Category: Engagement

engagement

Will 2023 see the acceleration of ‘engagement washing’?   High-profile coalitions such as Nature Action 100+ have been launched in recent months, but some are concerned that engagement is becoming a ‘fig leaf’ to excuse investments in companies facing too high barriers to exit, reported Siri Christiansen on CityWire in December 2022. The latest Climate[…]

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emissions

Five questions to Andrea Baranes, senior analist at Fondazione Finanza Etica, Italian member of SfC.   On 12 October, SfC’s founding member Fondazione Finanza Etica presented the “Fifth Report on Ethical and Value-Based Finance in Europe” at the European Parliament in Brussels. A session was dedicated to the measurement and disclosure of GHG emissions associated[…]

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Many SfC members are engaging companies on the risk of Uyghur Forced Labor in global supply chains. Isotope (and DNA) analysis could be a new issue on which to engage the textile industry.   A comprehensive shareholder engagement campaign targeting companies potentially exposed (directly or indirectly) to human rights abuses in the Uyghur Region, in[…]

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namibia engagement

SfC German member Bank für Kirche und Caritas (BKC) concludes two-year engagement dialogue successfully   Namibia officially becomes the 184th state to join the UN Biological Weapons Convention, which has been in place since 1971. Bank für Kirche und Caritas, German founding member of SfC, has been in close exchange with several high-ranking Namibian State[…]

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engage climate

“Making finance work for the climate requires a mix of both effective engagement and exclusion”, explained Lucie Pinson, founder and executive director of Reclaim Finance in a webinar hosted as part of SfC’s winter meeting, on 2 December. Engagement can influence the business models of companies and tackle hard-to-abate yet essential economic activities (e.g. the[…]

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engagement

Five questions to Edmond Schaff, portfolio manager of Sanso Investment Solutions, French member of SfC   Edmond, Sanso has been engaging asset managers on ESG issues for four years now. What is the purpose of your engagement?  Approximately one third of Sanso IS’s assets are invested in funds managed by third party asset management companies.[…]

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gas nuclear

Florence, 15 November 2021   A proposal to bring both nuclear power and natural gas into the EU’s green finance taxonomy is circulating in Brussels, according to media sources. The so-called “non-paper” lays out detailed technical criteria for gas to qualify as a transitional activity under the EU’s sustainable finance rules. Mauro Meggiolaro, coordinator of the European investor network SfC –[…]

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deforestation

On 16 September 2021, after collecting international best practices in the fight against deforestation, SfC Swiss member Ethos has published an Engagement Paper to initially engage seven multinational companies particularly exposed to deforestation risks. “We want to encourage companies to implement concrete and targeted measures to stop the destruction of forests”, says Matthias Narr, Head[…]

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Namibia

Five questions to Tommy Piemonte, head of sustainability research at Bank für Kirche und Caritas (BKC), founding member of SfC   Tommy, in 2020, for the first time your bank has decided to engage with a State, Namibia. Why? Namibia is one of the 14 UN member states that have not yet joined or ratified[…]

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