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Corporate Strategy
Corporate strategy involves the comprehensive plan a company employs to achieve its long-term objectives, encompassing decisions on resource allocation, market participation, and competitive positioning. Integrating sustainability into corporate strategy enables organisations to create long-term stakeholder value. This approach offers advantages such as enhancing brand value, meeting consumer demands, increasing efficiency, attracting top talent, and opening new market opportunities.
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Building peace and prosperity: What business can do
A brief look at the policies and actions stakeholders can do to confront and prevent violent conflict in high-risk areas. Actions are laid out for businesses, governments, the United Nations, investment community, and civil society. Multi-stakeholder initiatives to support building and investing in peace are presented.
Taking the carbon out of credit: An integrated approach to removing climate emissions from lending
This report makes a complete case for banks and lending institutions to avoid further damaging of the climate. It provides both justification for why this is an important financial undertaking, and principles for how to go about and do it.
Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a global management consulting firm that services other firms, governments and society. They offer multiple capabilities in areas such as risk management, strategy, climate and sustainability. Their services cover a wide variety of industries including automotive, energy and nature resources, industrial products, financial services and education.
RockCreek
RockCreek is a global investment firm known for their innovation and focus on sustainability. With $15 billion in assets, they invest in a diverse portfolio of entrepreneurs, companies and investors. They focus on climate and sustainable opportunities across multi-asset class solutions.
Private equity and value creation: A fund manager's guide to gender-smart investing
This report examines the increase in adoption of gender-smart investing within the private equity industry by general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs). Lessons from over 160 fund managers have been utilised in this step-by-step guide to choosing gender-smart investment strategies, and putting policies into practice within firms and portfolios.
Tracking the transition
This report examines the impact of China’s coal-fired power companies, and their inaction in responding to climate change. The report presents China’s six largest listed power companies and their associated CO2 emissions, as well as recommendations for investors to act on.
Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered is a global bank with a distinctive network that stretches across core emerging markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and beyond. The bank has 85,000 employees and a presence in 59 markets, serving customers in close to 150 markets worldwide.
Heliocene
Heliocene is a knowledge platform presenting a deliberately small set of continually updated articles on the vast, fast-moving topic of business sustainability. The organisation is devoted to delivering information on global best practice business sustainability to a New Zealand corporate audience.
SDG bonds and corporate finance: A roadmap to mainstream investments
This report describes how a market for mainstream investments that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), could be created with enough liquidity, scale, and diversification, to attract a range of investors. It inspires and guides companies, governments, and cities, to benefit from better funding while implementing the Paris Goals.
Global Governance Principles
The Global Governance Principles (GGPs) from the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) are corporate governance standards that act as a framework for well-governed companies to follow. The GGPs are widely applicable, irrespective of national legislative frameworks or listing rules.
Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, otherwise known as MISTRA, is an independent think tank that takes a long-term view on the strategic challenges facing South Africa, the continent and the globe. MISTRA supports public and private sector participants through generating research and creating platforms for engagement.
Corporate climate transition plans: A guide to investor expectations
A climate transition plan is a time-bound plan that outlines how a company will align its business model with its decarbonisation goals. The report focuses on expectations for a climate transition plan, including interim and long-term emissions reductions, and strategies and actions to meet these targets.
FAIRR's meat sourcing engagement series
The "Global Investor Engagement on Meat Sourcing" series report highlights dialogues between major quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands and institutional investors. Initiated in 2019, it focuses on urging QSRs to address climate and water risks in their protein supply chains, emphasising greenhouse gas reduction and water risk management.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
A global law firm that works with national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer specialises in legal services such as tax, intellectual property, antitrust, finance, real estate and corporate.
Collaborative for Frontier Finance
Collaborative for Frontier Finance (CFF) is a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to increase access to capital for small and growing businesses in emerging markets. CFF works with diverse stakeholders- including local capital providers and institutional investors to accelerate financing solutions that target Small and Growing Businesses.
Institutional asset owners: Strategies for engaging with asset managers for impact
This report explores strategies to better align institutional asset owners with asset managers when managing impact expectations and outcomes. When institutional investors incorporate impact, they can mitigate issues that threaten the long-term value of their assets, and leverage their capital to help address the world's most intractable challenges.
