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FSC, ACSI release ESG reporting guide for ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... biodiversity. Under the social heading, the guide addresses workplaces health and safety, human capital management, corporate conduct (e.g. bribery and corruption) and stakeholder management/license to operate. For each sub-heading, the guide lays out ...

ANZ files report for United Nations Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Social Accountability International 'Business principles for countering bribery'. The bank also pointed to its "Code of Conduct and Ethics and supporting policies, such as our Anti-Bribery Policy and our Global Fraud and Corruption Policy provide a framework ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... for the first time and we also joined the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). The goal of GRESB is to conduct a survey of the sustainability practices of fund managers in the real estate industry in order to reduce the sector's environmental ...

ASIC urges additional executive remuneration disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has highlighted four areas where ASX listed companies can provide more clarity on remuneration arrangements for their directors and executives. ASIC reviewed 60 remuneration reports of ASX300 ...

Ceres, Tellus Institute to design sustainability ratings standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Ceres and Tellus Institute have launched an initiative to create a new, single ratings standard for sustainability performance of companies. The Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR) will be modelled on the Global Reporting Initiative ...

Swan: carbon price vital for first-rate, first-world economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Putting a price on carbon emissions is the only way to drive investment in cleaner energy innovation, and failing to do so would condemn Australia to becoming "an old-world, high-polluting technological backwater," Treasurer Wayne Swan said in a speech ...

OECD guidelines to promote more responsible business conduct

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Development (OECD) and developing economies have agreed to a new set of guidelines to promote more responsible business conduct by multinational enterprises (MNEs). The updated Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises state that MNEs should respect human ...

Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
Chi Woo, KPMG There is growing acceptance that Australian companies should report ESG factors to their shareholders, and a call by stakeholders for greater depth and clarity in the information reported. Sustainability reporting has been hampered by ...

Australian companies asked to disclose water exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
Australian institutional investors have for the first time asked 60 publicly listed companies to disclose their water exposure, but are not yet convinced that exposure to water scarcity will have a material impact on investments in the medium term ...