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Responsible Stewardship: Quality, not Quantity

Chris Hall

Rickard Nilsson, Director of Strategy and Growth at Esgaia, highlights recent academic insights into the effectiveness of ESG engagement. If divesting from harmful industries, communicate this publicly. The evidence here is clear: collaboration should play a central role in investors’ stewardship practices.

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Stewardship Nears Breaking Point

Chris Hall

Car manufacturer Toyota is facing a climate-focused shareholder resolution of its own, with Danish pension fund AkademikerPension demanding more transparency on the company’s climate lobbying practices. However, as institutional investors, academics, NGOs, investor networks and data providers congregated in London last week for ESG Investor ’s inaugural (..)

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Take Five: US AGs Cast a Long Shadow

Chris Hall

The firm’s first transition plan eschews divestment, but neither is it putting all its eggs in one basket, emphasising policy-focused engagement , including encouraging governments to provide the framework and incentives to boost electrification, thereby reducing fossil fuel dependence.