All Podcast articles – Page 7
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PodcastRare earth minerals
Hongqiao Liu (China Water Risk) joins the PRI’s Gemma James to discuss rare earth minerals and their importance to investors. As a key component in many new technologies, such as electronics and renewable energy, the sustainable supply of these “vitamins of industry” is becoming increasingly critical.
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PodcastResponsible investment news roundup - April 2017
Five-minute roundup of the latest responsible investment and ESG news. This month’s topics include the sale of the UK Green Investment Bank, investments and divestments by the Ford Foundation and PKA, and new reports from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project and OECD.
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PodcastWhy closing the ESG information gap is smart business
David Harris (Group Head of Sustainable Business, London Stock Exchange Group), Christopher Szpojnarowicz (Company Secretary & Head of Legal, Unite Students) and James Corah (Head of Ethical and Responsible Investment, CCLA) join the PRI’s Nathan Fabian to discuss recent work by the UN’s Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative and its partners ...
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PodcastThe roadmap to full ESG integration
Robert Eccles (Chairman of Arabesque Partners) and Mirtha Kastrapeli (Head of Sustainable Investment Research at State Street’s Center for Applied Research) join the PRI’s Danielle Chesebrough to discuss their recent paper The Investing Enlightenment based on global surveys of 582 institutional investors and 750 retail investors.
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PodcastResponsible investment news roundup - March 2017
Five-minute roundup of the latest responsible investment and ESG news. This month’s topics include Lloyds’ report on stranded assets, the new Fish Tracker Initiative, ACTIAM’s water-neutrality goal, NAB and gender equality bonds, and the Shareholders’ Rights Directive.
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PodcastCorporate tax responsibility
Robert Wilson (MFS Investment Management) joins the PRI’s Athanasia Karananou to discuss the issue of tax and why this matters to investors. This covers Robert’s work as part of a PRI-led investor taskforce to explore and engage on the issue of corporate tax responsibility.
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PodcastResponsible investment news roundup - November 2016
Five-minute roundup of the latest responsible investment and ESG news. This month’s topics include the the Marrakech Climate Change Conference (COP22), oil and gas companies, the car emissions scandal (Renault and VW), and Rio Tinto.
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PodcastMethane in the oil and gas sector
Sean Wright (Environmental Defense Fund) and Matthias Beer (BMO GAM) join the PRI’s Gemma James to discuss why methane emissions are a material issue for investors in the context of climate change. This coincides with the launch of a new investor guide to methane on how to manage the risks ...
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PodcastCorporate climate lobbying in the U.S.
Kathy Mulvey (Union of Concerned Scientists) joins the PRI’s Paul Chandler to discuss why corporate lobbying on climate change matters to investors, as well as the findings from UCS’ new report: The Climate Accountability Scorecard - Ranking Major Fossil Fuel Companies on Climate Deception, Disclosure, and Action.
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PodcastResponsible investment news roundup - October 2016
Five-minute roundup of the latest responsible investment and ESG news. This month’s topics include the flurry of recent global climate deals, Yahoo’s data breach, gender diversity in mining and Morningstar’s new sustainability indices.
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PodcastResponsible investment news roundup - September 2016
Five-minute roundup of the latest responsible investment and ESG news.
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PodcastCorporate ownership transparency
Secret or anonymously-owned companies pose a number of risks to shareholders - both financial and non-financial. This is primarily due to the difficulty in identifying the actual (“beneficial”) owners. Eryn Schornick (Global Witness) joins the PRI’s Olivia Mooney to discuss the issue, as well as the tools available to investors ...
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PodcastShipbreaking practices
Shipbreaking is one of the world’s most dangerous occupations, with severe impacts on human rights and the environment. Annie Bersagel (KLP) joins the PRI’s Valeria Piani to explain why this is important to investors and encourages them to join their current engagement on responsible ship recycling.
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PodcastResponsible investment news roundup - August 2016
Five-minute roundup of the latest responsible investment and ESG news.
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PodcastA case for enhanced transparency
Steve Waygood (Aviva Investors) and Toby Heaps (Corporate Knights) join the PRI’s Danielle Chesebrough to discuss the current state of sustainability reporting, and identify the key next steps exchanges, regulators, investors and international organizations (such as IOSCO and IASB) should take to improve the quality and consistency of ESG disclosures ...
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PodcastSocio-economic inequality
Sudip Hazra (Kepler Cheuvreux) joins the PRI’s Valeria Piani to discuss why inequality matters to global businesses and their shareholders.
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PodcastFactory farming
Jeremy Coller (Coller Capital) joins the PRI’s Valeria Piani to discuss factory farming and FAIRR (Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return), an investor initiative that aims to put the issue on the ESG agenda.
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PodcastLabour standards in the supply chain - a supplier perspective
Charlie Bradshaw (Matrix APA) joins the PRI’s Felicitas Weber to discuss how to address poor labour conditions in global supply chains, looking at the supplier perspective. The PRI are also re-launching their collaborative engagement on labour practices in agricultural supply chains, with an investor expectations statement open for all signatories ...
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PodcastProxy access in the USA
Scott Zdrazil (New York City Comptroller) joins the PRI’s Olivia Mooney to discuss the development of proxy access in the USA. This includes an overview of the Boardroom Accountability Project, the company response so far and advice for investors on how to engage on the issue.
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PodcastCulture and conduct at banks
Paul Cox (NEST), Tim Tookey (Nationwide) and Bess Joffe (TIAA) join Schroders’ Jessica Ground to discuss the action that investors can take to help improve the culture and conduct within the banking sector.
