Partners & Alliances
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We partner with a number of organisations to complement our core skills and allow us to deliver sustainability to a much wider population.
3 Pillars Network The 3 Pillars Network is considered the leading knowledge network for sustainable business in Australia. Membership is free for any individual who has attended a 3 Pillars event. Net Balance partners with 3 Pillars in defining the content for its leading edge conferences and seminars. AccountAbility We are a member of AccountAbility which manages the AA1000 series of standards which include the AA1000 Assurance Standard, the AA1000 Accountability Principles Standard and the AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard. www.accountability.org/standards/index.html Action Sustainability We partner with Action Sustainability, a not-for-profit social enterprise in the UK set up to lead and inspire sustainable procurement. Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) We partner with ACCA Australia and New Zealand to produce a research series which analyses disclosures on areas of non-financial performance by Australian Securities Exchange top 50 companies. Recent reports have included disclosures on water, social investment and corporate governance. For more information click here. Australian Legal Sector Alliance (AusLSA) AusLSA is working collaboratively to promote sustainable practices across the legal sector. Net Balance is providing the secretariat for the Alliance. The AusLSA Project Manager is based at the Net Balance offices in Melbourne, and is able to draw on the knowledge, experience and resources of the whole of the Net Balance Group. www.legalsectoralliance.com.au Change2 Change2 specialises in the delivery of online cultural and behavioural education tools to assist organisations in the move to more sustainable business practices. The platform is a multi-award winning education and staff engagement tool that is used in a number of organisations. NetBalance provides subject matter expertise for Change2 content which covers a diverse range including energy efficiency, construction, carbon trading and staff engagement modules. Alongside this, Change2 also has a Change2 Network which is a free central resource on sustainability that brings together individuals, business, government and NGOs. www.change2.com.au or www.change2.net CorporateRegister.com Net Balance partners with CorporateRegister.com, the global online sustainability resources website. The CorporateRegister.com CR Report Directory is the world's largest online directory of company issued Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Environment reports from around the world. The directory is continually updated with new reports and companies. www.CorporateRegister.com and www.AustraliaReporting.com Deloitte Australia Net Balance has worked together with Deloitte on a number of National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) and Emissions Intensive Trade Exposed (EITE) Assessment audits. By working together, we provide our clients access to a unique combination of experienced greenhouse and energy technical experts, and financial auditing professionals. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Net Balance is an organisational stakeholder of the GRI, the world’s most widely-used sustainability reporting framework. Net Balance Director, Robyn Leeson, is also an elected member of the GRI’s Stakeholder Council. Impact EMS Impact EMS is a simple and affordable web-based environmental tracking and sustainability system for businesses of all sizes. It was founded out of a desire to provide an affordable environmental tracking and carbon management solution to businesses with a single location, right through to multi-location and global organisations. Impact EMS has not only been developed to assist businesses to improve their environmental performance and achieve cost savings, but a portion of profits from the system will also be directed to not-for-profit organisations Sustainable Table and the Net Balance Foundation. nef consulting We partner with nef consulting, the consulting arm of the new economics foundation in London, to deliver Social Return on Investment training in Australia. Swinburne University National Centre for Sustainability We partner with the National Centre for Sustainability (NCS) Swinburne to deliver accredited GRI training on sustainability reporting. For more information click here Trucost Trucost has collected the world’s most comprehensive data on corporate environmental impacts, including carbon, water, waste and air pollution and has developed a leading-edge model for assessing the environmental impacts of supply chains. |
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