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SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... the biggest risk.... We want to see them get to a suitable standard where they're managing the finance, the contract payments are coming through and they're in a comfortable position." Doyle said this was a valuable part of the package for Iman Operations ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Stephen Harper's June 2013 announcement that Canada would adopt a G8 initiative requiring mining companies to disclose payments it makes to governments. Canada's Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, said in a statement last week that the government ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... seek to use its powers to require companies to reduce their prices in the future to compensate customers for previous payments made that include provision for costs associated with this ultimately unrealised liability, or to require the refund of such ...

Publish What You Pay to take case to new government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... legislation we wish to see in Australia when it comes to payment disclosure, and Canada has announced that they will bring in payments disclosure." Earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favour of a new Transparency and Accounting Directive. ...

Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... bribery certification", 13% reported engaging in collective action and 22% reported recording instances of facilitation payments and gifts. In human right, 72% said a human rights policy was within the overall code and 53% said it was within supplier ...

Corporate governance guidelines on agenda ahead of AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... the company; the payment of dividends to executives on unvested - and therefore unearned -incentive shares; retention payments made without a clear, or robust, rationale; termination payments that provide reward for mediocre performance, or failure ...

Bush Heritage Australia fund pays farmers for conservation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... period of 10 years, according to Bush Heritage Australia. The stewardship agreements will then make annual performance payments for meeting conservation targets, with the intention to roll over for five-year terms. Landowners will also receive conservation ...

Publish What You Pay renews call for mandatory disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... and large privately owned oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish country by country and project by project payments over â,¬100,000 to governments wherever they operate. This brings the EU in line with the US Dodd-Frank Act section 1504 ...

EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
Transparent disclosure of payments made by extractive companies to the countries they operate is not an end goal, should be conflated with broader definitions of good governance, and needs to be communicated more effectively to a broader range of stakeholders. ...

Australia to consider country-level payment disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
The Australian government will consider whether mining companies should be made to disclose the payments they make on a country-by-country basis after evaluating the results of the Australian pilot of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ...

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Green moves: Aware Super, Minderoo Foundation

ELIZABETH FRY
CareSuper hired an ESG specialist from a rival, while Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation appointed an executive director of effective philanthropy.

Macquarie AM takes over Island Green Power

KARREN VERGARA
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is now the owner of renewable energy developer Island Green Power, scooping up the remaining 50% stake.

Palliser Capital hits out at Rio Tinto board

ANDREW MCKEAN
Palliser Capital has vowed to continue pressing for governance reform at Rio Tinto after its shareholder resolution calling for an independent review of the miner's dual-listed company structure fell short at the group's annual general meeting.

ISSB looks to ease Scope 3 disclosure requirements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON
The International Sustainability Standards Board has proposed changes to requirements under IFRS S2 to offer clarity around existing reliefs and provide further relief in relation to specific Greenhouse Gas emissions disclosures.

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