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Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... positive effects - increasing Danish companies' international reputation and creating value for the companies and their stakeholders. These positive outcomes have in turn motivated more companies to address their Corporate Social Responsibility and to ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Cabinet is seeking comment on a discussion paper released this week. In the paper, the government asks for comment from stakeholders to see if environmental upgrade finance vehicles are necessary and effective in South Australia, and asked for submissions ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... information needs of investors (which include various types of investors with divergent needs) and those of other stakeholders," the IIRC said in the discussion paper. The IIRC summary noted that respondents expressed thoughts around the definition of ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... "Companies who have made the choice to proactively defend such rights as their own policy pledge to protect employees and stakeholders regardless of the status of national protections or the location of operations." See Also: Reports critique ASX companies' ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... answers on that. Companies should make their codes of conduct publicly available to talk about with investors and other stakeholders about how they manage ethical risks in the company. The number of complaints to media watchdogs has gone up, and it's ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... conduct staff engagement," O'Connor said. "Our next survey will be in 2012. It's important we get feedback from the stakeholders. We need them to tell us, and the survey tells us about engagement, disengagement and ambivalence."

Industry welcomes CEFC expert review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... maximise its funding as well as its tight time horizon - the CEFC is expected to operate for five years from 2013. Many stakeholders recommended to the review panel that the CEFC focus on addressing the underlying factors that tipped the balance against ...

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... countries to monitor how multinational corporations manage human rights impacts. There is also increasing pressure from stakeholders, including non-governmental organisations and shareholders, to engage with corporations on their human rights exposures ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... part of the learning for us," Scott said. "There are two reasons for us doing these things, connected to our main stakeholders, the clients that might benefit from the services and the donors and investors. For us, using SROI and SPM is about refining ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... people" and economic. Santos charted its material sustainability indicators with respect to significance to both stakeholders and to Santos. Four of those indicators - water resources, external stakeholder engagement, financial performance and new project ...