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Northern Trust names new global head of ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Trust Asset Management. "Expertise in ESG investing is integral to Northern Trust's comprehensive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) platform, and the appointment of Mamadou-Abou Sarr to this new role underscores our commitment to these principles ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Progress in integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Australia has been too little and too slow, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR). Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate ...

Sustainability reporting a source of key business value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... academic body of research has demonstrated the overall links between a strong demonstration of corporate social responsibility and positive generation of shareholder value, it is still very much necessary to make those links explicit to individual CEOs ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... programs, according to expert practitioners. Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility These themes are interrelated and draw in other issues, including policy uncertainty around how carbon will be priced ...

Looking for social, economic return by creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... scalable way to answer social challenges, after a corporate meeting in Japan in 2012 on the question corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how Hitachi could use its products and services to "address the needs and challenges of society," Cobourn said. ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... but for us, the value is really about articulating the business case so that others can see that corporate social responsibility isn't a nice thing to have, it's not about a charity or giving money away, it's actually about doing good in the communities ...

ACCSR appoints Jonathan Dutton as non-executive director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) has appointed Jonathan Dutton as non-executive director. Dutton is the former head of The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPSA), which he led as founding managing director ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... evaluate those risks. "What we're encouraging investors to do is join the dots as what they see as [corporate social responsibility] CSR on the one hand, and what the practices are as international companies on the other," said Helen Szoke, Oxfam Australia ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Further, the report said that corporate boards need to reframe climate change risk, moving from a corporate social responsibility (CSR) remit and into a key strategic issue. "The large corporate and transnationals are so far ahead and the oil, gas and ...

UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) are the most frequently recognised corporate social responsibility (CSR) instrument, according to a survey by the European Commission. The European Commission surveyed public CSR statements ...