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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 executives lose millions in bonuses over destruction of Juukan Gorge
Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian, 24 August 2020Rio Tinto CEO, Jean-Sebasiten Jacques, has lost nearly $5 million in bonuses, and the head of its Australian ore group will lose more than $1 million in bonuses after an internal review found the company had “systematic failures in the cultural heritage management system.” This comes after the destruction of a 46,000 Aboriginal heritage site at...
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Facebook faces hate speech backlash in another big market
Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Manish Singh, TechCrunch, Monday August 17, 2020, 15 August 2020 Facebook is facing mounting pressure in its biggest user market, India, over a report claiming the company compromised its hate speech policy to favour Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP party.To read more go to TechCrunch
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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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Social licence to operate in 2020 with Wayne Burns
04 March 2020The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns talks about what it means for an organisation to have a social licence to operate: how it is has changed over time, how it's measured and lost, and the relation social licence has to corporate responsibility.
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Five Ways that ESG creates value
Witold Henisz, Tim Koller and Robin Nuttall, McKinsey & Company, 14 November 2019Getting your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) proposition right links to higher value creation. As a result, ESG is an inextricable part of how you do business, and its individual elements are themselves intertwined. Hence, thinking and acting on ESG in a proactive way has lately become even more pressing. The US...
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BHP boss Andrew Mackenzie most outspoken CEO on social issues, analysis finds
Dominic Powell, The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday October 21, 2019, 11 October 2019BHP CEO Andrew Mackenzie’s stance on climate change makes him the most vocal corporate leader in Australia, according to media researcher Streem. The research – tracked from October 2018 to September 2019 – has Mr Mackenzie as the most quoted CEO in the media with 156 mentions with 112 of these relating to climate change. Some of the issues...
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WeWork shelves plan for IPO, tries to rebuild battered image
Alexandra Olson & Stan Choe, Associated Press, Tuesday 1st October, 2019, 01 October 2019Following several turbulent weeks, co-working giant WeWork has shelved its planned IPO after several turbulent weeks have battered the company’s image. Initially, the company sought to go public with a valuation of nearly $50 billion (USD). The decision comes in the wake of co-founder Adam Neumann stepping aside as...
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Facebook’s Suspension of ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps Reveals Wider Privacy Issues
Kate Conger, Gabriel J.X. Dance and Mike Isaac, The New York Times, Friday 20th September, 2019, 16 September 2019 Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps for improperly gathering users’ personal information. The suspension highlights the privacy concerns that have troubled the social media company for several years remain an issue. Unsealed court filings revealed Facebook had suspended 69,000 apps and 10,000 apps were flagged for potentially...
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Apple apologises for allowing workers to listen to Siri recordings
Alex Hern, The Guardian, Thursday 29th August, 2019, 29 August 2019 Apple has issued an apology in a statement to its customers after a Guardian report revealed Apple contractors could listen to voice recordings of Siri users. “As a result of our review, we realise we have not been fully living up to our high ideals, and for that we apologise,” Apple said in a statement on its website. This comes as producers of...
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