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Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... of businesses are talking action around energy efficiency, and it's four four main reasons," Smale said. "There's supply chain pressure they're encouraged to be seen to be green by their customers to help them with tenders. There are compliance reasons ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... products, steel products will probably rise. Then the costs that are passed on to you from people higher up in the supply chain. This is really how the carbon price will filter down throughout the economy. One of the really key, important, things that ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... profound revisions, we have to form working groups. At this moment we have five working groups. One of them, the Supply Chain Disclosure Working Group, started even before G4 because we knew this was a topic to be added to the next generation of the ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... automobiles, air freight and logistics, and road and rail. The second segment are 159 companies with the potential for large supply chain emissions reductions including internet and catalogue retail, multiline retail, specialty retail, food and staples ...

LGS select MSCI for ESG and carbon research, monitoring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... and measure the relative ESG exposure by sector and key ESG risks including water, carbon, health and safety, and supply chain. "We are delighted to be working with LGS to provide them with the tools they need to assess ESG and carbon emissions exposure ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... reporting guidelines like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and pressure from multinational organisations for supply chain members to disclose and manage ESG factors are moving Australian companies to increase their integrated reporting. But integrated ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Global businesses are increasingly integrating climate change strategies into their supply chain procurement guidelines, but suppliers' rates of reducing greenhouse gas emission are lower than their corporate clients, according to a Carbon Disclosure ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... through things like Ruggie's guidance, conversations with companies on how they manage human rights issues such as supply chain compliance, dealing with bribery and corruption issues, and basic compliance with Australian law." But Woods said that particularly ...

Companies testing labour, human rights supply chain standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
Nine companies have begun testing a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) assessing operational and reputational risks associated with labour and human rights factors in corporate supply chains. The KPIs have been developed with the Fair Labor Association ...

ETI to focus on collaborative supply chain initiatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... consumer goods", have identified supply chains within each category and will develop work programs for each category's supply chain. "Central to our thinking is a recognition of the need to tackle the underlying causes, not the symptoms, of poor working ...