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High to severe ESG incidents affect market capitalisation: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... analyzed." Australia's most common incidents were also quality and safety and business and ethics. "In Australia, Diversified Metals is the industry with the most exposure to incidents: 127 incidents occurred in association with this industry during ...

Removing complicity in modern slavery?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Christ, University of South Australia In leading companies zero tolerance is the norm. Andrew Forrest, Chair of Fortescue Metals, has acknowledged that in the mining industry ' We had slavery in our supply chains'. Fortescue used direct action as the ...

Government launches inquiry investigating need for Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... legislation to bring Australia to a level equal to that in the UK may be a relatively uncontroversial process. Fortescue Metals Chairman Andrew Forrest has publicly called for an Australian Modern Slavery Act, for example. "Generally, companies want ...

BHP Billiton ESG downgrade prompts asset owner questions: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... compared to other water dams of roughly ten times because of the complexity of mining tailings. The International Council of Metals and Mining and has launched a global tailings management review for all members globally." The red flag for controversies ...

90% of ASX200 companies report on sustainability: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... reporting - Mesoblast. Leaders include AGL, Amcor, ANZ Banking, BHP Billiton, Brambles, CSL, Dexus Property Group, Fortescue Metals, GPT, Insurance Australia Group, Incitec Pivot, Mirvac, Macquarie, National Australia Bank, Orica, Oil Search, OZ Minerals ...

Materiality analysis helps define sustainability issues: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... companies and investors agree on what is material?, which examined 129 sustainability reports from three sectors - mining, metals and electric utilities. The analysis found that in all three sectors, there is "general alignment" between the topic disclosed ...

ACSI calls for better ASX disclosure of mental health and safety

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... below the disclosure levels of the same comparator group of international industry peers", ACSI said. Further, while 79% of metals and mining companies in the S&P/ASX200 have fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workforces, only one-third of those disclose details ...

ANZ to partner with AWA in SE Asia program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... industry lines," Tonkin said. "You'll have property, resources, and within that you'll have a focus on oil and gas and metals and mining and what have you, but water of course is the type of asset that touches all of that, and in a bank, you don't have ...

ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... disclosures, the report found. The forest and paper products industry identified with all ten megaforces, while mining and metals, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and materials sectors identified with nine megaforces on average per ...

KPMG: top global miners make $1.2bn in social investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Mining, metals and engineering companies make billions of dollars of social investments, yet few companies report on the impacts these programs are having, according to KPMG. Carl Adams, head of mining, KPMG Australia KPMG's Global Mining Institute ...