Seminars coming up around Australia over the next few months will cover topics including environmental compliance, energy efficiency, bioenergy, carbon and water management at mines.
The way in which global top-500 companies report their greenhouse gas emissions is potentially misleading, according to a new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project, which also shows that linking executive pay to emissions reduction leads to improved performance.
Proposed ASX corporate governance recommendations will set new minimum requirements for environmental risk reporting, and allow closer scrutiny by analysts and investors, says Net Balance executive director Terence Jeyaretnam.
Companies will be under more pressure to inform investors of their environmental risk management strategies, under proposed changes to ASX corporate governance guidelines.
The European Commission overnight adopted a proposal for a new directive that would require large companies to report their environmental impacts or explain why they haven't, while the International Integrated Reporting Council simultaneously released its draft guidelines.
Almost 1,000 potentially contaminated sites have been reported to the NSW EPA since late 2009 – compared to just 500 notifications over the entire previous decade, says the state's new State of the Environment Report.