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Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Calculating the value of the ecosystem in which a company operates can not only provide measures of the company's dependency on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk ...

Superannuation funds aware of ESG macro-impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... the company level, predominantly focused on alpha generation and preservation. Generally, it aims to ensure that all material ESG factors are considered when assessing company valuations," Domagala said. "However, market events over recent years have ...

Integrated reporting a tool to telling value creation story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... involvement from all the main internal stakeholders. There needs to be 'one view' of the business and consensus on one set of material issues that need to be addressed through one combined strategy." KPMG said it was too early to establish the way in ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... way to judge a company's assessment of the environment that it's operating in and to what extent it's identified what's material in their success or otherwise in achieving their business goals. It's really important information for us as investors because ...

La Trobe sustainability report discloses ESG action, targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... energy consumption and water use. "We tried really hard to give an honest account of our performance and identify our material omissions," Adams said at an event launching the sustainability report. "Some of the information reported in there doesn't ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR). Despite the majority of respondents viewing climate change as a material risk, the survey also finds that asset owners need to do more to translate climate-change -related investment policies, research ...

Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... assets and water liabilities, and a statement of changes in water assets and water liabilities. WASB said in explanatory material that AWAS can be used by water users, investors in water dependent enterprises and related parties "such as lenders, creditors ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... companies, and partly also that the materials sector has potential to significantly impact water quality and water is a material issue to many companies in the sector. Access to water is critical to many mining companies in particular... Many mining ...

British government to mandate LSE greenhouse gas disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. Principle 7 establishes how companies should disclose and communicate "material" business risks, including: operational, environmental, sustainability, compliance, strategic, ethical, reputation or ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... poor sustainability disclosures based on ACSI's metrics. ACSI's report found that companies often neglect to address material sustainability risks and provide little to no information on sustainability performance. The report found decreases across three ...