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Sustainability
Keep up to date on local and international sustainability developments. Our resources include thought leadership pieces, our submissions on carbon, water, integrated reporting and other sustainability matters and resource materials on sustainability related issues.
The Institute’s sustainability work is led by Karen McWilliams
Carbon
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The AUASB has issued a new guidance statement GS 021 Engagements under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting, Clean En...
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Members of the Institute’s policy team have appeared before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee’s inquiry into the Cle...
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The centre piece of the Clean Energy Act 2011 – the carbon price – is now applicable, as of 1 July 2012.
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Ahead of the implementation of the carbon cost on 1 July 2012, the Institute has released an updated Business Briefing on the...
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Businesses can do a lot now to prepare once the price on carbon takes effect next July.
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Regulatory oversight will be important for building market confidence during the implementation and transition of the carbon ...
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The price on carbon in conjunction with supporting innovation are key to reducing emissions in the long term.
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The Institute participated in the stakeholder lockup when the federal government announced its carbon package this week.
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The Productivity Commission has been asked to undertake a study on the effective carbon prices that result from emissions and...
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Australia needs a consistent basis for the financial reporting of emission rights.
Integrated reporting
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The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) released its consultation draft of the Integrated Reporting Framew...
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The IIRC has released explanatory documents on materiality, capital and business models, for the development of an internatio...
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The Climate Disclosure Standards Board and Promethium Carbon have jointly released a report on climate change and integrated ...
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The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has established a database of examples of emerging practice in Integrat...
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The IIRC has released the Draft Outline of the Integrated Reporting Framework it is preparing as the basis for a globally acc...
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The Institute lodged a submission to the International Integrated Reporting Council on its discussion paper Towards Integrate...
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The process toward the creation of an international integrated reporting framework has begun with the release of a discussion...
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The International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) launched a discussion paper Towards Integrated Reporting – Communicat...
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This paper provides some business case studies that shed light on the journey towards sustainable business practices.
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Internationally, the profile of integrated reporting is growing as was evident at the recent Accounting for Sustainability fo...
Water
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The JAB have lodged their submission to the WASB on its exposure draft of Australian Water Accounting Standard 1.
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This speech was presented in the Water Accounting panel discussion held in Melbourne on Wednesday, 27 October 2010.