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Identifying climate change risks in investment analysis

AGNIESZKA COCHRANE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Acute and chronic effects of a changing climate can lead to reduced revenue from decreased production capacity (e.g. supply chain in-terruptions), negative impacts on the workforce (e.g. absenteeism), write-offs and early retirement of existing assets ...

Identifying potential risks of COVID-19 and modern slavery in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... global supply chains." This disruption, and the health and safety and greater human rights impacts on employees in the supply chain both in Australia and internationally have raised concerns in business, investment and civil society circles. Supply chains ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... family controlled. Mascotto compared those companies to the MSCI Human Capital score, which looks at issues like supply chain management, labour management, employee health and safety and other concerns. "The conclusion is interesting in that there is ...

Australia "woefully unprepared": Australian Climate Roundtable

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Australia is "woefully unprepared for the scale of climate change threats that will emerge over the coming decades," and coordination of Australia's response to climate change should be managed by the National Cabinet, according to the Australian ...

More companies reporting on SDGs, but quality lacking: RMIT

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Nava Subramaniam, Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation at RMIT's School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain and the report's lead author. "In many sense, we are still in the infancy of SDG reporting, with 72 companies just mentioning ...

Walk Free launches human rights toolkit for business, investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... out how to prepare their own statements. The toolkit is divided into six sections: - Understanding the problem - Supply chain due diligence, codes of conduct, corrective action and remedy - Legal obligations and frameworks - Modern slavery reporting ...

Australian business environment amongst world's most resilient: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Australia's business environment is "amongst the world's most resilient", particularly around supply chain resilience, but is exposed to a number of risks, including cyber risk, oil intensity and corporate governance, according to commercial insurer ...

Data management presents risk, opportunity: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
There is a disconnect between IT and business leaders regarding the risk and opportunity of consumer data, according to new research from the Governance Institute of Australia and CSIRO. Megan Motto, Governance Institute CEO The report - Digital Trust ...

Capacity, resilience and interdependency key engagement topics: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... needed, or more complex things like the extent to which you might want to have additional resilience built into the supply chain, or a wider number of vetted suppliers you might want to have to hand. For example, we know that anytime you have a rush ...

Identifying exposures to modern slavery a key concern: Informed 365

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... corporate social responsibility (CSR). Informed 365 is providing a platform for gathering information related to supply chain exposures to modern slavery, said Nicholas Bernhardt, CEO of Informed 365. "If you're a high tech appliance manufacturer, and ...