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SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... metrics into its corporate strategy for both internal cost reductions and as a source of corporate innovation, using a stakeholder body of executives and customers to gather information that feeds product development. The global company's focus extends ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Spirit Excellence Leadership Program available to new partners as well as existing partners. As part of an internal stakeholder survey, participants reported increased satisfaction with performance coaching, a key part of the program. The People Spirit ...

Industry welcomes CEFC expert review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... appropriately concessional cost of funds." Experts approved of the review panel's approach, which they said took on stakeholder's comments that the CEFC's optimal approach would be to address structural barriers to bringing in private investment in clean ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... are also members of the IIRC Working Group; Ernst represents the board in this working group. It's a little like our Stakeholder Council with lots of people representing different opinions with different goals and views on how to implement them. We have ...

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... on their human rights exposures and how they manage them. "There's hard law, soft law and further down the chain, stakeholder expectations, particularly from financiers," Nicolson said. "Financiers are increasingly coming to our clients and saying, 'we're ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... against each other, and may be dangerous as a benchmark. SROI is a metric that takes into account seven principles - stakeholder involvement, an understanding what changes as part of the scope, using financial proxies for indicators of materiality, not ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... with respect to significance to both stakeholders and to Santos. Four of those indicators - water resources, external stakeholder engagement, financial performance and new project development and acquisitions - were the most strongly rated by both Santos ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, and a member of the IIRC working group. "We didn't take a stakeholder focus," Simnett said. "There are a couple of reasons why that was done. The main way in which integrated reporting is ...

Companies should present negative sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... that stakeholders use sustainability reports. Contractors/suppliers, financial stakeholders an and employees are the stakeholder groups most likely to read all or most of sustainability reports, for the purpose of understanding their organisation's sustainability ...

Integrated reporting to provide analysis, innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Integrated reporting could act as a "steadying arm" to the invisible hand of the free market, said Jane Diplock, director, Singapore Exchange. Speaking at the Australian Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Conference on Sustainability and Integrated Reporting ...