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Net Balance certified as a B Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Corporation, an international process that assesses a company's impact against a set of social and environmental performance standards. B Corp status is awarded by US-based non-profit B Lab, which evaluates potential companies for how they impact on ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... bills plus the margin. For environmental and social indicators, we are watching what's happening with IRIS reporting standards and starting to incorporate some of those into our reporting." Measuring social and environmental impacts have by and large ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting and then assurance gives that reporting credibility." The guidance is intended to provide assurance standards that can be used for internal value add as well, given that sustainability reporting can be used for internal benchmarking ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... enough. Only improved productivity - the income we earn for a unit of capital or labour - can raise per capita living standards. And our productivity has been going nowhere. In fact, it's been falling at 0.7% per year, for seven years now. Productivity ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... comparing apples to apples." The MCA Water Accounting Framework is intended to work in conjunction with other accounting standards and frameworks, including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Australian state and national regulatory standards and ...

One third of ASX100 companies assure sustainability reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... 44% of companies seeking third party assurance, while 21% used AA1000AS and 15% of assurance statements used the two standards in conjunction with each other. In a panel discussion following the presentation of the report, Kirsten Simpson, an associate ...

PRI publishes hedge fund responsible investment paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... England National Investing Bodies, the Environmental Investment Partnership, Harcourt Investment Consulting, Hedge Fund Standards Board, Hermes EOS, Highland Good Steward Management and Universities Superannuation Scheme. See Also: Q&A with James Gifford ...

Hermes Fund Managers launch quant ESG equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... resource that globally has more than AU$116bn in assets under advice. EOS analyses companies that breach international ESG standards, such as the UN Global Compact Principles. "The new global quantitative equities ESG strategy is a natural extension ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... report notes, however, that while climate change leaders in Australia continue to improve their disclosure quality, standards dare higher amongst leaders in the Global 500, US and UK companies. Australia's carbon disclosure leaders are unusual among ...

Environmental, operating risk to unconventional oil projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... hydrocarbon portfolios, and companies are operating in sensitive ecosystems and in jurisdictions with poor compliance standards, meaning that risk exposure may continue to increase, the MSCI ESG research report said. "With increased appetite for complex ...