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McDonald’s among food firms urging tougher deforestation rules
Roger Harrabin, BBC News, 05 October 2020Food firms in the UK, including McDonald’s, are urging the Johnson Government to toughen up rules designed to protect rainforests. Ministers across the UK are debating a new law forbidding large companies from using produce that has been sourced from illegally deforested land. McDonald’s has set a deadline of 2030 for removing...
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New Zealand companies lag behind others in their reporting on climate change, and that’s a risk to their reputation.
Jagadish Thaker, The Conversation, 24 September 2020New Zealand's top 30 corporations are doing a poor job reporting on climate risks, emission-reduction targets or climate-related initiatives in their annual reports or financial statements, according to new research.
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International companies make new vows to tackle carbon emissions, even as global action falls short
Steven Mufson & Brady Dennis, The Washington Post, 23 September 2020Some of the world's largest companies have recently made new promises to reduce their carbon emissions in the lead up to Climate Week in New York. These global companies say they have not lost sight of the urgency of climate change despite COVID-19.
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Unilever to drop fossil fuels from cleaning products by 2030
Siddharth Cavale, Reuters, 02 September 2020Unilever has pledged one billion euros by 2030, to lower the creation of carbon emissions by one-fifth created from the production of its cleaning products. Instead of petrochemicals, the company will now use constituents created from plants and other biological sources. Currently, the company emits about 100 million metric tonnes of carbon...
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Rio Tinto boss to meet with traditional owners in Pilbara after company blasted ancient rock shelters
AAP, The Guardian, 31 August 2020Rio Tinto’s CEO, Jean-Sebastien Jacques, has pledged to hold talks with the Pilbara people after the company’s destruction of their 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge shelters. Rio Tinto also issued a written apology to the Indigenous group, apologizing for the destruction.
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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...
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Coronavirus crisis: Woolworths appoints its first medical officer
The West Australian, 13 August 2020Woolworths has become the first Australian retailer to appoint a chief medical officer (CMO). The position was created to shape the retailer’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, and provide Woolworths Group with expert medical advice to shape company policies and strengthen customer safety.
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Australia Post sets new, ambitious environmental targets
Australia Post Newsroom, Australia Post, 04 August 2020Australia Post has announced that its 2020 environmental targets have been a success, reducing carbon emissions by 25 per cent and diverting 100,000 tonnes of material from landfill. The organization also pledged to increase its recycling rate by 2025. “Since 2000 we have reduced our carbon emissions by 25 per cent. But there is always more to...
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Why We Can’t Shop Our Way to Sustainability
Marc Lepere and Giana Eckhardt, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 20 July 2020To build sustainability, business leaders must partner with government and society to re-focus their companies on new forms of market exchange, explain Marc Lepere and Giana Eckhardt. New sustainability plans have meant that business leaders can refocus government policy and social needs to create sustainable products and outputs. However,...
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Preserving organisational trust with Professor Nicole Gillespie
13 July 2020In this episode of Very Public Affairs, the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns is joined by Professor Nicole Gillesipe, KPMG Chair in Organizational Trust and Professor of Management at the University of Queensland Business School to discuss how organisational design affects trust, and how organisations can...
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