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AGL Energy joins We Mean Business Coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... corporate engagement on climate policy, will report climate change engagement on climate policy, and align with the UN Global Compact's Business Leadership Criteria on Carbon Pricing as part of its commitments, the company said. "We are heading towards ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... account for their fair share of carbon emissions." To assist in the setting of emissions reductions targets, CDP, UN Global Compact, the World Resources Institute and the WWF are developing sectoral decarbonisation methodologies that will help individual ...

Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative issues communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... stakeholders including the board of directors, senior leaders, and employees," said Gavin Power, deputy director, UN Global Compact. "Our partner exchanges are already using it to start an internal conversation about their role in sustainable development ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... baseline. This has been driven by a combination of many factors and recent events like Rana Plaza, but also the UN Global Compact and its intentions. They released a paper last year about it, examining how global governments/nations have less power in ...

PRI announces new Advisory Council members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... service providers), two permanent UN representatives (from the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact), and an appointed chair. It represents the PRI's global signatory base, with reserved positions for each category of ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... right), CEO of Catholic Super speaks at a press conference earlier this week at the UN Climate Summit on the UN Global Compact's "Caring for Climate" initiative. Pictured from left: Nick Nuttall (moderator), head of communications and outreach and spokesperson ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... of approaches for clients. "There is a certain amount of commonality," Bowers said. "We look closely at the UN Global Compact and we introduce those core themes across those funds that have an ESG screen, but when you're talking to the individual asset ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... despite the fact that we have well established institutions such as the Global Reporting Initiative and the UN Global Compact, practitioners at the coal face are frustrated with the slow pace of change, the lack of leadership at the top and the public ...

Australian mining companies report on human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Laos. Its major shareholder, China Minmetals, is a signatory to the UN Global Compact. The BHP Billiton case study reports on how the company implemented a plan to conduct human rights impact assessments ...

GRI, UN Global Compact, WBSCD to collaborate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... action on sustainable development goals." GRI noted that its G4 framework includes specific references to the UN Global Compact Ten Principles and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, "making it easier for organizations to understand the ...