The European Commission has launched a consultation to gain views on how asset managers and institutional investors could include environmental, social and governance factors when taking decisions.
The consultation follows up on one of the eight early recommendations delivered by …
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) used the COP 23 UN climate change meeting in Bonn to publish its 2017 progress report on the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships initiative (LCTPi) which shows the action companies are taking to …
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Investors for Opioid Accountability (IOA), a US coalition which includes asset managers, faith-based, public and trades union pension funds with over $1.3 trillion in assets have filed multiple shareholder resolutions on board oversight of business risks related to opioids at
More asset owners globally are taking diversity more seriously internally within their organisations, in respect of how they, with their investment consultants, assess external fund managers and in respect of how investee companies are dealing with the issue, according to …
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More firms have included low-carbon goals in their long-term future business plans according to a global survey from CDP tracking how companies are responding to climate change. This was CDP’s second annual report monitoring the response of business to the …
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Truck manufacturer Scania, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, was the final truck manufacturer to be fined recently for being part of a cartel with five other firms by the European Commission. The other truck-makers settled with the Commission last year.
