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Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder engagement in sustainable finance ensures financial decision-making is informed by stakeholder perspectives, improving ESG risk management and responsible investment. Financial institutions, investors, and asset managers engage with communities, regulators, and civil society to assess material risks, enhance stewardship, and align capital flows with sustainability goals. Proactive engagement mitigates financial risks related to ESG issues, strengthens accountability, and supports regulatory compliance. It also creates investment opportunities in sustainable finance, including impact investing, climate transition funding, and nature-positive strategies.
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Guiding principles on business and human rights: Implementing the United Nations protect, respect and remedy framework
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights is a report that implements the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ framework, regarding the obligations of states and responsibilities of business to ensure that human rights are protected and respected throughout all business operations and ultimately remedied when breached.
Poverty Footprint
The Poverty Footprint is a tool that enables companies and partners to implement a people-centred assessment of corporate impacts on poverty. The report is used to better understand the impacts of operations and value chain on people and poverty, and to turn this learning into action.
SDG Industry Matrix: Energy, natural resources and chemicals
The Industry Matrix aims to inspire and inform the private sector, driving it towards inclusiveness and sustainable prosperity by identifying opportunities for greater social and environmental change. This Matrix applies to industries involved in energy, natural resources and chemicals, outlining ways that companies can create value for shareholders as well as society.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global, CEO-led organisation of over 200 leading international companies that work cooperatively to accelerate a successful transition into a sustainable world. WBCSD focuses on making member companies more successful by maximising the positive impact for shareholders, the environment and society.
ESG considerations in fixed income: Observation of 10 ESG integration trends
This paper shares key ESG integration trends that Russell Investments has found in the fixed income market. It is based off observations derived from their 2019 Annual ESG Manager Survey and discussions with fixed income market practitioners looking at ESG considerations and implementations in their investment process.
The impact investing journey: Aligning portfolio with purpose
This report describes how a philanthropic organisation uses impact investing throughout its portfolio. Society has changed its view on ethical investing, and The Russell Family Foundation has implemented this in their mission. Three pillars of their portfolio target social, environmental and financial areas of investing, and these allow them to achieve their company objectives.
Digging deeper: Human rights and the extractives sector
The report examines significant human rights issues in the extractives sector value chain, and summarises the key outcomes and insights of a PRI-coordinated (Principles for Responsible Investment) engagement with companies. Importantly, the report highlights the key elements that investors should consider when engaging with mining, oil and gas companies.
Guide to unlocking prosperity: Finance, investment and sustainable development
Companies and institutional investors can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their business activities and investment decisions. This guide lists the many actions that these financial industry participants can take to achieve these goals across sectors including education, clean energy, agriculture, and health.
In focus: Addressing investor needs in business reporting on the SDGs
This report aims to integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the business reporting process. This is done by providing perspectives and recommendations on key parameters to effectively inform investor decision-making processes. This report builds on current available disclosures and does not intend to create a new reporting framework.
The SDG investment case
Companies and institutional investors are being asked to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their business activities, asset allocation and investment decisions. The SDG investment case tries to answer the question: Why are the SDGs relevant to institutional investors?
What is responsible investment?
This article defines responsible investment, highlights the ways in which it is currently applied to managing assets, and outlines the key forces driving its growth. Additionally, it discusses common misconceptions about responsible investment.
Focusing Capital on the Long Term Global
Focusing Capital on the Long Term Global (FCLTGlobal) is dedicated to developing practical tools and approaches that encourage long-term behaviours in business and investment decision-making. The focus of their work is on the financial needs and ambitions of everyday savers, whose own long-term goals are often lost in the complexity of the financial markets.
