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UN GCNA appoints Pru Bennett to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
The UN Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA) has appointed corporate governance expert Pru Bennett to its board of directors. Kylie Porter, GCNA executive director Bennett is a former managing director of Blackrock with more than 20 years' experience ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... 12,000 businesses and other organisations as members. In Australia, the GCNA brings together signatories to the UN Global Compact, including more than 30 ASX 100 companies and other major corporates, non-profits and universities, to advance corporate ...

Company, investor climate change partnership "essential": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... will exclude them from the investment universe," she said. "That's especially for companies where we identify a UN Global Compact breach. Portfolio managers take the result of our engagement assessment as part of their analysis and different investment ...

Foresight Group launches Foresight Renwable Energy Income Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... Principles for Responsible Investment and a member of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia and the UN Global Compact. "Australian investors - whether they are retail, wholesale or institutional - are becoming more climate-aware and increasingly ...

Business has role to play in protecting human rights: Gillian Triggs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... Gillian Triggs, former president of the Australian Human Rights Commission Triggs gave a keynote speech at the UN Global Compact Network Australia's Inaugural Conference in Melbourne this week. The conference's overarching theme was Rebuilding Trust ...

NZ Super to divest from gun manufacture investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... a small number of individual companies for severe breaches of responsible investment standards, such as the UN Global Compact, "where engagement is unlikely to be, or has not been, effective due to the context of the company's operations or to a lack ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... are still grappling with," he said. "This is where organisations like WBCSD and BCSD Australia, along with the UN Global Compact and others, are bringing forward the analysis in a twofold aspect, with frameworks and case studies where strategic analysis ...

GRI, UN Global Compact release guide to measure, report on SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Mohin, chief executive at GRI. The guide is a new reporting framework, but builds on the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards. The guide discourages ...

NZ Super to exclude companies in recreational cannabis industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... a small number of individual companies for severe breaches of responsible investment standards, such as the UN Global Compact, where engagement is unlikely to be effective due to the context of the company's operations or to a lack of responsiveness ...

WBCSD survey finds continued progress in quantity, quality of sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... way than has been present," Petersen said. "That's where the work of SASB and IIRC and GRI s doing with the UN Global Compact on the SDGs, it's going to start reworking what that platform of transparency and disclosure will result in. We may not see ...