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Global sustainability standards bodies launch shared vision, goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... have witnessed businesses around the world having to pivot their business models overnight, to prioritize the health and safety of their employees and customers above the immediate financial success of the business," said Charles Tilley, CEO of the IIRC. ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... significant and unprecedented disruption for Australian businesses and 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 ...

ESG performance and cannabis

KELLIE JOHNSTON, ANDREA BREWER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... major driver is consumers who are becoming increasingly interested in where their products originate, their health and safety characteristics, and their impacts on people and the environment. A growing volume of evidence shows companies that manage material ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... play. Many qualitative fund managers evaluate the impacts of founder-led companies on issues like occupational health and safety, and governance and social issues, but say the results can be idiosyncratic. Investment professionals who spoke with FS Sustainability ...

Climate, modern slavery areas of engagement: Ethical Partners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... been one of our major pushes. COVID-19 has also been a big push over the last six months, touching on worker health and safety, insecure and unfair work, and other issues." Social issues are growing areas of engagement overall, noted Nathan Parkin, investment ...

Increase in linking environmental, social metrics to remuneration: ISS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... and goals. Kolesnikoff compared linking climate and incentive schemes to similar moves linking occupational health and safety metrics and incentive schemes. "It's the same as with health and safety - when they're in short term incentives, the question ...

Insight Investment launches proprietary ESG risk rating system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... the previous year. "A lot of the environmental and social factors will have value, such as carbon emissions, health and safety and governance," Kendall said. "But if you look at a lot of the third party models, they will also have indicators around shareholder ...

Government appoints Modern Slavery Expert Advisory Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... significant and unprecedented disruption for Australian businesses and 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 ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... portfolio manager for First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure Fund Investors have identified occupational health and safety, business continuity planning and balance sheet concerns with a focus on liquidity as immediate concerns during the ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Meanwhile, while 86% of companies in the mining, construction and commercial cleaning sector report some numerical health and safety data, only 26% disaggregate this data for their contractor and/or labour hire workforce. "A transformation taking place ...