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Considering the first 20 years of the Global Reporting Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... nascent sustainability reporting movement and turned it into a global phenomenon. There have been ideas around social accounting since the 1970s, but it wasn't until the GRI took on the job of developing a framework with a multi-stakeholder process that ...

ASX100 CEO pay remains below 2009 peak: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... realised pay for CEOs, which they define as "the actual value they receive from equity incentives vesting, not the accounting values required to be disclosed under regulatory requirements." The report found that four ASX100 CEOs earned more than $20 ...

New Forests expands on forestry sector's role in investment, bio-economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... portfolios. So as a business, we have active investment in forest carbon investment projects, and we also have carbon accounting that we do for our clients." New Forests also pursues restoration/conservation projects and seeks to leverage timber products ...

Removing complicity in modern slavery?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... is a researcher and academic from the University of South Australia. Katherine holds a First Class Honours Degree in Accounting and a PhD in environmental management accounting. Her research interests include but are not limited to, environmental accounting ...

State Street, TruValue Labs to partner in development of AI-assisted ESG research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Street and TruValue Labs will partner to promote the development of ESG data solutions according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework. Dan Gerard, head of Advisory Solutions for Asia Pacific at State Street Global Exchange ...

Number of culturally diverse women ASX leaders "extremely low": DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... companies against broader demographics in Australia, said Shireenjit Johl, associate professor in the Department of Accounting, Deakin University. The researchers found that, based on 2015 statistics, if ASX directors were 100 people, approximately 2 ...

MSCI benchmarks Australian companies against SDG revenue generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... the fact that the Australian companies in the MSCI World Index skew towards to sectors - materials and financials, accounting for 59% of the Australian peer set revenue. Those two industry sectors have "among the lowest sustainable impact involvement. ...

GRI Global Sustainability Standards Board appoints chair, new members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... been appointed to the GGSB - Evan Harvey, director of corporate responsibility at Nasdaq, Kenton Swift, professor of accounting and distinguished faculty fellow, University of Montana, Michel Washer, deputy chief sustainability officer, Solvay, Julia ...

Putting Sustainable Beef on the Table

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... is a researcher and academic from the University of South Australia. Katherine holds a First Class Honours Degree in Accounting and a PhD in environmental management accounting. Her research interests include but are not limited to, environmental accounting ...

Escala Partners choose Ownership Matters to provide proxy advisory research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... that environmental and sustainability, while not uncorrelated with governance, is different," she said. "Governance is accounting standards, remuneration, and board tenure. Really what we had in mind with our relationship with OM was to, as the first ...