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Guidance for private equity signatories: US directors’ duties and ESG

2020-09-30T14:20:00Z

The legal duties imposed on directors of US companies incorporated in Delaware require them to take into account material ESG factors and permit them to take other ESG factors into account when rationally related to stockholder interests when discharging their duties.

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Theme 3: Covid-19, privacy rights and cyber security risks

2020-09-07T08:42:00Z

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have introduced measures around bio-surveillance, censorship and misinformation that could have significant impacts on privacy rights. 

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Theme 2: supporting suppliers and building resilient supply chains

2020-09-07T08:40:00Z

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the lack of resilience of supply chains in respect of labour rights during a large-scale disruption. 

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Theme 1: protecting workers’ rights through the Covid-19 crisis

2020-09-07T08:37:00Z

 The COVID-19 crisis is primarily a public health emergency, but its consequences have shown that it is much more than that. While there is a sense that the pandemic is a collective phenomenon, the stark reality is that it hits the most vulnerable hardest. 

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Covid-19 and human and labour rights concerns

2020-09-07T08:15:00Z

In March 2020, the PRI launched two discussion forums on the PRI collaboration platform to collect investor experiences relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Q&A: Rodrigo Garcia, Deputy State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the Office of the Illinois State Treasurer

2020-08-20T10:26:00Z

By Carol Jeppesen, Head of US, PRI 

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Broadening the outreach to ESG information providers

2020-08-06T08:39:00Z

As well as continuing to engage with CRAs, the results from this survey will inform future discussions with ESG information providers, to help fixed income investors to best use available tools and analysis for ESG integration in their investment decisions. 

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AGM season during the COVID-19 pandemic: trends and themes

2020-07-23T08:45:00Z

The 2020 AGM season has been unique. The record levels of support seen across 2019’s environmental and social proposals, alongside increasingly urgent climate action and commitments by huge corporates and investors to stakeholder capitalism, set the stage for an interesting season. In addition to this, the COVID-19 crisis has, in ...

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Climatic Tipping Point – Why Investors Should Care

This report highlights how climate tipping points determine how the Earth’s system functions as a whole, with a focus on deforestation within the Amazon rainforest.

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ESG, credit risk and COVID-19

2020-05-28T10:56:00Z

Issuers’ crisis preparations and responses, and bondholder engagement, are two key areas of focus when considering the credit implications of the COVID-19 pandemic through an environmental, social and governance (ESG) lens.

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AGM Season 2020: investor questions on COVID-19

2020-05-21T11:07:00Z

This guidance (co-developed by the PRI, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, California State Teachers’ Retirement System and APG) provides investors with ESG-related questions to ask investee companies’ – at annual general meetings (AGMs) and in follow-up engagements – about their responses to COVID-19.

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How responsible investors should respond to the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis

2020-03-27T10:43:00Z

The COVID-19 pandemic – and the global response to it – is a serious threat not only to global health, but to our communities, our economies and our investments.

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ESG and alpha in China

2020-03-18T08:39:00Z

Evidence demonstrates ESG incorporation outperforms traditional benchmarks in China

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A blueprint for mobilizing finance against slavery and trafficking

2019-11-29T16:25:00Z

Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking’s Blueprint provides a collective action framework for the whole financial sector and professional service providers to accelerate action to end modern slavery and human trafficking.

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Takeaways from the EM forums

2019-11-28T11:54:00Z

The emerging market forums completed the global series that gathered credit practitioners from investors and CRAs to discuss ESG topics. 

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Guidance for private equity signatories: directors’ duties and ESG

The legal duties imposed on UK company directors require them, when exercising their powers, to understand and anticipate relevant risks to, and opportunities for, the company, including those related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Directors should ensure that their company has processes to identify, manage and mitigate or ...

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EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

The EU Taxonomy is a tool to help investors understand whether an economic activity is environmentally sustainable. 

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ESG data in China: recommendations for primary ESG indicators

2019-06-12T15:21:00Z

This report aims to provide recommendations for China’s future, mandatory environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure framework, prepared by its financial regulators. 

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Encouraging responsible tax behaviour: What investors need to know

2019-04-26T10:56:00Z

Investors want to know their portfolio companies are paying taxes in line with their business activities, as aggressive tax planning costs governments billions of dollars of revenue, and creates market distortions in both developed and developing countries.

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Using the EU taxonomy

2019-03-03T14:16:00Z

Building up on the EU sustainable finance programme, PRI’s Chief Responsible Investment Officer and Rapporteur for the EU taxonomy, Technical Expert Group Nathan Fabian introduces the EU taxonomy following the publication of the Technical Expert Group report.