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Seven Ways to Spot Greenwashing

Chris Hall

Alexander True, Business Partner at Sarasin, offers seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. With this in mind, we have put together a shortlist of seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. Has your asset manager published a UK Stewardship Code statement?

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A Step Forward for Stewardship

Chris Hall

“The third pillar deals with how to develop stewardship guidelines and implement them, with the fourth pillar focusing on financial and non-financial reporting and how to report that information to stakeholders, as well as covering practical issues such as greenwashing.

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New Climate Rules and Guidance for UK Pensions

Chris Hall

These new requirements are part of a bigger push right across the economy for new standards on environmental reporting to weed out greenwashing and support our transition to a net zero financial system – for example, through our new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements ,” she said.

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An Increasing Sense of Urgency

Chris Hall

In 2020, the FSA tightened the Stewardship Code to redefine responsibilities and explicitly instruct institutional investors “to consider sustainability (medium- to long-term sustainability including ESG factors) according to their investment management strategies in the course of their constructive engagement with investee companies”.

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Responsible Stewardship: Quality, not Quantity

Chris Hall

Shareholder advocacy and engagement has certainly not been spared from the broader debate around widespread greenwashing in responsible investing. Even with a lot of guidance from the likes of Principles for Responsible Investment and others, there are still clear differences in investor practices.

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Overcoming the Challenges of Measuring Social Performance

Chris Hall

Scanning across to the Financial Reporting Council’s UK Stewardship Code, the 2020 Code represents a mature governance regime for UK-listed businesses. It has its origins in 1992’s Cadbury report and code, which covers the financial aspects of corporate governance.

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Bridging Asia’s ESG Information Gap

Chris Hall

This, coupled with a nascent taxonomy process, makes investors even more than usually vulnerable to greenwashing. . The region accounts for a rapidly rising share of ESG investment capital but only about 10% of the global ESG data market, according to estimates.