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Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... and metals industries. Members include BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Newmont and Minerals and Metals Group. See Also: Transparency improving around miners' ESG reporting

Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... said Nils Kok, a professor at Maastricht University and co-coordinator of GRESB. "The ultimate goal is to increase transparency in energy efficiency and sustainability practices in the real estate sector. For institutional investors, it's quite common ...

Chartered Secretaries advise EU to use comply or explain codes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... the paper, the commission examined the efficacy of using an if not-why not approach to corporate disclosures and transparency. The paper discussed implementing such a system, already in place for companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The ...

ANZ files report for United Nations Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Global Anti-Bribery policy is based on Australian and international legislation and best practice, including the Transparency International & Social Accountability International 'Business principles for countering bribery'. The bank also pointed to its ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... managers in the real estate industry in order to reduce the sector's environmental footprint and encourage greater transparency. I have also joined the Advisory Board for GRESB. So they [GRESB] will be doing that on our behalf, and that will cover our ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... improvements in ESG related activities. In particular, the firm discussed its participation in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). CFSGAM became an EITI signatory in 2009 and in 2010 focused on its participation in the body, which ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... investment decisions and operations is "immature". "It's very immature and very few funds are very good at providing transparency. About half the funds in Australia don't qualify for consideration, to begin with," he said. "Very few funds get it right ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... gradual 6. be simple and effective 7. support low-emission base-load generation technology development. See Also: Transparency improving around miners' ESG reporting

New water accounting standard to measure quantity, rights and obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... and different industries, public or private sector, and that is important because it gives the accountability and transparency that we're looking for in this area," said Mark Shying, senior policy adviser in external reporting at CPA Australia. "The ...

Finsia drafts principles to disclose, address gender divide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... independent research firm Corporate Analysis Enhanced Responsibility (CAER) to author Promoting gender equity through transparency, a report examining the representation of women in Australia's financial services industry. The report notes that between ...