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Do ESG information providers meet the needs of fixed income investors?
Read the conclusions of our discussion with 20 ESG information providers on how useful their data and product offerings are for fixed income investors and where they need to improve.
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Climate Accounting Analyses
In Sept 2020 investor groups including the PRI called upon companies to reflect climate-related risks in financial reporting. Between March and May 2021, the PRI commissioned a series of climate accounting analyses for 52 Climate Action 100+ focus companies coordinated by PRI and AIGCC. These analyses, available to download below, ...
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ESG-linked pay: What does the research say?
This article examines the academic evidence around ESG-linked pay and the role it can play in incentivising and rewarding ESG performance
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ESG-linked pay: Recommendations for investors
A set of investor recommendations on driving more meaningful integration of ESG metrics in executive pay, including through voting
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How asset owners and their managers can work together on ESG goals
Following the release of our technical guides on selecting, appointing and monitoring investment managers, the PRI convened a number of panel discussions to talk through how asset owners can work collaboratively with investment managers throughout the selection, appointment and monitoring process.
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PRI response to IFRS Foundation Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting
The PRI welcomes the IFRS Foundation’s proposal for a Sustainability Standards Board, and recommends that this covers all sustainability topics, builds on existing initiatives and adopts a modular approach to harmonisation that recognises the different perspectives and needs across jurisdictions and stakeholders.
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Q&A: Angela Miller-May, Chief Investment Officer, Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund
By Carol Jeppesen, Head of US, PRI and Shaska Chirinos, Relationship Manager, US, PRI
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Guidance for private equity signatories: US directors’ duties and ESG
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
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
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
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
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
By Carol Jeppesen, Head of US, PRI
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Broadening the outreach to ESG information providers
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
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
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
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
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
Evidence demonstrates ESG incorporation outperforms traditional benchmarks in China