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Carbon tax regime to affect liability for joint ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... as well, Anderson said. "In the case of an incorporated joint venture the old CPRS proposal was that the majority shareholder, as the holding company of the incorporated joint venture, would take 100% of the carbon liability, although it could then pass ...

PUMA's environmental P&L reporting: a model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... the initial EP&L results, Jochen Zeitz, chairman and CEO of PUMA and chief sustainability officer PPR, PUMA's major shareholder, said: "[g]aining a better understanding of the source of the natural goods and services PUMA relies on and the declining ...

ASIC urges additional executive remuneration disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... recommended that companies disclose information about targets or the setting of targets that is sufficient to enable the shareholder to assess whether performance conditions have been appropriately set. The ASIC review further recommended that if part ...

"Two Strikes" for directors legislation passes Parliament

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Shareholders in Australian companies have vastly increased power to over executive remuneration under legislation that will take effect in July. The Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Director and Executive Remuneration) Bill 2011 ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... funds that could support the votes that we want to either be successful, or at least get up to the 10 or 15% of the shareholder vote, and that would be an ideal area. It's not the intent to out or embarrass or to aggravate companies. The reason we're ...

CAMAC releases review of executive remuneration governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Companies should give a general description of their executive remuneration governance framework, but should be permitted to withhold commercially sensitive information pertaining to performance conditions and should not be required to use accounting ...

Global Reporting Initiative launch process for new standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the body that provides the most commonly accepted framework for producing sustainability reports, has launched the process that will result in the next generation of GRI guidelines. GRI is calling on its network of ...

Woodside shareholders reject carbon disclosure resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. The resolution was tabled by the Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group, which represents 109 Woodside shareholders holding at least 12 shares each. The company had opposed the motion and ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Rio Tinto reported falling injury frequency rates, a year-on-year uptick in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity and a 40 per cent increase in community contributions against a backdrop of record US$14bn in underlying earnings and falling debt in ...

ANZ reviewing "sensitive sector" policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... corporate advisory and capital markets. The process and outcomes of the review will be reported in ANZ Bank's 2011 shareholder and corporate responsibility review and on their website.