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Pacific Hydro reduces carbon footprint 37%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Fairy, Victoria, its Chilean fund, Creciendo Juntos, and its Brazilian community fund. The company also liaises with stakeholders on the visual and noise and infrasound impacts of wind farms and the impacts of hydro projects. Pacific Hydro notched up ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... oversight, but they can be used with standalone sustainability strategies. In addition to defining and surveying stakeholders, the report also discusses how financial professionals can map business risks and opportunities, incorporate sustainability ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... legislation provides a transitional period of seven months to "provide a transitional period of seven months to allow stakeholders sufficient time to comply with their new obligations before the licensing requirements commence," Treasury said in a statement ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... undertook a separate process to identify the societal issues we expect to become material for our operations and stakeholders over the next 30 years," the report said. "We focused on issues that are emerging, relevant to our role as a financial institution ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... investment, and management company, has identified 22 sustainability related issues that are material to the group and its stakeholders. The issue, which range from business conduct to supply chain, was the basis of its 2011 Corporate Responsibility ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Financial Reporting Council is looking at integrated reporting and will make a submission to the IIRC's proposal. "Stakeholders have raised questions about the practicalities of integrated reporting and the effective presentation of critical information ...

Global Reporting Initiative launches sustainability database

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... longer enough to get the full picture of a company's performance," said Ernst Ligteringen, GRI chief executive. "Stakeholders of all sorts want to take a company's sustainability performance into account too, to have an idea of the long-term viability ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... to water supplies, the risk of new and more costly regulation, and the social and reputational risks that come as stakeholders raise objections to coal seam gas. The political risks of coal seam gas manifested themselves again this week with independent ...

Variability in level of ASX100 supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... internal business risk, secondly it adds value to the business itself and thirdly it has the potential to benefit stakeholders (both individuals and companies) related to the supply chain." The report noted that supply chain disclosures by ASX100 companies ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... 2009," the report said. "The company has committed to be open in its dealings with the government regulators and other stakeholders in relation to its planned activities. AWE has maintained ongoing engagement with government, landowners and local communities ...