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Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... organisations. Cameron Neil, Net Balance The merger will see both entities increase the range of their sustainability supply chain consulting services across private and government organisations in Australia. The merger was recently finalised and follows ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... ROI-positive investments in projects, and a letter sent to 159 companies in industries with potentially significant supply chain emissions requesting that they demonstrate actions regarding emissions in the supply chain. Now in its second year, CDP Carbon ...

One third of ASX100 companies assure sustainability reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... their value chain to understand their upstream and downstream impacts, which will cause an adjustment of boundary and supply chain reporting, and will cause companies to focus on human rights disclosures, said Victoria Whitaker, head of Focal Point Australia ...

Commonwealth Bank reports increased customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability agenda, CBA reported that it had used its centralised procurement system to monitor sustainability risks in the supply chain. In May 2012, the bank began assessing suppliers by asking them to provide information on sustainability practices ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... challenges. This is where companies that have transparency regarding sustainability challenges come in. We see that in the supply chain. We see that from companies getting questions form their customers about procurement practices and human resource ...

Australian infrastructure underprepared for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Australia's infrastructure is not equipped to handle more frequent, extreme weather events and other impacts of climate change, with the electricity, road and rail and financial services sector underprepared, according to a report from The Climate Institute. ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Ashanti and Xstrata, are also members of ICMM. There are also increases in the number of companies that are aware of supply chain risks - 71% could state whether or not they are exposed to supply chain risk, up from 62% in 2011. But 29% of respondents ...

Wesfarmers publishes 2012 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... from 7.7m in 2011. That figure encompasses scope one, two and three emissions as well as transport emissions in the supply chain and Wesfarmer's percentage of joint venture/investment emissions. Energy consumption also fell in energy, at 30 petajoules ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... So we focus not only on reducing financial risk - but also about addressing technology risk and concerns about the supply chain, installation risk and technical performance of equipment. For example, the small business product that we've got with FlexiGroup's ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... - developing policies and implementing action plans over a number of years." Stockland is also engaging with its supply chain on sustainability issues. In the 2012 financial year, the company "achieve[d] the specified annual level of procurement from ...