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CAMAC releases review of executive remuneration governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... commercially sensitive information pertaining to performance conditions and should not be required to use accounting standards methodology in remunerations, according to a review of executive remuneration by the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee ...

OECD guidelines to promote more responsible business conduct

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... respect human rights in every country in which they operate. Companies should also respect environmental and labour standards, and have appropriate due diligence processes in place to ensure this happens. These include issues such as paying decent wages ...

KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... analysis more difficult. The most widely accepted set of guidances are the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), but their standards are not an absolute. "GRI, for example, has weighed in at a sectoral level and that's helping the agenda, but in terms of ...

GRI developing oil and gas sector reporting guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... governance bodies will review the content and the development process to make sure it complies with GRI's due process standards and quality expectations. Separately, GRI's released statistics for 2010 that show more sustainability reports overall and ...

Global Reporting Initiative launch process for new standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Related: Global push for "report or explain" on ESG Nominations open for GRI's Stakeholder Council GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... and related reputational issues, or explaining why they are not reporting that information. The JSE last year adopted standards requiring an if-not, why-not approach to integrated ESG reporting, and the discussion period for a guidance report on developing ...

Westpac targets 40 percent women in senior management by 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... is also focusing on driving diversity down the supply chain. "It's important to us that our suppliers share the same standards of sustainable business practices and continuous improvement as we do," the bank said. "We screen our suppliers before we engage ...

Australian companies fail on labour reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... stakeholders and how do we include them?" Banarra compared the reporting on offer to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards - the most commonly accepted guidelines around sustainability reporting. Many of the companies analysed profess to use ...

GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... practices. Compliance with GRI 3.1 is optional for companies that are already using GRI's 3.0 guidance, however when the new standards are promulgated in 2013, reporters will have two years to move to the new standards. GRI is also launching guidance ...

Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... information reported. Sustainability reporting has been hampered by a number of factors, including a lack of broadly used standards and the impact of the global financial crisis, which impacted on time and money that managers could devote to implementing ...