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Danone’s CEO has been ousted for being progressive - blame society not activist shareholders
Arturo Bris, The Conversation, 20 March 2021Danone’s chief executive and chairman, Emmanuel Faber, is set to step down after activist shareholders called for his removal. The shareholder group have blamed Faber for “a combination of poor operational record and questionable capital allocation choices”. Namely, not being able to “strike the right balance between shareholder value creation...
stakeholder
advocacy
Public purse to bankroll more of our news
Colin Peacock, RNZ, 11 February 2021The New Zealand Government has pledged $55 million for a new fund for public interest news and journalism. Media companies across the country will compete to access the fund over the next three years. Mediawatch looks at what the fund is for and what it means for New Zealand's media...
advocacy
25 years ago today, the internet declared its independence - for better and for worse
Joshua Benton, NiemanLab, 08 February 2021With tech utopianism and tech hubris more intertwined than ever before, John Perry Barlow's cyber-libertarian premise resonates in the policy debates of today. At the time, Barlow's declaration read as an outcry against a bold new generation of leaders who'd marry the countercultural ambitions of the 1960s to the tech-fueled exuberance of the...
advocacy
A rushed move to virtual AGMs would disempower shareholders
Ian Ramsay & Lloyd Freeburn,, The Conversation, 03 November 2020Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg seems to have backed down from his push to make virtual annual general meetings permanent. The draft legislation that would have allowed investors and others just 12 days to comment on the legislation has been extended by seven days after the process was...
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stakeholder
advocacy
$14 trillion investor coalition puts Australia’s miners on notice over Indigenous rights
Nick Toscano, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October 2020A coalition of global investors managing a collective $14 trillion, has written to Australia’s largest mining companies demanding assurances about their dealings with Indigenous communities. The coalition referenced Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge a wake-up call, arguing that investors need to have confidence in how mining companies...
advocacy
Corporate groups cheer, investors cry foul as U.S. tightens shareholder rights rules
Jessica DiNapoli, Reuters, 24 September 2020The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to make it harder for shareholders to push companies on issues such as climate change, social justice and diversity. The changes sparked blowback from many stakeholders.
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Investors that manage US47tn demand worlds biggest polluters back plan for net-zero emissions
Adam Morton, The Guardian, 14 September 2020A group representing investors that collectively manage more than US$47tn in assets has demanded the world’s biggest corporate polluters in an attempt to force the implementation of net-zero strategies.
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csr
AustralianSuper seeks tougher penalties for Rio Tinto cave blast
Nick Toscano, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 August 2020AustralianSuper has met with Rio Tinto arguing that the executive bonus cuts announced earlier this week fall significantly short of appropriate corporate accountability. Ian Silk, chief executive of Australia’s largest superannuation fund made it clear to Rio Tinto’s chairman that the proposed penalties were an inadequate...
corporate responsibility
advocacy
‘We aren’t stopping at BHP’: Calls for investors to back push to stop sacred site mining
Nick Toscano, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 August 2020Indigenous land groups are lobbying shareholders of mining companies in an attempt to stop drilling activities being conducted on sacred sites. Indigenous land rights group, First Nations Heritage Alliance has thrown its support behind shareholder activism targeted at giving Indigenous people more rights over ancestral...
advocacy
socio political environment
Shutting down fossil fuel companies from the inside – what some shareholders are doing
Michael Slezak, ABC News, 11 August 2020Another activist shareholder group has pledged to push fossil fuel companies towards action to mitigate climate change. More than 100 investors of Whitehaven Coal have filed a resolution questioning the long-term feasibility of the company’s production of fossil fuels.
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