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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 ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... and business model. The aim of the IIRC is to develop a reporting framework that organisations use to bring together "material information about an organization's strategy, governance, performance and prospects in a way that reflects the commercial ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... your company on its path of continual improvement," said Andre Morony, Australian Ethical chair, in the letter. "The material that these former employees have circulated to you in the guise of 'concerned' shareholders is misleading and inaccurate and ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Only 14% of ASX200 companies have formal policies addressing labour and human rights issues, despite the index's heavy weighting towards sectors with high frequency and/or severity of labour and human rights controversies, according to a new report ...