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Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... year was the first year in which publicly listed companies were required to report on a new set of corporate governance standards including sustainability and integrated reporting. In the first year of "apply or explain" in regards to the 75 principles ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... you as an ESG2, and as we have our quarterly meetings, we'd like to hear you discuss how you're working on this." The standards are stringent - for example, taking the particular sub-set of Australian equities strategies, around 6-7% of all rated strategies ...

MSCI launches ESG platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... the globe," said Remy Briand, managing director and global head of index and ESG research at MSCI. "Our aim is to set standards for the ESG market place by providing products and services to help clients integrate ESG factors into their investment processes ...

Deloitte, GRI to develop new program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... integrated reporting, the XBRL standard becomes a crucial enabler for information architectures and the design of reporting standards. In recognition of GRI's leading role in sustainability reporting, we are happy to support GRI's XBRL program. As we ...

International Integrated Reporting Committee seeks pilot test participants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... pilot program to test IIRC's integrated reporting framework. The IIRC is developing a set of integrated reporting (IR) standards that will link an organization's strategy, governance and financial performance with the ESG context in which it operates. ...

GRI releases airport operator sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... covered. See Also: GRI developing oil and gas sector reporting guidance Global Reporting Initiative launch process for new standards

New water accounting standard to measure quantity, rights and obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
The Water Accounting Standards Board (WASB) is in the process of developing the Australian Water Accounting Standard (AWAS), which will quantify information about water, rights and other claims to water, and obligations against water. The preliminary ...

CAMAC releases review of executive remuneration governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... commercially sensitive information pertaining to performance conditions and should not be required to use accounting standards methodology in remunerations, according to a review of executive remuneration by the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee ...

OECD guidelines to promote more responsible business conduct

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... respect human rights in every country in which they operate. Companies should also respect environmental and labour standards, and have appropriate due diligence processes in place to ensure this happens. These include issues such as paying decent wages ...

KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... analysis more difficult. The most widely accepted set of guidances are the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), but their standards are not an absolute. "GRI, for example, has weighed in at a sectoral level and that's helping the agenda, but in terms of ...