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Report13 November 2024
The costs of low pay - a responsible investment guide on tackling low pay in the UK retail sector
The UK’s biggest retailers have an important role to play in boosting the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of workers to help shape fairer, healthier societies. However, the business model for the UK retail sector is built on poverty pay and insecure contracts. Household names such as Next and JD Sports are failing to provide their workforce with a real Living Wage, leaving millions of workers living in poverty and struggling to afford basics like heating and food. This doesn’t just harm low-paid workers’ quality of life, it harms the economy too by driving inequality, hindering productivity and adding pressure on state resources through increased health and welfare cost, posing a threat to the long-term interests of shareholders. In our briefing, we have published new guidance for investors in the UK retail sector warning them of the long-term financial risks of failing to pay the real Living Wage, and setting out a responsible investment approach to raise standards. We believe in the fair treatment of workers, and this briefing is part of our work with investors to demand that companies change their employment practices to ensure everyone has access to decent work.
Report07 November 2024
SUSTAIN - Why nature-loss is material for your financial institution
The Strengthening Understanding and Strategies of Business to Assess and Integrate Nature (SUSTAIN) project provides businesses, financial institutions, and regulatory bodies with the knowledge and resources to better understand, assess, and monitor the dependencies and impacts on nature from activities across different sectors of the economy. The briefing for investors, highlights the critical need for materiality screening to understand nature-related impacts, dependencies and risks. It is designed for investors just getting started on their journey to address nature-related issues.
Report05 November 2024
Mind the strategy gap: how disjointed climate targets are setting banks up to miss net-zero
Europe’s biggest banks have a vital role to play in financing the transition to a low carbon economy. However, our research has found that the climate targets of Europe’s 20 largest banks are not fit for purpose. Their decarbonisation targets are too narrow, their sustainable finance targets are not rooted in clear, robust methodology, and they are not sufficiently aligned with one another. This means it is unlikely the banks' current climate targets will succeed in shifting enough financing away from fossil fuels toward renewable power, green infrastructure and technologies at the speed and scale we need to prevent a dangerously heated world. In our report, we are urging banks to set climate targets that are ambitious, transparent and coherent. This is vital for banks to show how they plan to shift financing to critical parts of the transition, such as expanding renewable energy and making real estate more energy efficient.
Briefing10 September 2024
Risk Management in Protected Areas
We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, with the current rate of species extinction estimated at 100 times that in pre-human times. Protected areas are an instrumental conservation tool, with demonstrated impacts on the reduction of species extinction risk and threats to the associated ecosystems and species richness. An internationally recognised area-based conservation mechanism with regulatory support across the globe, protected areas feature prominently in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). In cooperation with UNEP-WCMC, this guidance calls for investors to recognise the vital role of protected areas as a tool for biodiversity conservation and take the recommendations above as guidance to strengthen their investment policies, capital allocation and portfolio stewardship processes.
Report11 April 2024
Insuring Disaster 2024
This is ShareAction's third benchmark of the insurance sector. It assess the policies and practices of 65 of the world's largest insurance companies across a range of environmental and social issues. In this report we assess three different types of insurers: . Life & Health (L&H) insurers . Insurers with a relevant property and casualty business (P&C) . Lloyd's of London's managing agents (MA) Three ranking tables outlining the performance of insurance companies can be found at the bottom of this page.
Briefing15 January 2024
Clearing the Air
A pathbreaking guide for companies and investors to start tackling the air quality crisis.
Report11 January 2024
Voting Matters 2023: Are asset managers using their proxy votes for action on environmental and social issues?
Are asset managers using their proxy votes for action on environmental and social issues?
Statement18 December 2023
ShareAction Letter Responding to the Financial Conduct Authority's consultation paper on diversity & inclusion
Major UK investors, co-ordinated by ShareAction, have written to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) urging the regulator to act on racial equality by introducing mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting for financial institutions.
Report06 December 2023
RISE Paper 2 - Introducing a standardised framework for escalating engagement with companies
ShareAction is introducing the concept of a standard escalation framework to facilitate the application of escalation tools with companies through corporate debt and listed equity.
Report22 November 2023
Green Ambitions, Grey Realities: European Banks’ journey from pledges to practice
Europe’s largest 20 banks' are leaving themselves open to allegations of greenwashing, due to a widespread lack of transparency on green finance policies.
