CDP, the environmental NGO is calling on investors and firms to adapt quickly to a low carbon future. In a new report Out of the Starting Blocks, CDP in partnership with We Mean Business, presents its first annual …
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Nevsun Resources, (TSX: NSU / NYSE MKT: NSU) will face charges of forced labour in the Canadian courts, even though the allegations of slavery by its Bisha Mining Share Company subsidiary occurred in Eritrea. However, the three Eritrean men …
Read MoreThe Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand is consulting on a draft corporate governance (CG) code, which will replace the country’s principles of good corporate governance 2012, and a new investment governance code. The deadline for responses to …
Read MoreUK investment campaign group ShareAction has urged investors to use the binding votes on remuneration policy at BP and Shell in 2017 to ensure the oil majors can demonstrate their commercial strategies are aligned with a move to a low …
Read MoreCommunications firm BT has topped the rankings of Carbon Clear’s assessment of FTSE 100 company’s carbon reporting for the third year running.
The carbon advisory service’s survey scores the companies based on their monitoring, reporting and verification; their carbon strategy; …
Read MoreForty institutional investors, including Coller Capital, three Swedish state pension funds, Aviva, Nordea and Robeco have launched an engagement with 16 multinational food companies highlighting the material risks posed by industrial animal production. The coalition, which together manages $1.25 trillion …
Read MoreThomson Reuters has launched a Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Index which ranks the top 100 publicly traded companies globally with the most diverse and inclusive workplaces, as measured by 24 metrics across four key categories: diversity, inclusion, people development and …
Read MoreResponsible investment advocates have welcomed the government’s Local Government Pension Scheme guidance which provides a less prescriptive framework for investing as part of the requirement for local authorities to prepare their own investment strategy statement.
The guidance is to enable …
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