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Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... also called for new coal seam gas mining exploration licenses to be halted until scientific assessments are brought in. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson told an interviewer on ABC Radio that while coal seam gas mining is not a new industry, the fast ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... undertake a pilot of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), with Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson announcing that the government will provide AU$12.7m to support EITI's activities. EITI was launched ...

Dean Paatsch launches new governance advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... "It's not every stock, and not every issue, but what we think is material. The idea here is that we have to spread the resources to work year-round, rather than just bulk up for AGM." Investor Voice subscribers will "underwrite" a research programme ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the information needed to make informed decisions." The GHG Protocol is a collaborative body developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The Corporate Value Chain and Product Life ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... regime and can plan accordingly for launch on 1 July 2012. Grant Anderson Grant Anderson, a partner in the energy and resources group at Allens Arthur Robinson, said that the focus of attention now would be on the promulgation of regulations to implement ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... really interesting to go into the policies that companies have and see how well developed they are, in terms of human resources, risk management, etc. Is it that those companies have more robust policies and governance overall in everything that they ...

Copper producer joins International Council on Mining and Metals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... communities," said Diego Hernandez, president and CEO of Codelco. "For Codelco, it is no longer enough to deliver the resources that benefit all Chileans, we must also play an active role in improving international sustainability standards. This is our ...

GRI releases guidance for reporting on ecosystem services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... suggests indicators to assess and report their impacts on ecosystem services, including nature and amount of natural resources harvested, produced, traded and/or consumed, such as crops, fish, timber, fibre, by the organization in relation to safe ecological ...

Integrated reporting discussion paper released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Project, the Global Reporting Initiative, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the World Resources Institute, the World Intellectual Capital Initiative, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Climate Disclosure Standards ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... time. Agriculture funds, water funds, renewable energy funds and the like encourage the most efficient use of these resources and recognise that they are scare resources that are going to have an increasing value. We want to be a part of capturing that ...