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Australian tech company Atlassian commits to net zero emissions by 2050
Max Tillman, ABC 7.30, Monday 23rd September, 2019, 19 September 2019 Australian software giant Atlassian has committed to a net zero carbon emissions target by 2050, as co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes continues to push the Australian government to do more on climate change. Mr Cannon-Brookes has also called on the Federal Government to make it easier for businesses to implement net zero carbon targets. While...
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Sainsbury's pledges to halve plastic packaging by 2025
BBC News, Thursday 12th September, 2019, 12 September 2019 Sainsbury’s, the second largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom has pledged to halve the amount of plastic used in its stores by 2025. "We can't do this on our own and we will be asking our suppliers and our customers to work with us," said Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe. Talks with food manufacturers, suppliers, scientists and the waste and...
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Business Action Critical to Secure a Sustainable Future
Tina Nybo Jensen, IISD, Tuesday 10th September, 2019, 10 September 2019 In a recent review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the United Nations High-level Political Forum found countries are not on track to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set four years ago. An evaluation of the GRI found a fall in the number of countries providing information...
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Miners face higher bar to maintain ‘social licence’, report warns
Nick Toscano, Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 2nd September, 2019, 02 September 2019 A Deloitte report being circulated within the mining industry has warned companies that conflict with communities could face losing their social licence if they are unable to go beyond their required stakeholder and environmental obligations. "In many countries, the true economic contribution of mining is being questioned," said the report. The...
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Quick Comment: The Stakeholder Corporation and the Business Roundtable
The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns talks through the Business Roundtable's recently released statement on the purpose of companies.
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Big new things in internal communications
22 August 2019Tarnya Dunning, General Manager of Employee Communications at Telstra, and Alistair Marshall, Head of Internal Communications at Coles, share insights to the benefits of having a best practice employee communications strategy for corporations.
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Group of US Corporate Leaders Ditches Shareholder-First Mantra
Richard Henderson & Patrick Temple-West, Financial Times, Monday 19th August 2019, 03 August 2019 The Business Roundtable is one of the largest and most influential business groups in the United States and it includes CEOs from JP Morgan, Amazon, General Motors and Apple. In a new statement released this week on the Purpose of a Corporation, the Business Roundtable dropped the “shareholder primacy” ideology that has driven corporations for...
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Unilever warns it will sell off brands that hurt the planet or society
Zoe Wood, The Guardian, Thursday 25th July 2019, 20 July 2019 Unilever has warned it could sell off brands that do not contribute positively to society as it ponders a cull linked to the company’s sustainable business agenda. Alan Jope, Unilever’s chief executive, said it was no longer enough for consumer goods companies to sell washing powders that make shirts whiter or shampoos that make hair shinier...
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2019 Corporate Public Affairs Oration
2019 Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by Alison Watkins, Group Managing Director Coca-Cola Amatil. In an age of high distrust in corporations, what is the social contract that corporations need to forge with the community?
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The Investor Revolution
Robert G. Eccles & Svetlana Klimenko, Harvard Business Review, May-June 2019 Edition, 10 June 2019 Most corporate leaders understand that businesses have a key role to play in tackling urgent issues like climate change. But in practice, investors, portfolio managers, and analysts rarely engage corporate executives on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. But the perception that ESG just hasn’t gone mainstream in the investment...
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