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Elders seeking new markets for live cattle export

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... throat so badly in the middle of the year," Jackman said at the AGM. "But we continue to operate to those Australian standards, and now all our live operated and managed, to what is called ESCAS which is one of those great works to come out of Canberra ...

Presima joins Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Presima. "At Presima, we believe that by focusing on the long term nature of real estate assets and by utilizing new standards of measurement, we make better decisions with respect to our investments. In addition to assessing risk and return objectives ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... policies, compared to 40% of global peers. "One reason more ASX 200 firms perform better with respect to health and safety standards may be because they are often the first LHR issue companies start with when they are motivated to engage on issues in ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... has an investment universe of 240-270 ASX-listed stocks, noting that not every ASX300-listed company meets the firm's standards for investment, which includes evaluating a company's management quality, indebtedness and earnings, among other metrics. ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... production is relocated to a facility with higher emissions intensity or more generally less stringent environmental standards." The report notes that in Australia, initial capital investment is high for fossil fuels, non-ferrous metals, iron ore and ...

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 ...