A long way to go : ASX 200 firms warned on social issues reporting maze
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Australian investors are finding it tough weighing up how their companies are performing on key social and ethical issues because of a lack of consistency on Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) reporting standards among the nation s biggest companies.
However, a review of ESG reporting among ASX 200 companies by corporate consultancy PwC has found many sharemarket-listed businesses have a long way to go to meet investor expectations when it comes to providing hard facts on how they re performing on these issues.
Mining giants push back on sacred site pause after Rio cave disaster
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Australia s largest miners are pushing back against a federal inquiry s proposal to pause all projects on sacred Indigenous sites across the nation s most lucrative mining state, as key investors and First Nations leaders stand by the move to overhaul the industry.
Following months of public hearings, a joint parliamentary committee probing Rio Tinto s destruction of two 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock shelters released a list of recommendations on Wednesday. The most far-reaching of its calls was for a Western Australia-wide freeze on all new government approvals to disturb or destroy culturally significant sites until the state s laws were strengthened.
The interim review into how global miner Rio legally destroyed the sites in May recommended it pay restitution to the traditional owners, and also that the industry improve how it obtains consent from Aboriginal groups to impact heritage sites on their ancestral lands., , rio tinto, united nations, mining sector
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