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Westpac signs on to Soft Commodities Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Westpac Group has become a founding signatory to the Soft Commodities Compact, a banking industry initiative aiming to help clients achieve zero net deforestation by 2020. The Soft Commodities Compact has been developed by the Banking Environment Initiative ...

CDP, FirstCarbon Solutions sign expanded partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... and provided guidance to help organisations track and improve environmental performance." FCS is CDP's exclusive supply chain program scoring partner, and they are also responsible for the Nordic, Benelux, India and Australia/New Zealand regions. As ...

AMP Capital increases focus on corporate succession planning

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... for investors over the long term," Halliday said. "We look at the environment, we look at the social issues like supply chain, and we look at the governance. Leadership is one of those issues we consider, particularly for companies where the business ...

AMP Capital busts ESG myths

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... not always found in financial statements, such as occupational health and safety performance, corporate culture and supply chain management, Carlsson-Sweeny said in the paper. "The proportion of a company's value that is derived from intangible assets ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... transition to the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 guidelines, defining and reducing environmental and social risks in the supply chain and defining the social value metrics of community investment programs, according to expert practitioners. Leeora ...

CDP: progress stalling on supply chain emissions reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... in their supply chains, according to research from CDP and Accenture. In Collaborative Action on Climate Risk, the supply chain report of 2013-14, 2,868 companies supplying 64 supply chain program member companies provided information. This constitutes ...

Kmart, Pacific Brands increase Bangladesh disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... publish the locations of its supplier factories in Bangladesh has been welcomed as a new level of transparency around supply chain risk. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, AMP Capital Target, which, like Kmart, is owned by Wesfarmers, will follow suit and disclose ...

More Australian companies report corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... quality." KPMG noted that only 46% of Australian companies identify social or environmental impacts across their supply chain, meaning that improved management and governance in this area needs to be addressed. "The surprising increase in Asia Pacific ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... and potential reward in timber products is the increasing focus on certification and country-of-origin labeling for supply chain assurance, said MaryKate Hanlon, manager - sustainability, research, and communications at New Forests Asset Management. ...

Looking for social, economic return by creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia and figure out how that was relevant to us, particularly in a market where we don't have access to the entire supply chain," she said. "We started talking to people, talking to employees, suppliers, customers about what this means and how this ...