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ACCR files resolutions with BHP, AGL for AGM votes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and leaders from across Australia. The resolution was prompted by Rio Tinto's destruction of culturally significant heritage sites at Juukan Gorge earlier this year. "Off the back of Rio Tinto in May ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... showed that of the top 20 ASX-listed companies - the top 10 in mining and the top 10 in oil and gas - only 3 - BHP, Rio Tinto and South32 were disclosing all their documentation at a country by country, project by project level, because they're mandated ...

Research project to study sustainable forestry in East Arnhem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... years of activities," said Jordy Bowman CEO of DEAL. " Gumatj Corporation has already been harvesting timber from a Rio Tinto mining site, and they are looking at how we could expand out to other available markets and other regions. There has been interest ...

ESG ETP assets under management triple in last three years: Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... fuels, we applied a revenue threshold to companies with exposure to fossil fuels and we've not had exposure to BHP or Rio Tinto since the launch of the ETF. We updated that last year. We went further to fully exclude fossil fuel reserves. There are about ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... looked at the broader impacts of that shift for an investment audience." Only two of the 19 companies - Fortescue and Rio Tinto - define 'labour hire' and/or 'contractor' in their reporting, and their definitions capture different sections of their respective ...

More than a third of investors back Rio Tinto climate resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
More than a third of investors have backed a climate resolution at Rio Tinto's annual general meeting. Nearly 37% of investors voted for the resolution prepared by Market Forces, which called on Rio Tinto to set clear emissions targets including Scope ...

Sustainalytics rates unmanaged ESG risk in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
The Australian listed equities benchmark has slightly less unmanaged environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk than benchmarks in the US, UK and Canada, with the exception of the Australian materials sector, which has relatively more risk than ...

Market Forces lodges shareholder resolutions with Westpac, NAB, ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, and LNG infrastructure in the United States. The resolutions follow others challenging Rio Tinto, QBE, Suncorp and AGL to manage climate risk. IAG and Origin Energy face similar resolutions at their AGMs in the coming ...

Investment in climate-related opportunities grow: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... active engagement with companies they own." Herd cited recent company engagement with companies including Glencore, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Shell and BP as examples of engagement to seek increased resilience to climate risk. "In the absence of clear ...

Vanessa Zimmerman launches Pillar Two human rights consultancy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... Slavery reporting. Vanessa Zimmerman, founder, Pillar Two Zimmerman previously worked as group advisor human rights at Rio Tinto, and is a board member and chair, human rights of the Global Compact Network Australia. "Pillar 2 of the United Nations Guiding ...