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Woodside AGM climate resolution receives majority support

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
A climate-related shareholder resolution put to the Woodside AGM has received a majority of shareholders' support. Dan Gocher, ACCR director of climate and environment The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) lodged four shareholder ...

Coronavirus forcing companies to virtual AGMs, full proxy voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... good, but it needs to be counterbalanced by a greater formalisation of shareholder rights. We need to make shareholder resolution possible without a constitutional amendment. We also need independent observation by ASIC to make sure shareholders are ...

Australian Ethical questions calls for limits on environmental activism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investments is raising questions about the ethical implications of restricting the rights of businesses and individuals to "advocate for positive societal change and environmentally friendly business practices," in the wake of a recent ...

First State Super on Climate Action 100+, engagement, and fund strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
In the midst of an AGM season in which several Australian listed companies are facing shareholder resolutions related to climate risk disclosure and management, First State Super, one of the signatories to the Climate Action 100+ coalition, reflects ...

Market Forces lodges shareholder resolutions with Westpac, NAB, ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... resolutions. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) and institutional investors have filed a shareholder resolution with BHP, calling on the company to suspend its memberships in industry associations which obstruct climate policy ...

ACCR files shareholder resolution with BHP over industry associations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) and institutional investors have filed a shareholder resolution with BHP, calling on the company to suspend its memberships in industry associations which obstruct climate policy in Australia. ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... losses for FY2017 due to claims resulting from natural catastrophes, was confronted at its 2018 AGM with a shareholder resolution on climate risk disclosure and was criticized for underwriting and investing in coal." There is new urgency to the task ...

ACCR files resolution to Qantas AGM over deportations and removals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) and the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) have co-filed a shareholder resolution calling on Qantas to stop deportations and removals to danger of asylum seekers and refugees. Brynn O'Brien, executive director ...

Climate-related shareholder resolutions put to Rio Tinto, QBE AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... head of sustainability, Local Government Super On May 2, Rio Tinto held its Australian AGM and voted on a shareholder resolution calling on Rio Tinto to review and fully disclose its relationships with industry bodies including the Minerals Council of ...

BHP Billiton to maintain membership in US Chamber of Commerce

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... on the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Minerals Council on activities." ACCR is pushing ahead with its shareholder resolution on the same topic for the Rio Tinto AGM. More than a hundred individual shareholders and three global asset owners including ...