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Westpac number one on global sustainability list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... term value for our customers, employees, shareholders and the community." Westpac recently outlined its sustainability strategy to 2017, and Westpac highlighted several areas of performance in 2013, including an 87% employee engagement score and the ...

Westpac discloses environmental, social, financial metrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... the banking group's performance against financial, social and environmental indicators based on its new sustainability strategy announced in February. The bank reported 2013 cash earnings of AU$7.097 billion, an 8% increase over 2012 and earnings per ...

CA Technologies: increased focus on IT energy consumption

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... for all of CA Technologies' software platforms, not just the ecoSoftware. Curtis says questions about sustainability strategy are the norm from companies based in Europe and for multinational corporations and increasingly common in other markets. "One ...

Net Balance/ECO-Buy merger looks to impact strategy, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... membership, consulting services, training, resources and events. Net Balance offers services around five areas - sustainability strategy and advice, climate change, environmental services, social and community investment and economics. On the cards for ...

Westpac focuses on demographics, environment in strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Westpac Group has focused on three priority areas in its 2013-2017 sustainability strategy -responding to shifts in demographic and cultural change, creating economic solutions to environmental challenges, and helping customers achieve sustainable financial ...

Drive to push corporate communication of ESG materiality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... two-thirds (66%) of CFOs reported they were "always" or "frequently" involved in driving execution of sustainability strategy in their organizations. More than half (53%) said their involvement had increased over the last year. More than three-fifths ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... is reached, but Woolworths has left the blood on the floor for all to see. There may have been a clear sustainability strategy and narrative at one point, but someone has come in over the top with all manner of loud irrelevancies, pictorial and otherwise. ...

Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... membership, consulting services, training, resources and events. Net Balance offers services around five areas - sustainability strategy and advice, climate change, environmental services, social and community investment and economics. The merger comes ...

LGS generating energy savings certificates from retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... energy savings certificates are viewed as a source of added return, rather than a central component to the sustainability strategy. "We're viewing it as an additional income stream that didn't appear in our business case," he said. "It's a good initiative ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... to local factors, said Karen Zwissler, head of sustainability for SAP Australia and New Zealand. This sustainability strategy has seen SAP feature in the Dow Jones Sustainability index for five consecutive years, Zwissler said. Part of SAP's corporate ...