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ACCSR to teach master class at GRI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) is one of six organisations chosen to run a master class at the Global Reporting Initiative conference in Amsterdam in May. Leeora Black Six GRI certified training partners have been ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
It is the goal of sustainability practitioners to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) to provide the company with processes and responsibilities to respond resiliently to both everyday interactions and to the extraordinary situations that ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Lack of organisational buy-in or commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the greatest single obstacle to its success, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR)'s annual review. The ACCSR's The State ...

ACCSR focus on responsible leadership in conference, report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
As companies integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their business strategies, the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) is analysing responsible leadership in its forthcoming annual conference and report into the ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... (Cape Town) and Utopies Consulting (Paris). He has worked with the United Nations and business in corporate social responsibility, and is one of the contributing authors to " The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) in Business and Enterprise ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... their stakeholders. These positive outcomes have in turn motivated more companies to address their Corporate Social Responsibility and to report on their sustainability performance. The Rio+20 Conference should inspire more governments and businesses ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Melbourne in Sydney in July. The workshops are held in conjunction with the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... use of shredding, comingled recycling and composting of organic material. The firm also includes corporate social responsibility as a category in performance reviews, the firm's competency framework and firm strategy. At Sydney-based Henry Davis York ...

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Framework. Domestic governments are also increasingly developing policies, coming through the corporate social responsibility space, that address this framework." Under Australian law, corporations have legal obligations around a variety of human rights ...

Companies should present negative sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... positive ones, with stakeholders who read sustainability reports telling the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) that they feel "anger, anxiety or concern" when reading a sustainability report. ACCSR analysed data it collected ...