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EY issues call to action to companies over social license to operate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
EY has challenged Australian companies to take a hard look at whether they are maintaining their social license to operate or if they are running a "corporate trust deficit." Matthew Bell, EY Oceania climate change and sustainability leader EY recently ...

Companies, CEOs, chairs seen as unethical: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... culture is essential to creating value. It creates opportunities and enhances operations and underpins social license to operate." Survey results demonstrate that while government laws, regulations and financial penalties are seen to influence ethical ...

Social license to operate key to achieving sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... business' role in sustainable development, covering issues business must manage to earn and maintain social license to operate, according to an expert in social research. Robert Boutilier, president of Boutilier and Associates Social license to operate ...

EY appoints new climate change and sustainability leader

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... sectors, but it applies across a raft of areas including human rights in the supply chain, energy, and social license to operate more broadly." Bell will lead nearly 100 people in Australia. EY's Climate Change and Sustainability practice has grown steadily ...

ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... more environmentally scrutinized operations could result in increased risks of reputation damage and loss of license to operate for companies involved." There are layers of ESG risks to these projects, with interlocking impacts and varying levels of ...

ACCSR tracks Australian/NZ progress towards CSR innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... impacts, developing new products/services with environmentally responsible attributes and strengthening social license to operate as other high priorities. Black said the biggest surprise in this year's survey was the sense of optimism that respondents ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... the ultimate benefit of members' outcomes in retirement, and it also means that funds have to maintain their license to operate. Industry-wide collaboration and lobbying "The superannuation system in Australia is a community system, so it must meet those ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... is also an issue for investors. Spoors cited the extractives industry and companies' need to maintain social license to operate in developing countries and with regimes that can feature corruption and lack of transparency around the amount of taxation ...

PRI coalition calls for improved palm oil practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... statement. "They must now adhere to environmental, social and governance practices which will ensure their license to operate and safeguard the capital provided by the industry's increasingly global investors. Commitments such as those made by Wilmar ...

Managing ESG reputation can benefit corporate value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... cited the coal seam gas industry as an industry in which reputation has a major impact on a company's social license to operate, with concomitant impacts on financial costs and return. She cited incidents at three companies in which ability to communicate ...