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Increase in linking environmental, social metrics to remuneration: ISS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... day job and if they pollute the world, they should actually be penalised?" The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) also said executives must not be rewarded for normal business functions. "While AGL's intention to reward executives ...

Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... with over ten years' experience in financial services. She was most recently senior manager, ESG and corporate responsibility, at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Hall has also worked at AMP Capital, Ironbark Asset Management based in Australia, and ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... contracting workforce in annual reporting documents, according to research from the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). Katie Hepworth, ACCR director of workers' rights ACCR's report, Labour Hire and Contracting Across the ASX100 ...

More than a third of investors back Rio Tinto climate resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... put to the Woodside AGM has received a majority of shareholders' support. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) lodged four shareholder resolutions with the AGM of ASX-listed oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum Limited. The AGM ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... well. Within Australia, Katie Hepworth, director of workers' rights at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR), highlighted concerns over the impacts of COVID-19 in the agriculture and cleaning sectors, because of previously identified ...

Woodside AGM climate resolution receives majority support

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... shareholders' support. Dan Gocher, ACCR director of climate and environment The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) lodged four shareholder resolutions with the AGM of ASX-listed oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum Limited. The ...

Coronavirus forcing companies to virtual AGMs, full proxy voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... going to need to be the voice at the forefront at this situation of AGMs." The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has lodged resolutions at both Santos and Woodside's AGMs. The first resolution calls on both companies' to suspend ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... pressing for corporate action are gearing up for new levels of intensity as well. The Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) will continue its campaigns in designing and organising support for resolutions at AGMs with demands for companies ...

Sustainalytics hires Jodie Tapscott as head of Australasia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... said. Tapscott comes to Sustainalytics from Colonial First State, where she was the executive manager of corporate responsibility leading the Corporate Responsibility team in developing and delivering the wealth management group's responsible investment ...

Market Forces lodges shareholder resolutions with Westpac, NAB, ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... season for environmental and social issue-related shareholder 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 ...