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Corporate sustainability a vehicle for value creation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... according to Jonathon Hanks, a South African sustainability expert. "The thing is that many companies' sustainability reports tend to focus on managing negative impacts, rather than increasing social value and they're not for the most part core to strategy," ...

UNPRI writes letter to UNGC leaders and laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... between 2008 and 2011, the engagement resulted in an average 40.1% of laggards subsequently submitting their sustainability reports. That 40.1% has included firms such as BHP Billiton, Aker Solutions, Severn Trent, Merck Kga, Oriflame Cosmetics, The ...

GRI launches format to tag sustainability data in reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have released a new format for tagging data in sustainability reports that will make it easier for users to find and analyse information. GRI's new XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) taxonomy is an open-source ...

Henry Davis York reports increase in pro bono, energy and travel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... purchased energy, travel and paper usage in its 2011 sustainability report. Henry Davis York has published sustainability reports since 2008 and the firm sees sustainability as part of its business strategy. "Sustainability is now a pre-requisite for ...

Global Reporting Initiative launches sustainability database

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... companies' sustainability strategy, performance, and impacts on society and nature. The database features sustainability reports - both stand-alone and integrated - from institutions and companies around the world. Users can compare the level of companies' ...

ESG analysis now part of mainstream investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... be done because social factors require "fundamental research and more information than is available in sustainability reports and annual reports." While analysis of ESG factors in various ways and shapes is understood across asset classes such as listed ...

Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... African companies has found that 100 companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) have written sustainability reports based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidances for the 2010/2011 financial year, up from 86 the previous year. The ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... we look at the details, and that will give us an insight into the areas we want to pursue. Some of the sustainability reports will have the wrong activities, or the wrong complexion of the companies, so we wouldn't even be involved with them. The charter ...

ANZ publishes interim corporate responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... fine. From my perspective, I'd put ANZ in a category with 20 other [domestic companies] that produce good sustainability reports." Although Hunter Hall does not own ANZ stock in its portfolios, it does use ANZ as its banker, and as such, reviews their ...

GRI developing oil and gas sector reporting guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... process standards and quality expectations. Separately, GRI's released statistics for 2010 that show more sustainability reports overall and an increase of GRI guidelines - there was a 22% increase in the number of GRI reports worldwide registered in ...