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NY's EIC on residential, commercial property energy upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... through efficiency upgrades are "equal to or greater than the cost of financing," Bregman said. "EIC's underwriting standards require projects to be cash flow positive, have an SIR (Savings to Investment) ratio greater than one and not be leveraged above ...

IIRC considers assurance of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... issues, and is hosting a series of forums around the world to consider the benefits and challenges of assurance on IR standards. The first forum is in Johannesburg on 20 August, hosted by the South African Institute of Directors (IoD) and the Independent ...

Australian Forestry Standard releases supply chain standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... not-for-profit public company which owns and manages the Australian Forest Certification Scheme (AFSC), built on two Australian Standards - AS4708, which deals with forestry management and AS4707, which deals with the chain of custody. Twenty five forest ...

CDSB consultation finds broad support for framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
There is broad support for an expanded reporting framework proposed by the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), but stakeholders are calling for more clarification on alignment. Earlier this year, CDSB released a draft version of an expanded reporting ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... and, if it does, how it manages or intends to manage those risks." "What's interesting from the corporate governance standards perspective is that most of the organisations that that publicly report data - both private and public corporations - subscribe ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... managers, in the wake of new regulations from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) around governance standards, including risk management. In the survey, 57% of funds do not currently have independent directors on their trustee boards. ...

GRI names Michael Meehan new chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... reporting. Ernst's accomplishments are myriad. They include the more than 5000 reporting organizations that use GRI's standards, as well as four generations of standards referenced in 23 countries, and the first class leadership team he has assembled ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... improving the city's energy security through investments in decentralised energy and implementing energy efficiency standards for new buildings. Our report found that, where companies had reported climate risks that posed extremely serious impacts to ...

ACSI lists ASX sustainability reporting leaders, laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... sustainability disclosures, which makes assessments with the goal of "promoting continuous improvement in reporting standards and practices across the market," the industry body said. "There has been some improvement, but there is still some way to go ...

GRI undergoing governance process to become standard setter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... standard setter for sustainability reporting. The changes will result GRI separating out its advocacy work from the standards-setting work and lead to the creation of new governing boards and processes. It is intended to strengthen the formal recognition ...