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This session takes a deep dive into the sustainability lens from a large corporate view and how investors and corporates are working together to create lasting impact.[vc_quotes layout=”accordion” 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We set bold ambitions with decade-long timeframes.
Even during the pandemic, positive work must keep moving. If something is truly core to your strategies, find a way to maintain momentum in the short-term to achieve long-term targets.
Targets must be clearly defined and clearly understood.
Business planning is critical to achieving growth, not just mitigating risk.
There is significant value in having your impact data independently audited.
CocaCola has created 1000 new recipes and this was in part due to strategy and sustainability engagement with Robeco.
It is critically important to focus the business strategy around what the public most care about.
The right behaviours must be incentivised appropriately for both short- and long-term.
When investors demonstrate care through engagement, so will everybody else.
‘Robeco have made us better. They forced us to wake up. They forced us to make sure we did not become obsolete.’
I cheer the investment community for driving investee companies in the right direction.
Peter
We challenge companies on their strategic direction. It is important that investee companies have a clear North Star.
Tension through the engagement process can help achieve better outcomes. Have the courage to ask investee companies whether their strategy transformation is moving fast enough.
It is important to identify where sustainability efforts can be accelerated. There must be a long-term commitment to engagement.
One of the most important, upcoming challenges at CalSTRS is how the fund should evaluate Chinese investments from a human capital and environmental standpoint, says Chris Ailman, chief investment officer at the giant pension fund.
Businesses have a huge role to play in containing global environmental risks. And because they have great leverage on companies, so too do investors. The idea of “ethical” or “green” investing has gained ground in recent years, but it is hampered by a lack of quantitative definitions.
A conversation with Ray Dalio, co-chair and co-CIO of Bridgewater Associates, to air at the upcoming Sustainability Conference looks at how capitalism has lost its way, and the possible solutions for getting it back on track.
In this episode Amanda White talks with engagement specialist at Robeco, Peter van der Werf, about the importance of engagement; what good engagement looks like; and what financially material sustainability themes are important right now.
In conversation with Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the PRI, this episode looks specifically at some of the activities of the PRI and its engagement with stakeholders around COVID-19, their ESG priorities and what a sustainable recovery looks like.
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