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Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The global meat supply chain carries risks including animal welfare, occupational health and safety and climate change, but companies around the world across the supply chain are enhancing their disclosures and practices. Global fund manager Robeco ...

Scentre Group to increase disclosure for cleaning contracts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Group are taking to make sure that no wage theft is going to occur in cleaning contracts, and also occupational health and safety provisions," Hepworth said. "There is a threshold above modern slavery that responsible businesses must adhere to." Scentre ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... terms of climate emissions, varying standards of corporate governance and concerns over issues like occupational health and safety, worker rights and other considerations. The MSCI Emerging Markets ESG Leaders index has outperformed the wider MSCI Emerging ...

Social license to operate, stakeholder management key governance concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... The COVID-19 pandemic has brought these issues into stark relief, as companies manage employee occupational health and safety, financial hardship and wellbeing of customer base, and the overarching pandemic-related recession and government fiscal response ...

Cromwell Property Group sets net zero carbon target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... whole myriad of questions to be asked and they varied state to state." In addition to managing the occupational health and safety implications of COVID-19, Cromwell disclosed other metrics regarding OH&S, including employee training and facilities services ...

Evolution Mining links value generation to sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... vice president - sustainability at Evolution Mining. She highlighted the alignment between strong occupational health and safety, regard for environment, and minimising water usage with cost containment, for example. The company produced 746,463 ounces ...

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... play. Many qualitative fund managers evaluate the impacts of founder-led companies on issues like occupational health and safety, and governance and social issues, but say the results can be idiosyncratic. Investment professionals who spoke with FS Sustainability ...

Increase in linking environmental, social metrics to remuneration: ISS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... and goals. Kolesnikoff compared linking climate and incentive schemes to similar moves linking occupational health and safety metrics and incentive schemes. "It's the same as with health and safety - when they're in short term incentives, the question ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... portfolio manager for First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure Fund Investors have identified occupational health and safety, business continuity planning and balance sheet concerns with a focus on liquidity as immediate concerns during the ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... respective workforces. The report outlines potential impacts on company performance, including poorer Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) outcomes, increased possibility of involvement in modern slavery, labour exploitation and wage theft; lower levels ...