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Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be a vehicle for innovation and not just risk mitigation, and the challenge for CSR practitioners is to find the areas where businesses can use social needs as a source of profit generation. The Australian Centre ...

Managing regulatory impacts priority for CSR practitioners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR). Out of a list of 13 possible drivers of CSR practices, innovation ranked ninth, well behind drivers such as strengthening brand, meeting community expectations, commitments to international ...

Ken Henry to speak at ACCSR annual conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... who is also a non-executive director at NAB, will speak to the ACCSR conference, which has taken the theme of "The Innovation Imperative - taking CSR from risk management to value creation" and will feature round table sessions and several addresses. ...

Optus CR discloses responsible marketing, customer service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Telecommunications provider Optus said responsible marketing, customer service and safety, driving innovation and uptake of technology and building social inclusion were all material issues to their corporate responsibility (CR) goal. Optus, a subsidiary ...

Presima joins Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... in including ESG factors as a part of our investment process, ensures that we remain at the forefront of investment innovation." GRESB conducts a survey assessing the environmental and social performance of public and private commercial real estate investments. ...

RIAA: responsible investment funds grew 8% in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... economy is now more reliant upon intangible assets to create value: supply chain management, resource efficiency, product innovation, community reputation and ability to access new markets to name a few. These intangible value drivers now make up the ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... package, AU$300m will be provided over four years to the steel industry with the "objective of encouraging investment, innovation and competitiveness in the Australian steel manufacturing industry to assist it transform into an increasingly efficient ...

AGL wins three awards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... this year, AGL took out top prize at the Energy Supply Association of Australia's (ESAA) Sustainability Reporting and Innovation Awards for its 2010 Sustainability Report. In 2010, AGL was jointly awarded best sustainability report with Westpac at the ...

IGCC: carbon price delay could cost electricity sector $2.5bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... electricity prices, on other sectors of the economy. Additionally, the study didn't capture economic benefits from greater innovation, experience with new technologies from learning by doing or reduced economic volatility from starting in 2012. The IGCC/Catholic ...

Swan: carbon price vital for first-rate, first-world economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Putting a price on carbon emissions is the only way to drive investment in cleaner energy innovation, and failing to do so would condemn Australia to becoming "an old-world, high-polluting technological backwater," Treasurer Wayne Swan said in a speech ...