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ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... part of the UN Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project, which involves modelling teams from 15 major emitters - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, the UK and the USA. These ...

IIRC considers assurance of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... way in the adoption of Integrated Reporting." Other discussion forums are already being organised in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the US, by interested parties including accountancy bodies and firms, IIRC said. See Also ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... Non-financial, ESG/sustainability information disclosures is by and large a voluntary activity -recently, the ASX joined Bovespa Brazil, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Shen-Zeng Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange by requiring companies ...

ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... joint statement with Sustainable Business Australia, GRI noted that by introducing Recommendation 7.4, ASX joins Bovespa Brazil, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Shen-Zeng Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange by requiring companies to disclose ...

Crowe Horwath: sustainability as competitive advantage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... is not one standard for reporting by companies in each of those countries, de Sousa-Shields said. "Colombia, Chile and Brazil are in the top tier of reporting and activity, then Argentina, and Mexico are in the next tier, and then there are smatterings ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... update of the BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index (BSRI). The BSRI focused on the US and what it labels the "Fragile Five" - Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey. According to BlackRock, "Willingness to Pay" was the driver behind most of the ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Christianna Wood has been named the new chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative board, and six directors have been named to the board. Wood takes over from outgoing GRI Chairman Herman Mulder. She is a member of the board of the International Integrated ...

GNDI comments on proposed Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Network of Director Institutes (GNDI) supports improvements to corporate reporting as proposed in the International Integrated Reporting Framework, but says that any changes to the way organisations report should reduce the overall reporting ...

NYSE joins UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
NYSE Euronext, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, will join the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative. The SSE Initiative is co-organized by the UN Global Compact, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the UN-supported ...

European Commission proposes standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Teresa Fogelberg, deputy chief executive of the Global Reporting Initiative. "In recent years countries like India, China, Brazil, South Africa and the US have pioneered a number of innovative policies on sustainability disclosure. This proposal is an ...