd Microfinance. Adam Mooney, CEO of Good Shepherd Microfinance Good Shepherd ...