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Fast fashion industry facing sustainability "inflection point": Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
Fast fashion garment brands globally as well as in Australia are facing a potential "inflection point" to their business model, with pressures from increased labour and environmental costs predicted to impact on how companies access factories overseas ...

Disconnects holding back gender diversity: EY report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
Although gender diversity is a governance issue for corporate boards globally, only 13% of executives from companies around the world expect a significant increase in the number of women in leadership roles in the next five years, according to a new ...

ESG integration continues to spread across Asia: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into investment processes continue to grow across Asia Pacific markets, but in diverse fashions and influenced by variable regulatory and market considerations, according to Ronnie ...

South Australia passes building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... legislation, now South Australia, we get cohesion happening across the three states, markets can function in a more liquid fashion. We have more councils coming on board in Victoria, and now the potential in South Australia as well." See Also: South ...

Role for custodian in ESG data analytics: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
Institutional investors throughout Asia are taking environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into account in their investment portfolios, and custodian BNP Paribas Securities Services are providing data analytical services to assist clients ...

AMP Capital identifies ESG risks to Australian retailers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... 1,100 people. Retailers have made some improvements - the AMP Capital paper notes that Kmart, Target, Big W and Specialty Fashion Group have signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. But many retailers have ethical sourcing policies ...

Australian mining companies report on human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... different human rights issues, but the commonality is that each company has committed to respecting human rights in a systemic fashion, said Richard Boele, a director of the Global Compact Network Australia. "What is common between them is the depth ...

EY: Direct Action Plan will offer opportunities for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... the abatement process under DAP, and there will be a need for robust methodologies that are approved in a streamlined fashion. What will drive abatement under the DAP is the price the economy can identify." The unwinding of the CPM will abolish the emissions ...

LGS joins Investor Statement on Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... can be useful." LGS, an investor in Wesfarmers, wrote the company after the airing of a ABC Four Corners investigation, Fashion Victims, which made allegations some Australian retailers were purchasing clothing from factories in Bangladesh with poor ...

CDP extends partnership with FirstCarbon Solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... and has built a system based on CDP's methodology to evalute and score CDP responses in a comprehensive, standardised fashion. The scores allow the 65 members of the CDP supply chain program to benchmark environmental performance, examine practices and ...