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Co-operatives "have role to play" in public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Co-operatives and mutuals have "a clear role" to play in the delivery of public services, according to a report commissioned by the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) and bankmecu. Melina Morrison, BCCM CEO (Photo courtesy of BCCM) ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... make is that some of these factors can drive us to addressing larger environmental issues. There are other issues, like the shift away from the US as the centre of the timber market universe. Markets are reorienting towards Chinese demand and the Asian ...

GRI, RAFI to collaborate on human rights reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... Rights (UNGPs). RAFI is an open, multi-stakeholder consultative group that is facilitated by a project team comprised of Shift, Mazars, and the Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN. GRI and RAFI recently signed a memorandum of understanding that will ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... also pushed bankmecu to change how it presents information at its annual general meetings, Walsh said. "We're starting to shift our AGM focus away from just reporting on statutory financials, which are backward looking, to talk about the elements of ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... substantial progress is being made in switching to renewable biological feedstock. These are important developments in terms of a shift to a low-carbon industry." The Climate Bonds Initiative, an investor-focused not-for-profit promoting large-scale ...

Sedex notes increasing demand for ethical procurement data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... with heads of procurement in an organisation, rather that with a head of sustainability. "We're seeing, an organisational shift as well now with procurements," Smith said. "Our IT accounts people are now dealing with the heads of procurement and not ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
An increasing number of investors have recognised that environmental, social and governance risks matter, one of the biggest changes that Ann Byrne has seen in her five years as chief executive officer of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Slightly more than a third of Australian consumer staples and consumer discretionary companies have a publicly disclosed supply chain labour and human rights (LHR) policy, and none of them have board oversight of LHR issues, according to research from ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... indicators on economic, environmental and social impacts that are material to their business. "There has clearly been a shift in the discussion," he said. "It is no longer only about how sustainability reporting can be valuable to a company. The answer ...

National Sustainability Council issues macro-theme report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... informed discussion about the future. We're used to having those discussions on economic indicators. What we at to do is shift the focus on to longer-term trends and broader indicators. We believe that this report can make a contribution to that." The ...