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Woolworths' employment, supply chain policies in 2011 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Nations Global Compact, under which participants enact a set of principles around the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption. In the 2011 financial year, the company invested AU$60m in learning and development training. ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... up financially." The paper presents sustainability as an integrated strategy, given the convergence of international standards towards integrated reporting and oversight, but they can be used with standalone sustainability strategies. In addition to ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... license obligations, according to ASIC. By making carbon credits financial products, traders are held accountable to all standards, including insider trading rule and market manipulation standards, Anderson noted. "The insider trading provisions do apply ...

Climate Bond Standard to screen green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Sean Kidney, chair of the Climate Bonds Initiative. The finalised text of the standard was approved by the Climate Bond Standards Board -the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the Natural ...

ANZ's employee engagement, net profit increases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... that it introduced its human rights standard in 2010, and in the first year of implementation, the bank reviewed their standards to ensure they reflected the human rights standard, defined the standards and acceptable behaviours of suppliers and integrated ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets and the Carbon Disclosure Project, has developed the International Standards and Certification Scheme for Climate Bonds, which is aimed at facilitate the development and use of climate bonds through a ...

Global Reporting Initiative calls for G4 public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... and GRI estimates it can 20 to 70 minutes to complete. See Also: Global Reporting Initiative launch process for new standards

Elders reports increased lost time injury frequency rate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... LITFR is attributed to the adoption of a new definition of LITFR. "The increase follows the adoption of new definitional standards, under which a safety event is more likely to qualify as a lost time injury," the company said. "The increase in LTI frequency ...

Low Carbon Australia relaunches Carbon Offset Guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... NGOs and individuals and includes information on offset prices, project descriptions and locations, and accreditation standards. This new Carbon Offset Guide has undergone a rigorous content review to ensure the website is an up-to-date tool for the ...

Three Australian companies to participate in IIRC program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... than 40 other leading global companies as participants in a pilot program initiative to test integrated reporting (IR) standards. The pilot program will consist of three stages - a dry run, where companies do a "walkthrough" of IIRC's framework and to ...