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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... climate change-related risk. Bill Hartnett, 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 ...

Local Government Super co-files ACCR-organised Rio Tinto shareholder resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). It is expected to be heard at Rio Tinto's UK AGM on 11 April and Australian AGM on 2 May, and calls on Rio Tinto's board to "disclose industry memberships and amounts paid since 2012; evaluate ...

ACCR seeking shareholders for resolution at Rio Tinto AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... unaligned agendas. These are not new concerns. They're concerns that have been put to Rio over some years." Rio Tinto's Australian AGM will be held in Melbourne on 2 May. O'Brien says the engagement with Rio Tinto on the subject of its membership in ...

Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility joins Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
The Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) has joined Deloitte as part of the Risk Advisory business and Reputation and Sustainability Practice. ACCSR joins Deloitte. (Pictured L-R) Wibi Rockwood, Director, Deloitte Risk Advisory ...

ACSI supports "if not, why not" reporting for Modern Slavery requirement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) says it strongly supports the introduction of a supply chains reporting requirement, and favours an "if not, why not" approach to implementation. ACSI has made submission ...

ACSI publishes report calling for introduction of non-binding shareholder resolutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) is calling for legislation introducing non-binding shareholder resolutions as a remedy to current "flawed" framework for shareholder resolutions. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO ACSI has released a ...

Governance experts discuss issues in AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... higher degree of institutional participation than ever before." Remuneration is on the agenda for engagement for the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), and ACSI is also considering the issue of use of underlying earnings as a measure ...

Woolworths facing shareholder resolution asking for human rights supply chain disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... (ACCR) has filed the resolution in on behalf of shareholders. ACCR recently commissioned research firm CAER to assess Australian listed companies against the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB), and in the research, which will be released in the ...

Considering the first 20 years of the Global Reporting Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... more profoundly in the future on regulation and policy in this sphere. Leeora Black, managing director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility The GRI has recently celebrated its 20 th anniversary. In that time, it has become the ...

Government to introduce Australian Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... mandatory, but companies have the flexibility on reporting. So it doesn't seem very mandatory for us." On Friday, the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) held a panel to discuss human rights in the supply chain, and the government's ...