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John Colvin elected chair of international directors network

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Director Institutes (GNDI). GNDI is an international partnership of nine corporate director organisations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Colvin was unanimously elected ...

Environmental, operating risk to unconventional oil projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... catastrophic events, such was the case with the latest major marine hydrocarbon spills off the coasts of Australia, US, China and Brazil over the last four years." Statoil and BG are best positioned to manage associated environmental and social impacts ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The governments of Brazil, Denmark, France and South Africa have joined in an initiative to commit to corporate sustainability reporting, in support of paragraph 47 of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development's outcome document. The four governments ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... "Australia's target represents a target which is broadly compliable with the likes of the US, Japan, Europe, China and Brazil - in other words, a large chunk of global emissions. On this basis, there's' little danger that Australia is stepping out in ...

Pacific Hydro reduces carbon footprint 37%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... South America." Pacific Hydro produces renewable energy from a portfolio of wind farm and hydro power assets in Australia, Brazil and Chile. The company sells and trades electricity, electricity derivative products and energy-related environmental products ...

GRI and ISO agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... also support and promote each other in initiatives related to sustainable development, such as the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in 2012, and in other programmes by organizations such as the United Nations Global Compact, the Organization for Economic ...

OECD guidelines to promote more responsible business conduct

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... guidelines are a non-binding code of conduct agreed to by the 34 OECD member countries and eight other countries - Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Peru and Romania. "The business community shares responsibility for restoring growth ...

Pacific Hydro to trade carbon credits from Chilean hydro project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... double in size over the next five years but how we spread our investments over our core markets of Australia, Chile and Brazil will be very much dependant on local policies that encourage clean energy deployment as well as a price on carbon." Grant pointed ...

UN PRI rolls out mandatory fees, expanded agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... address the different issues with the local signatories. You've got a very diverse group of signatories - PRI is strong in Brazil and South America, strong in Oceania. We need to support those regions and then you've got the need to develop regions in ...
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