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Digital human rights rise up the agenda post-COVID-19: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... were produced and ready to send, and they don't want to pay for them," Essink said. "That goes back to social license to operate, and human capital is key in that place."

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... beginning to understand the importance of wider stakeholder sponsorship." This includes the risk of losing social license to operate, as well as risks to investors in terms of cuts to dividends, as well as regulatory and legislative responses to COVID-19 ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... many of whom are deemed essential and have been working through the pandemic - and the fulfilment of social license to operate. Rebecca Myatt, portfolio manager for First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure Fund Investors have identified occupational ...

Fundamental portfolio managers analyse ESG performance of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... of sustainability at a company and global level. "What I think this means is a racheting up of this social license to operate conversation, because if you go back to the fundamentals as to why we face the problems we face today, it' the intersection ...

The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Action 100+, while the economic argument of cheaper costs of renewable energy and the pressure brought by social license to operate will continue to move action, Lewis said. In terms of regional responses to coronavirus as well as climate change and ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... disruption, physical change, rules being thrown out the window and how you act now is a demonstration of your social license to operate." Sustainability managers that are entrenched across business operations are in a position to understand how this ...

Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... is expected to arrive in the very near future. It's not surprising that discussions around trust and social license to operate continue to dominate in this first part of 2019. "The big push into 2019 is what we saw turning out to the end of last year ...

ASX adds social license to operate, TCFD to corporate governance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... recommendations for how listed companies disclose environmental and social sustainability risks, including social license to operate and greater guidance on carbon risk. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO The ASX Corporate Governance Council is consulting for ...

Australian CSR professionals appear unprepared for Modern Slavery Act: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... business to examine the risks to their operations and supply chain. "It increasingly will impinge on social license to operate," she said. "It's about people, stakeholders' acceptance or approval of an organisation's practices, and as expectations about ...

Peering into the sustainability crystal ball for 2018 - what lies ahead?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... superannuation. "That will focus the Australian market on issues like culture, but also really involves social license to operate and the expectations of the community on what business has as its purpose," O'Connor said. "This is a big discussion that ...