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APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... financial review (OFR) as part of directors' annual reports. RG 247 is widely seen as opening further opportunities for transparency around environmental and social issues and their material impacts. "APRA thought the definitions were problematic, and ...

Investors commit to growing green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... "develop clear standards for the climate change impacts and benefits of bond finance projects," issuers to ensure transparency around use of proceeds and impact, and governments to develop projects that can be financed by green and climate bonds. "Climate ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Reporting Committee (IIRC). This will have impacts in Australia. "The IIRC, the ASX and ASIC are all driving for greater transparency on short, medium and long term social, environmental and economic risks impacting organisations' financial viability," ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... governance processes developed with a strong focus on building confidence among investors, ensuring accountability and transparency between shareholders and company management. AMP Capital pointed to the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... it's being assured or not. That serves to clear up the miscommunication over the G3 plus system. G4 is helping the transparency of assurance." There is also an emerging trend for Australian companies to report not only on environmental indicators, but ...

PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... Reynolds, PRI managing director. "We welcome proactive dialogue between investors and businesses to stimulate improved transparency and risk management practices, and in turn promote resilience in food production in an increasingly water scarce world." ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... the business was facing." Cities and businesses must collaborate and coordinate, according to the report. Greater transparency is also an important part of the process, Bulla said. "Greater transparency of climate change risks and their expected impacts ...

Carbon Trade Exchange launches REC trading platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... or wind-back. The CTX REC market is an exchange platform for buyers, sellers and brokers, increasing liquidity and transparency in the market, and avoiding the over-the-counter processes that involve additional costs and greater risk, CTX said. "Providing ...

Barclays, MSCI to launch Green Bond Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... will be an extremely useful tool for issuers and institutional investors and an important step in the evolution, transparency, and standardization of the Green Bond market," Glascott said. Separately, MSCI have also announced that MSCI ESG Research will ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... underwriting fees for share placements in the same way as currently applies to rights issues," ACSI said. "This improved transparency will allow analysis (such as this study) to be applied to placements, not just rights issues. Second, ASX should continue ...