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Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... and purposes and values on its website. The firm reported a number of environmental accomplishments to The Sustainability Report, including increasing their building's NABERS rating from 3 to 4.5, revegetating a 40 metre section along the Brisbane River ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting. During the Australian GRI conference in Melbourne on 26-28 March, Arbex spoke with The Sustainability Report on GRI's progress towards developing the forthcoming G4 reporting guidelines, how G4 will play into the move towards ...

GRESB joins forces with GRI to push sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) will partner with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a move designed to advance the standardisation of reporting on environmental, social and economic performance in the global real estate ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... community and landholder relationships," said David Knox, Santos CEO and managing director, in the company sustainability report. "I am committed to meeting or exceeding the highest legislative, ethical, environmental and social standards - it is both ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... to sign off on financial accounts, then there should be the same sort of emphasis on signing off on the sustainability report as well." Panellists discussed disclosures around carbon prices as a proxy for wider ESG reporting. Because of the uncertainty ...

Companies should present negative sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) that they feel "anger, anxiety or concern" when reading a sustainability report. ACCSR analysed data it collected from 16 research projects conducted between 2006 and 2011, relating to the way stakeholders ...

Integrated reporting to provide analysis, innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Integrated reporting could act as a "steadying arm" to the invisible hand of the free market, said Jane Diplock, director, Singapore Exchange. Speaking at the Australian Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Conference on Sustainability and Integrated Reporting ...

Corporate sustainability a vehicle for value creation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Corporate sustainability should be about strategic value creation, rather than just a statement of values, and the integrated reporting framework could assist companies in seeing environmental, social and governance (ESG) as central to strategy, according ...

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
James Gifford is the executive director of the UNPRI. He is currently in Australia and met with The Sustainability Report to talk about PRI's progress, its future plans, the challenges to implementing responsible investment (RI,) and how PRI can assist ...

UNPRI writes letter to UNGC leaders and laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
A coalition of investors from 12 countries, including Statewide Super and New Zealand Superannuation Fund, have contacted 118 UN Global Compact (UNGC) companies on the issue of increased reporting on environmental, social and governance activities. ...