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Climate Bond Standard to screen green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Office, the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR). The prototype was developed over six months and included a public consultation period and input from industry experts including the International Finance Corporation ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... series of interviews, documentation review and relevant external research, the group split their related material issues into six categories - business conduct, Mirvac people, external stakeholders, environmental impact, product responsibility and supply ...

Global Reporting Initiative calls for G4 public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... reporting. G4 will be based on current guidelines, but will also be shaped to reflect the needs for reporting over the next six to eight years, said Nelmara Arbex, GRI deputy chief executive. "Should companies be required to report on a globally defined ...

Variability in level of ASX100 supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... some reporting frameworks." More than half the ASX 100 companies scored less than 10% on average across all categories. Only six scored 40% and above and only three scored more than 50%. "This may be an indication that the concept of supply chain sustainability ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... tonnes per full time employee equivalent, lower than last year. CBA's new Commonwealth Bank Place in Sydney has been awarded a six star Green Star rating for the base building office design and is targeting a six star Green Star rating for office as ...

Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... - the sons of the executive chairperson. Harvey Norman also has a CEO and an executive chairperson as does Crown. In 2009, six of the sample had an executive chairperson. In another five cases the chairperson was not independent on the entity's own classification ...

ACSI recommend against News Corp board re-election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has recommended that superannuation funds invested in News Corporation vote against the re-election of six of the company's executive directors in the upcoming annual general meeting. "Progress on these issues is occurring ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... the company integrated the recommendations in the UNPRI, of which DEXUS is a signatory. As part of that, DEXUS developed a "six pillar" strategic stakeholder approach - investors, tenants, suppliers, employees, community and environment and reported ...

Carbon price to have limited impact on superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... could hit earnings most for ASX 200 companies, held in many of the funds, that are more carbon-intensive than their peers in six sectors," said Richard Mattison, chief executive of Trucost. "Superannuation investment managers can manage carbon risk by ...

Australian property funds top GRESB list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... consumption in 2010 by almost 3% and water consumption by nearly 5%. Australian property companies dominated, holding positions in six of GRESB's global top 10. The global number one in this year's GRESB survey is the Commonwealth Property Office Fund ...