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ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Stakeholders are asking for more transparency from sustainability reports, particularly around governance issues, according to research from the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Reporting (ACCSR). Leeora Black ACCSR has issued a report, Materiality ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Sustainability reports provide external parties such as investors the opportunity to assess a company's performance to long term goals, and provides stakeholders with an opportunity to engage with the process of achieving sustainable targets, said panellists ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... companies to report sustainability through on channel rather than two or three. There were 51 standalone sustainability reports in 2012, down from 57 in 2011. Of that, 33 were structured to the GRI and 24 were announced to the ASX, the report found. ...

Companies should present negative sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... impacts on the economy, environment and society, as well as the 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 ...

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 ...