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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. In concluding, I’ll stay true to its purpose by offering up one final (required) reading, a summary of academic research outlining success factors for corporate engagement.

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An Increasing Sense of Urgency

Chris Hall

In December 2020, the Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) set up an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance comprising business, financial and academic experts with observers of officials from pertinent ministries and agencies. Significant progress. This July the panel released its second progress report , revealing extent of progress.

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

Chris Hall

A 2019 study of the stewardship activities of the big three index fund managers – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – found that there was no engagement with 90% of investee companies over three years, with a further 5% of firms experiencing a single engagement.

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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

There may have been a range of responses then to the release of a new study by academics including Professor Tim Lenton, a leading authority on planetary boundaries , suggesting around a third of the global population could be forced by 2.7 °C C of global heating to migrate by the end of the century.