Sustainable Gas and Assault at Rio Tinto

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21 min listen
Elchin Mammadov, Samuel Block
February 4, 2022
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The EU has made a last minute change to its green bible, the EU Taxonomy: It proposed including natural gas as a sustainable transition fuel. The move would have notable effects on investors and companies. And would give natural gas a coveted green label by the EU. Then, a self-commissioned report by Rio Tinto revealed sexual assaults and culture of ‘systemic’ bullying at the Australian mining giant.
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Elchin Mammadov
Elchin Mammadov
Executive Director, MSCI Research
Samuel Block
Samuel Block
Vice President, ESG Research
Hanna Ogilvy, ESG Researcher, MSCI

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