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Companies aware of Sustainable Development Goals: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... aware of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and many are planning strategic partnerships targeting material goals, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR)'s 8 th Annual Review of the State of ...

ARENA funds Southern Oil Refining biofuel lab pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... project, which will be based in Yarwun near Gladstone, will be designed to produce renewable diesel and jet fuels from plant material. The project will "inform the feasibility and design of a proposed commercial scale biorefinery," according to ARENA. ...

Companies obliged to consider climate change: Minter Ellison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... and opportunities associated with climate change. This doesn't mean that every risk associated with climate change is material to every corporation in every industry, but it is "increasingly difficult" for a company board to presume that climate change ...

Video: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... companies that breach global conventions on human rights carries greater reputational risk, which can potentially have a material impact on company earnings and portfolio returns. These violations, supply chain issues and modern slavery just some of ...

Companies "show variation" on ESG disclosures: Company Matters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... duties for listed companies, noted that the KPMG report found significant differences in the ways that companies disclosed material ESG risks in relation to Recommendation 7.4 in the third edition of the ASX Corporate Governance Council Principles and ...

Citi, Credit Suisse top ESG RA Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... governance issues such as executive remuneration were also nominated. "The need to define objectively what factors may be material in a sector, and how they can measurably affect the investment performance of individual companies one way or the other ...

Companies exposed to water scarcity risks: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Globally, companies that are exposed to water scarcity risks are managing those risks poorly, according to research from Sustainalytics. Sustainalytics has published Water Scarcity: Will Investors Be Left High and Dry?, which points to three key contextual ...

Materiality analysis helps define sustainability issues: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... (GRI) and RobecoSAM. GRI and RobecoSAM have published Defining What Matters: Do companies and investors agree on what is material?, which examined 129 sustainability reports from three sectors - mining, metals and electric utilities. The analysis found ...

Tax transparency an ESG consideration for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... part of an overall environmental, social and governance (ESG) approaches, but the extent to which tax transparency is material depends on investment beliefs and investment approaches. Investors, like governments and regulators around the world, are analysing ...

GRI releases drafts for first six GRI Standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published the first set of exposure drafts of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards) for public comment. GRI has released an initial set of six GRI Standards and have opened up a 90-day comment ...