IFRS Foundation announces launch of sustainability standards board
A series of measures have been announced by the IFRS Foundation Trustees (IFRSFT) to provide global financial markets with high...
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UK announces five-year review to improve opportunities for women at the top of British business
The UK government has announced its backing for a new review to monitor the representation of women in the upper rungs of FTSE...
Majority support for E&S proposals almost doubles in US
Thirty-three environmental and social proposals won the backing of most voting shareholders this year, compared with 18 in 2020...
Is ESG relevant for mid & small-cap companies?
ESG has risen to become a dominant issue over the last two years. This has been driven by many factors, including greater...
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Nike shareholders vote on social proposals
Nike shareholders have given indications of significant support for a number of social measures – although none secured a majority...
Opinion: Corporate social responsibility is dead
SEC commissioner Allison Herren Lee recently spoke about a paradigm shift with respect to ESG. In a June 2021 address at the...
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Problem solver: Which ESG data requests should you respond to?
In this regular article, we ask IR professionals how they would respond to a specific operational issue. In this article, we asked...
Comment: What to do when investors feel there’s a misalignment on pay for performance
Executive compensation has been one of the most widely discussed issues for shareholders in recent history. Pay for performance is...
Assessing China’s radical climate goals
Betting against Chinese progress when it comes to commitments on climate change has been a losing strategy for some time now. You...
Telling your ESG story beyond the sustainability report: ESG on the earnings call
Across a series of articles, we look at case studies from investor relations teams that have held an ESG investor day, launched an...
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