ESG Archive

Covid-19 has raised the bar on the importance among investors of the social or S factor in ESG, almost to the same level as environmental factors, IROs were warned at the latest IR Magazine Think Tank – Europe. Corporate culture has been of growing interest to investors over the past five years, but how best to communicate that culture to inv...

IR Magazine and online sister publication Corporate Secretary are delighted to announce the short lists for their inaugural ESG Integration Awards. The winners, selected by an independent panel of judges, will be revealed following the ESG Integration Forum – Summer on Thursday, July 14 in New York. ...

Critical ESG issues, including plastic pollution and declining biodiversity, are failing to make the agendas of shareholder meetings despite rocketing numbers of ESG proposals over the past decade, according to a nonprofit financial think tank. ESG practices, metrics and regulations have been a strong theme during the US proxy voting season. The number of ESG proposals tabled for discussion at annual meetings has shot up 80 percent, finds research by Planet Tracker....

A new quota to boost female representation on corporate boards across the EU was provisionally approved last night, having stalled in the European Council (EC) for the last decade. The so-called Women on Boards directive targets the ‘under-represented sex’ – in the vast majority of cases women – and will see EU-listed companies required to have...