| | | Ministers from countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and developing economies have agreed to a new set of guidelines to promote more responsible business conduct by multinational enterprises (MNEs). |
| | | | A study of five Australian organisations, including Blackmores and Woolworths, has shown that companies that invest in sustainable business operations and incorporate ESG factors into their financial reporting are seeing returns on investment much sooner ... |
| | | | ANZ has released an interim corporate responsibility report for the financial year, highlighting progress in training staff for screening clients based on sensitive sector policies and reviewing investment portfolios against UNPRI guidelines, but also ... |
| | | | The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) have drafted a set of reporting principles so that financial services companies can benchmark, measure and address the employment gender divide. |
| | | | More than 60% of companies surveyed in a global KPMG report say they have a strategy for corporate sustainability, with cost reduction a key rationale and a primary focus on the environmental side, particularly on resource and energy efficiency. |
| | | | The Global Reporting Initiative is developing sustainability reporting guidelines for the oil and gas sector, to be used by organizations for measuring and reporting on the economic, environmental, social, and governance dimensions of their activities ... |
| | | | Miners in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales have engaged with stakeholders by commissioning a stakeholder survey to start a dialogue on the impacts of coal mining. The survey, commissioned by the New South Wales Minerals Council (NSWMC) shows ... |
| | | | The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has appointed Gerard Noonan president and Trish Donohue deputy president at their quarterly committee of management meeting this week. |
| | | | Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the body that provides the most commonly accepted framework for producing sustainability reports, has launched the process that will result in the next generation of GRI guidelines. |
| | | | Woodside Petroleum Ltd shareholders - including signatories to the UNPRI - have rejected a resolution that would have amended the corporate constitution to require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for ... |
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