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Conduct risk a concern for financial services sector: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... variety of sources, including consumer complaint websites, reports to financial ombudsmen, independent staff reviews and reporting by companies themselves on conduct policies. This forms the basis for engagement with boards and senior executives, he ...

Australia to implement EITI standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... applicability. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is an international set of standards for transparency in reporting in the oil, gas and mining sectors. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia ...

GRI, UN Global Compact renew partnership, collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the UN Global Compact have renewed their collaboration for another three years. In announcing their renewed memorandum of understanding, the GRI and UN Global Compact will focus on supporting the United Nations ...

GRI, Danish Institute for Human Rights collaborate on reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) will collaborate to promote sustainability reporting in a partnership announced at the 5 th GRI Global Conference. GRI and DIHR's collaboration comes as part of global ...

PRI considering integration of Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... that a part of our base were already thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals and thinking about their annual reporting and how they were going to report against them, themselves. We've also done a mapping within our organisation, within the ...

CFSGAM publishes ninth responsible investment report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... governance (ESG) risks. In the 2016 report, CFSGAM outlined its evolving approach to climate change disclosure. Instead of reporting on a carbon footprinting basis, the active equity teams are instead disclosing fossil fuel and non-fossil fuel exposures ...

Materiality analysis helps define sustainability issues: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... materiality analysis is important to define "the most important sustainability issues," according to research from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and RobecoSAM. GRI and RobecoSAM have published Defining What Matters: Do companies and investors ...

Tax transparency an ESG consideration for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... the system to put that in place at the moment. Globally, again through the OECD, we're going to see country by country reporting of taxation for companies. That will be a significant." The information exchange between tax authorities is not going to ...

LQRA to deepen verification collaboration with CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... CDP's verification working group. "Independent verification is fast becoming an integral part of global corporate carbon reporting, and LRQA's independent sustainability and climate data verification services lend support to CDP's aim of putting relevant ...

Companies advised to stress test climate change scenarios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... should be seen as core business for them." Some Australian companies such as Westpac and AGL have made commitments around reporting and management, which Connor called a welcome development. "It's a very welcome development and overdue and others are ...