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Google's DEI dump may tank ESG score

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... level controversies. These include anticompetitive practices, privacy and data security, product safety and quality, human rights concerns, and labour rights and supply chain controversies. Some of Australia's largest superannuation funds hold investments ...

Scottish Widows mandates Robeco to build new ESG indices

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Scottish Widows Ethical Fund avoids investments in companies involved in social problems, destruction of human life, human rights or labour abuses, environmental damage, animal testing for cosmetics, irresponsible corporate practices. Joop Huij, head ...

Meta fact-checking move unsettles ethical investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... companies behave ethically and responsibly. "Investors understand that big tech, social media and AI can have huge human rights and environmental implications, and can negatively impact democracy, social stability and even economies," Parker said. "Stewardship... ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... BIAT. The Asia Pacific region is more financially exposed to palm oil, rubber, and pulp and paper, the report found. Human rights violations, including forced and child labour, and Indigenous displacement, have been identified in deforestation-linked ...

Green Moves: S&P, SBTi, Macquarie, Anti-Slavery Commissioner

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... forced labour in supply chains and moves over from The Salvation Army. McManus is a leading specialist in corporate human rights due diligence with experience at the Walk Free Foundation and Woolworths Group. The $170+ trillion, 500-plus member-strong ...

Podcast: Illuminating the dark underbelly of gold mining with Terry Heymann

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... riddled with black market criminality - financing terrorism, war, and organised crime. Today we take a closer look at human rights and ESG in the value chain, and the important work being done to pinpoint the problem and clean up gold's act. Terry ...

Investors zero in on nature, human rights nexus

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has finally tackled the complex issue of nature and human rights in the first comprehensive framework published last week. The UN-convened initiative says more investors and companies are ramping up nature ...

Funds SA loses ESG executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... analyst in equities research looking at remuneration, bribery and corruption, carbon footprinting, safety, slavery and human rights and their impacts on Australian listed companies. Previously, Quintal spent three years at JL Australia as director of ...

Mega asset manager defends OECD complaint

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... and index funds. The complaint follows legal precedent that financial institutions are responsible for acting on human rights and environmental harms in index funds. BlackRock knew about material material risks in agribusinesses and specific violations ...

Supermarket giants lead anti-slavery efforts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... metrics. In October 2024, the group received the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) 'Recognition for Action - Human Rights' award for its efforts. During the past 12 months, members have engaged with 21 APAC focus companies to help them find ...