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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... progress on addressing the gender pay gap. "The gender pay gap continues to be an issue," Triggs said. "The World Economic Forum Gender Index places Australia in a regressive position - from 15th in 2006, now to 46th two years ago, and we still have ...

Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
More than 130 Queensland sugarcane farmers are participating in a partnership between Coca-Cola and the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia), which provides funding to study innovative and more sustainable farming techniques to positively ...

Cyber security a rapidly evolving material risk for companies: Citi Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... have to talk about how that evolves in terms of development of pricing risk, for example." Citi also cites a World Economic Forum (WEF) 2016 report " Understanding Systemic Cyber Risk", which says that the " evolving nature of systemic cyber risk is ...

Commonwealth Bank ranked in top ten of G100 Sustainability Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... index, while National Australia Bank was ranked at 50th. The index was announced earlier this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The index is based on a consideration of a broad range of sustainable business factors, including how ...

Disconnects holding back gender diversity: EY report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... will achieve gender parity on their board within the next 25 years. But the EY report cited data from the World Economic Forum (WEF) finding that "women are only 28% as likely to reach leadership positions as men," and that "based on current approaches ...

Food Loss and Waste Accounting Standard launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... requirements for managing food loss and waste. The Food Loss and Waste Protocol was convened at the 3GF 2013 Summit by the World Resources Institute, and protocol partners include the Consumer Goods Forum, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

Paris Agreement refers to mitigation co-benefits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... into account and that everyone should have an appropriate sustainable development pathway in a new, more climate stable world." Gerrard said. Article 4 paragraph six of the Agreement provides that "Mitigation co-benefits resulting from Parties' adaptation ...

CDSB launches expanded reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... information in their annual reports. The framework was launched by former Swedish Finance Minister, Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Financial System Initiative Anders Borg and Michael Izza, CEO of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in ...

GRESB appoints two non-executive directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... traded real estate companies with an interest in U.S. real estate and capital markets. He also serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Real Estate and Urbanization and as a board member of the American Council on Capital ...

Challenges, opportunities in Australia's energy future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... first year, even as the Abbott government has attempted to abolish the investment fund. Yates noted that the World Economic Forum estimates that globally, $5.7 trillion dollars will have to be invested from now to 2020 into green infrastructure to mitigate ...