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La Trobe sustainability report discloses ESG action, targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... integrating sustainability issues throughout education, reducing environmental impacts on campus locations and through the supply chain, and providing equal opportunities in senior professional positions. La Trobe's goal is to "be at the forefront of ...

Global Reporting Initiative G4 draft out for public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... feedback. The G4 framework is focused on five main areas - boundary, application levels, governance and remuneration, supply chain, and disclosures on management approach. It will produce new and updated content. Public comment is invited from 25 June ...

Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... chains. The report noted that three companies that responded are in the process of, or are planning to carry out a supply chain water risk assessment. "In some jurisdictions within Australia, water is not reported as an asset in the financial accounts ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... chains. The report noted that three companies that responded are in the process of, or are planning to carry out a supply chain water risk assessment. "I'm not especially surprised that the awareness of supply chain risk is limited," Norton said. "When ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... focusing on encouraging Indigenous businesses. Most banks have policies in place to use Indigenous businesses in their supply chain - Blackburn-Wright points to their use of Message Stick for teleconferencing services as an example. Banks are also developing ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... regardless of the status of national protections or the location of operations." See Also: Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures Nearly half of ASX100 companies exposed to human rights risks Australian companies fail on labour repo ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... of businesses are talking action around energy efficiency, and it's four four main reasons," Smale said. "There's supply chain pressure they're encouraged to be seen to be green by their customers to help them with tenders. There are compliance reasons ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... products, steel products will probably rise. Then the costs that are passed on to you from people higher up in the supply chain. This is really how the carbon price will filter down throughout the economy. One of the really key, important, things that ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... profound revisions, we have to form working groups. At this moment we have five working groups. One of them, the Supply Chain Disclosure Working Group, started even before G4 because we knew this was a topic to be added to the next generation of the ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... automobiles, air freight and logistics, and road and rail. The second segment are 159 companies with the potential for large supply chain emissions reductions including internet and catalogue retail, multiline retail, specialty retail, food and staples ...