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Between 2006 and 2010, compared to control companies, the top 100 sustainable global companies
experienced significantly higher:
Sales Growth
ROA
Profits
Cash flows from certain operations
Inst Inv integrate ESG considerations into their investment decision making by using which factors
1) Strategic Asset Allocation
2) Investment Mandates
3) Applying a filter based on Ratings
4) Integrating into Financial Models
5) Using ESG factors to find investment opportunities
What type of private investors are under the jurisdiction of the Dept of Labor in the US and law are they subject to?
Pension plans are subject to ERISA which influences the private and private sectors as a whole
Where was the Kay review published and what were its two primary findings?
1)emphasised the need for a culture of long-term decision-making, trust
and stewardship to protect savers’ interests.
2) the essential role that
fiduciary duties play in the promotion of such a culture.
Also Short-
termism may leave companies less willing to take on projects (such as research and development) that may take multiple years – and patient capital – to develop. Furthermore, short-term investment strategies tend to ignore factors that are considered more long-term, such as ESG factors.
What was the aim of Technical Report on EU Taxonomy?
Improve the shared investor understanding on which business activities and sectors contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
What is the purpose of the EU Shareholder Rights Directive
Seeks to improve the level and
quality of investor engagement with their investee companies by aligning executive pay with corporate
performance
AND increasing disclosure on how an asset manager’s investment decisions contribute to the long-term performance of investee companies.
IWho introduced the concept of sustainable development and how was it first communicated?
UN through the commissioning of the Brundtlandt Report
Achieving a balance between GHG going in and out of the atmosphere is called what? When must this be reached?
New Zero by 2050 limit the rise in global temps to 1.5 C
Who/when was the first climate change bankrupcy?
PG&E in 2019 from Cali wildfires
What are the 4 broad groupings defined in the UN Global Compact and what is it?
UN Global Compact was launched in 2000
as a collaboration between leading companies and the UN.
claims to be the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world with over 8,000 corporate signatories
Broad categories include Human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
Which of the following is not among the challenges limiting the development of ESG
investing?
Lack of regulation or voluntary initiatives
What is the highest risk to the industry regarding greenwashing?
Negative impact on credibility of the industry
Environmental social trends with social impact include?
Climate Change, Transition risk, Water Scarcity and Mass Migration
Examples of External Stakeholders?
Stakeholder opposition, product liability, Social Opps, Animal Welfare
What is the Plaform Living Wage Financial?
Coaltion of Dutch Financial Institutions encouraging investee companies to address the non-payment of living wages in the supply chain
A company that plans to develop on ancestral land or use resources of a territory owned by
indigenous people, should establish what?
Free Prior Informed Consent
Different elements of EU Taxonomy screening are?
1) Substantially contribute to one of 6 environmental objectives
2)Do no significant harm to the other 5
3) Comply with minimum safeguards such as OECD for MEs or UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights
Modern UK Slavery Act mandates what?
For medium and large enterprises to provide a slavery and human trafficking statement each year which sets out steps to ensure modern slavery is not occurring in a business or its supply chain
FAIRR
Farm Animal INvestment Risk and Return is an investor initiative focused on particularly on the increased prevalence of antimicrobial resistance due to intensive farming practices and poor antibiotic
stewardship.
Access to Medicine Index
The tool analyses how 20 of the
world’s largest pharmaceutical companies are addressing access to medicine in 106 low- to middle-income
countries for 82 diseases,
What is the Corp Rights Benchmark?
a collaboration led by investors and civil society
organisations dedicated to creating the first open and public benchmark of corporate human rights
performance.
The CHRB provides a comparative snapshot year-on-year of the largest companies on the planet, looking at the
policies, processes and practices they have in place to systematise their human rights approach
Whats included in Labour Rights?
- freedom of association and protection of the right to organise;
- right to organise and collective bargaining;
- forced labour and abolition of forced labour;
- minimum age;
- worst forms of child labour;
- equal remuneration
- Discrimination
