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Consultation Responses20 February 2025
ShareAction response FRC Stewardship Code
ShareAction’s response to the UK Stewardship Code review, which calls on the FRC to maintain the link between stewardship and environmental and social factors by retaining the existing definition of stewardship
Joint Statement12 February 2025
Joint letter to Commissioner Albuquerque over the European Commissions' 2025 work plan
Following the release of the European Commission’s 2025 work plan, ShareAction and 21 organisations and experts sent a letter to Commissioner for Financial Services Maria Luís Albuquerque, urging immediate action to raise capital requirements for fossil fuel assets. In a report published on 7 November 2024, and endorsed by the 27 national insurance supervisors, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) confirmed that stocks and bonds linked to unsustainable activities—particularly fossil fuels—pose higher financial risks. EIOPA recommended that the Commission act to address these risks and safeguard financial stability. Yet, the Commission’s work plan fails to include any initiative on this issue, despite its critical role in protecting both the financial system and public trust in insurers to manage future risks.
Joint Statement16 December 2024
ERIN letter to Maria Luis Albuquerque
Together with 15 civil society organisations from the European Responsible Investment Network (ERIN) network, we have sent a letter to the new Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investment Union, Maria Luís de Albuquerque, urging bold action on sustainable finance in the EU over the next five years and sharing our priorities for the new mandate.
Joint Statement12 December 2024
Smart implementation of EU sustainability reporting standards: make complying with rules easy
ShareAction, alongside over 90 organisations representing civil society, businesses, banks, and investors, calls on EU leaders to focus on smart and easy implementation of sustainability reporting standards. In response to EU Commission President von der Leyen’s recent Omnibus proposal, the joint statement expresses concern over the misrepresentation of EU sustainability reporting as a threat to competitiveness. It emphasises that reliable sustainability reporting is key to scaling up sustainable finance, managing risks, and driving long-term growth, while also offering practical solutions to address overcompliance challenges.
Consultation Responses18 October 2024
ShareAction’s response to the FCA’s consultation on the new Public Offers and Admission to Trading Regulations regime.
ShareAction’s response to the FCA’s consultation on the new Public Offers and Admission to Trading Regulations regime. Our response focused on the need to increase corporate disclosures during sustainable bond issuance, and pressed the FCA to introduce minimum standards around mainstream bond issuance.
Briefing09 September 2024
Policy briefing: Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
The Government's 'biodiversity net gain' (BNG) legislation requires developers to improve the natural habitat of land they're building on by at least 10%. This means that any new development, such as a building or road, should ultimately leave nature in a better state than it was before. However, for this scheme to truly succeed, the Government must make certain improvements. Our new briefing calls on policymakers to refine and enhance the existing BNG scheme. It details the key improvements needed to ensure the scheme is ambitious enough to address the urgency of the biodiversity crisis and start addressing biodiversity loss in the UK.
Joint Statement06 September 2024
Investor Air Quality Statement 2024
Many investors know that the health of communities isn't just a social priority, but also a financial one. That's why on the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, investors in our Long-term Investors in Peoples' Health (LIPH) programme, made a public statement calling on the Government to implement policies that require relevant sectors to disclose more consistent and easily comparable health-related data, including air pollution emissions across a company’s operational footprint. Once these are in place, the Government can set emissions limits to meaningfully lower emissions and reduce the economic and health damage caused by air pollution. #WorldCleanAirDay
Joint Statement19 August 2024
HM Treasury should expedite the regulation of investment consultants
Together with a number of other signatories, ShareAction has written to HM Treasury urging them to expedite plans to regulate all activities of investment consultants. At various times over the last ten years the Financial Conduct Authority, the Competition and Markets Authority, parliamentary committees and other interested parties have called for investment consultants to be brought within the FCA’s regulatory perimeter, and we hope that this will now be rapidly progressed.
Consultation Responses31 July 2024
ShareAction response to the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) request for feedback
The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) is a global initiative to develop recommendations that enable businesses and investors to effectively identify, assess, and report on their inequality and social-related risks, opportunities, and impacts. The TISFD Working Group requested feedback on technical scope of the TISFD, including its thematic scope, materiality approach, and interoperability with existing standards and frameworks. As the TISFD plans to prioritize disclosure recommendations of general relevance and/or that most meaningfully allow users of information to respond to widespread or significant social and inequality-related risks, opportunities and impact, we are advocating for health-related disclosures to be a priority.
Joint Statement30 July 2024
A green financial system can power sustainable economic growth.
15 CSOs call for an ambitious agenda on sustainable finance In a new joint briefing, 15 civil society organisations have come together to urge the new government to prioritise green finance, demonstrating to the world how to finance a just transition to a thriving low-carbon economy. We put forward ambitious but achievable recommendations for how the government can: 1. Set out an ambitious plan to invest in green growth. 2. Leverage the power of financial sector policy to drive green investment and end unsustainable financing. 3. Focus our public institutions on delivering green growth and prosperity.
