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Government to adopt the Code for Corporate Citizenship
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The Shoalhaven Declaration
The Shoalhaven Declaration describes a solution for ending the abuses to the environment by changing the corporate law – everywhere – to require company directors to never again allow their companies to cause severe damage to the environment. By Robert C. Hinkley* Today, governments all over the world are failing to protect the environment from…
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Video: Round table on corporate citizenship
Placing ‘The Code’ under the microscope in a European context. In this 84-minute round table discussion, Francesca Leucci and Susanna Cafaro from Italy and Young-Jin Choi from Germany place Robert Hinkley’s proposed code under the microscope within a European environmental and climate change context, and they discuss it from both a legal and an investment/economic…
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Article: Corporations need a moral compass
By Robert C. Hinkley. Photo by Denise Jans, Unsplash 29 May 2023 Companies inflicting severe damage on the environment are encouraged to continue by the Corporate Law. The climate emergency proves that an economy based on companies proceeding without guardrails to protect the environment from severe harm is unsustainable. Corporate directors must be obligated to…
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Sign the Open Letter
Call on the Australian Government to adopt The Code for Corporate Citizenship Corporations formed pursuant to Australian law should never cause severe damage to the environment. Yet, a small number of companies – less than one per cent of all companies – are doing just that, through the daily emission of huge quantities of greenhouse…
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Global launch event in Geelong
On 25 May 2023, Robert Hinkley is coming to Geelong to give a presentation at the Geelong Library. The event has a $5 admission fee to cover the costs.→ Book your seat here Code for Corporate Citizenship: Global Launch in Geelong On 25 May 2023, Geelong will be the site for the worldwide launch of…
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Who is Robert Hinkley?
Robert C. Hinkley is an accomplished US corporate attorney and a dual Australian-American citizen. He has over 20 years’ experience advising large companies and investment banks in US securities offerings. From 1989-2001 he built and managed Skadden Arps’ US legal practice in Australia. He is the author of the book ‘Time to Change Corporations: Closing the…
Duty of Care Bill versus The Code – what’s the difference?
The Duty of Care bill says that politicians and regulations must consider future generations in holding big companies to account. It’s one step removed from requiring big companies to not cause severe harm in the first place. It’s an indirect attempt to hold companies accountable, where The Code makes it clear that they are not to engage in severely destructive behaviour from the start.
“Clearly we can’t be too far — and nor should we be — from a world in which directors are held personally responsible for the climate policies of their companies and institutions and for the statements they make about those policies. This would certainly focus the minds of these corporate leaders on their responsibilities, and perhaps spur them to work with their private sector peers and governments to accelerate a realistic transition to a low carbon Australia.”
~ John Hewson, former Liberal leader, in The Saturday Paper on 6 May 2023
A new legal opinion has found company directors could be held personally liable if they don’t consider the risks that come with relying on nature to make money. https://t.co/geK54nqBYi
— Australian Conservation Foundation (@AusConservation) November 1, 2023
Listen to interview about ‘The Code’
Corporate lawyer’s ‘code’ that will change the world
The Climate Revolution episode 4: ‘The Code’