All Stewardship articles – Page 10
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PRI Web PageVoting
Voting on agenda items at annual general meetings (AGMs) allow investors to use their formal rights as owners to publicly and transparently communicate and escalate important matters, and directly interact with a company’s board.
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ArticleAGM 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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WebinarBeyond Divestment: Climate Change Strategies for Endowments
This joint PRI and IEN webinar will explore the investment implications of climate change and highlight tools and resources endowments can leverage to develop a thoughtful climate strategy.
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ArticleAGM 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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Blog postHighlights of the signatory survey on passive strategies and ESG
By Toby Belsom, Director, Investment Practices
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ArticleHow 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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Discussion paperActive Ownership 2.0: the evolution stewardship urgently needs
A framework for the future of stewardship where investors seek outcomes, prioritise systemic sustainability issues, and use collaboration as an integral tool to overcome the collective action problem.
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Case studyPRI Awards 2019 case study: Australian Infrastructure Sustainability Project
Company: IFM Investors HQ: Australia Category: Active Ownership Project of the Year (shortlisted)
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Case studyPRI Awards 2019 case study: Platform Living Wage Financials
Company: MN (on behalf of the PLWF) HQ: Netherlands Category: Active Ownership Project of the Year (winner)
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Case studyPRI Awards 2019 case study: Cadmos Peace Investment Fund
Company: de Pury Pictet Turrettini (PPT) HQ: Switzerland Category: Active Ownership Project of the Year (shortlisted)
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Discussion paperHow can a passive investor be a responsible investor?
Passive funds and responsible investment have been two of the key themes in asset management over the last 10 years.
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Blog postVale dam collapse reignites mining safety pressure from investors
By Elena Espinoza, Manager, Social Issues, the PRI
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DDQResponsible investment DDQ for forestry investors
This responsible investment due diligence questionnaire (DDQ) has been developed to help investors appraising potential forestry investment managers to evaluate how a manager handles environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
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DDQResponsible investment DDQ for farmland investors
This responsible investment due diligence questionnaire (DDQ) has been developed to help investors appraising potential farmland investment managers to evaluate how a manager handles environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
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Technical guide
Implementing the TCFD recommendations for oil and gas methane disclosure: introduction
Investors broadly recognize climate change as a material risk and opportunity for their portfolios and expect company disclosure commensurate with that fact.
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Technical guide
Implementing the TCFD recommendations for oil and gas methane disclosure: focus on strategy
Methane management is a key strategic challenge for oil and gas companies (See Table 1). Investors will read the strategy section of a TCFD report to understand how methane-related risks and opportunities impact its business, and how met hane mitigation is integrated into the company’s shortand long-term strategies.
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Technical guide
Implementing the TCFD recommendations for oil and gas methane disclosure: focus on risk management
The risk management section of the TCFD focuses on the processes a company has in place to ident ify, assess, prioritize and mitigate climate-related risks.
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Technical guide
Implementing the TCFD recommendations for oil and gas methane disclosure: focus on metrics and targets
The last part of the TCFD’s four-part framework focuses on the metrics and targets companies use to assess and manage material climate-related risks and opportunities.
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Technical guide
Implementing the TCFD recommendations for oil and gas methane disclosure: illustrative implementation
The table below is an il lustrative roadmap of implementation phases for the previous recommendations. The outline is a suggestion, with recognition that each company is on an ind ividual disclosure journey, with varying levels of existing reporting and resources. Adapted from TCFD Secretariat presentation “Beginning the Journey” March 2018.
