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Corporate Human Rights Benchmark issues draft indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) has developed draft indicators that will be used to rank companies on their human rights performance. Duncan Paterson, CAER CEO The draft indicators are out for public consultation, and CHRB plans to use the ...

BP shareholders pass Aiming for A climate risk resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
BP shareholders overwhelmingly backed a resolution that has directed the company to provide more information on their strategic management of carbon risks. Resolution 25 was proposed by the Aiming for A coalition, a group of institutional investors ...

Abbot Point Port Expansion leads controversy list: RepRisk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... bid in Qatar was fifth. "The projects are based in North and South America, Eurasia, Asia and Australia, and span the extractive, leisure, industrial transportation and utility sectors," RepRisk said. "Out of the ten projects ranked in the MCP Report ...

Canada adopts mining payment regime, Australia next?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... companies, and Publish What you Pay Australia said this could influence Australia to adopt a similar regime here. Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act will require oil, gas and mining companies to report their payments to governments ...

Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... be to support disclosure of tax payments made by multinational corporations on a country-by-country basis, and for extractive industry companies to disclose payments on a country-by-country and project-by-project basis. Both of these proposals are the ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... health and safety in under the social as part of it and include it in the OFR," Chioatto said. "Every company in the extractive industry sees that as their primary concern. That could be something that is looked at. In terms of expanding that, in terms ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... and gas companies' hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" -activities, and future engagements over labour standards in the extractive industry and direct employee issues in the retail sector, Reynolds said.. Reynolds has recently returned to Australia and ...

AustralianSuper equities less carbon-intense than benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... appropriately considered." The AU$69 billion fund also commissioned Trucost to examine the portfolios' exposure to fossil fuel extractive companies, and found that both the Australian portfolio and the international portfolio are less exposed to fossil ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... presidency of the G20 for 2014. PWYP Australia is also part of the multi-stakeholder group that is evaluating the pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) program that was carried out from July 2012 to June 2013. The report by the multi-stakeholder ...

Paladin Energy, Swala Energy join EITI Supporting Companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Australian companies Paladin Energy and Swala Energy and seven other oil, mining and gas companies have recently joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as supporting companies. According to the EITI, 85 companies around the world ...