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PRI Seeks End to ‘Box-ticking’ Approach to Stewardship

Chris Hall

The PRI is also establishing a technical working group to act as a “sounding board” on issues including stewardship practices, capacity constraints and resourcing models. A report is scheduled to be published ahead of the PRI in Person 2023 event in October. But it also identified wide differences in practices and budgets deployed.

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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

As support for climate-led shareholder rebellions at oil and gas firms remained stubbornly stuck at one-in-five, exemplified at Shell’s eventful AGM , some long-term investors seemed to signal the end of the recent phase of carbon-fuelled engagement. End of the line? – C of global heating to migrate by the end of the century.