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Robeco to Engage Companies on Deforestation, Transition Materials Supply Chain Sustainability

ESG Today

According to Robeco, the firm chooses engagement themes each year through consultations with clients, its investment teams, and other external stakeholders. Ghislaine Nadaud, Senior Sustainability Investing Specialist at Robeco said: In our engagement with transition sectors, we will be not only focusing on downstream or upstream activities.

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Modern Slavery’s Accountability Gap

Chris Hall

They are therefore taking things into their own hands, actively engaging with companies to eliminate modern slavery from supply chains. This means they havent assessed the risks in their supply chains nor taken steps to adequately mitigate those risks, she tells ESG Investor.

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Effective Corporate Persuasion 

Chris Hall

However, according to the reports findings, only 6% of environmental and social proposals are successful, suggesting that shareholder voting has only limited influence in the pivot towards sustainable investment. Our research showed that collaboration across the supply chain helps firms get hold of the data that they need.

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EU Omnibus Creates Significant Legal Uncertainty

Chris Hall

Under the omnibus, such obligations would be limited to direct suppliers and not to a companys supply chain (including direct or indirect business partners), except where there is plausible information suggesting adverse impacts have or may arise at other levels of the supply chain.

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SBTi Limits Carbon Credit Use in Latest Guidance

Chris Hall

In December, a survey of more than 900 institutional investors by the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing found that nearly 40% of asset owners used carbon offsets to mitigate portfolio emissions, while 31% of asset managers said they offered clients offsets linked to specific products or aggregated emissions.

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Loud and Clear

Chris Hall

The right to engage Sophie Demaré, Sustainability Investment Analyst for Fixed Income at Federated Hermes, echoes these sentiments. This approach is often seen as necessary in the context of pressing systemic risks such as climate change. Bondholders just have different rights, and levers for engagement.”

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Fashion brands drag feet on their green promises

Eco-Business

Yet researchers, companies and industry insiders say that little has been done to push this along in their supply chains in major textile-producing countries like Bangladesh, India and Cambodia. Overall, Bangladeshi fashion suppliers face an investment gap of US$4.8 billion for cutting emissions by half by 2030, AII has said.