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Publish What You Pay campaigns for payments transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... investigations into which companies paid what to the government. That's a risk." To that end, PWYP is briefing the investment community on its work. Last year, Spoors presented to Citigroup in Sydney, and at the end of this month, will meet with the ...

KPMG: agribusiness needs national food policy framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... also represents a fundamental change in the relationship between the population that lives on the coast and the farming community, concentrated in the interiors, Napier said. This means that the agribusiness sector has to develop products and sell them ...

Australian Ethical appoints Louise Herron director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Bank and Carnegie Wylie. She has also been a partner at Minter Ellison. Herron has extensive involvement with the arts community in Australia including as chair of Belvoir Street Theatre. She was recently appointed chair of the Major Performing Arts ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), spoke in the same panel discussion of the potential for community finance to generate positive financial return for investors as well as achieve social outcomes. DEEWR oversees the AU$20m ...

Managing regulatory impacts priority for CSR practitioners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... possible drivers of CSR practices, innovation ranked ninth, well behind drivers such as strengthening brand, meeting community expectations, commitments to international standards/ frameworks, risk reduction and enhancing ability to attract and retain ...

Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... integrating ESG factors and pursuing active ownership," Kirton said. "There is still much work to be done by the investment community to fully integrate responsible investment practices. We would expect the number of highly rated strategies to increase ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... but most of that is focused on long term property valuation. Those aspects have been taking on board by the financial community, but they need to look broader, particularly to the social/community aspect of sustainability." Integrated reporting discloses ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... that investors could be hit by economic costs of carbon emission policies up to US$8tr by 2030. If the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... necessarily think about. The work will be to translate social issues into the 'so-what'. If you talk about Indigenous community engagement and how it impacts on delays or inability to get permits for mining sites, that's a so-what. Privacy is another ...

CSIRO: engagement increases wind farm development approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
Actual and perceived costs and benefits of wind farms can be influenced by "design, implementation and community engagement processes", according to a study by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The CSIRO Energy ...