Archive

  • IPO plans for New Zealand's Meridian advance

    28 May 2013

    The New Zealand government has moved forward with its plans for a billion-dollar public listing of renewable energy company Meridian Energy.

  • New GRI guidelines 'major step forward', say investors, businesses

    22 May 2013

    Businesses and investors have welcomed the updated Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework as a major step forward in the evolution of sustainability reporting.

  • Sustainability reporting 'more than worth its costs'

    21 May 2013

    More than half of companies that report on sustainability issues say it gives them a competitive advantage, a survey has revealed.

  • Is company reporting coming of age?

    17 May 2013

    Major changes in non-financial reporting have been launched this year. Dave Knight and Louise Ayling look at the implications for business and the key issues of materiality, value chain and governance

  • New and improved PRI framework released

    09 May 2013

    The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative has published a new reporting framework, after amending the proposals in response to concerns that the process would be too time consuming for signatories.

  • Carbon trader launches environmental services arm

    23 April 2013

    One of the carbon market's leading investors has launched a new business, aimed at companies that wish to measure and report their emissions, water and energy use.

  • Mandatory ESG reporting to stock exchanges to take 'at least four years'

    18 April 2013

    It is likely to be at least another four years before major stock exchanges make reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues mandatory for companies, an analysis firm has claimed.

  • EU's proposed ESG reporting rules must go further – investors, CDP

    17 April 2013

    Aviva Investors and the CDP have urged the European Commission to go further in its proposal of a law to improve large companies' reporting of environmental and social information.

  • Investor-led group proposes 'integrated reporting' framework

    16 April 2013

    A business and investor-led coalition has launched a framework to help companies integrate non-financial drivers, such as natural capital, into their corporate reporting.

  • BofAML tips stocks set to turn trash into $2trn

    09 April 2013

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has identified companies that are well-placed to gain from the growth of the waste management sector – an industry it estimates will double in value by 2020.