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Statement21 November 2024
Investor letter challenging food and drink sector to act on public health
Major investors, coordinated by ShareAction, have written to six CEOs of food and beverage manufacturers – including PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Mondelez – calling on the sector to be more transparent about the healthiness of its sales as a first step towards taking accountability for its significant impact on public health. Most of the investor signatories are part of ShareAction’s Long-Term Investors in People’s Health initiative, which encourages the integration of health as a responsible investment theme to help build healthier, fairer societies.
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.
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.
Report06 October 2023
Assessment of the six largest pesticide companies’ approaches to addressing biodiversity loss
The world’s largest pesticide companies must address their role in biodiversity loss and start to transition their business models away from hazardous pesticides.
Briefing21 July 2023
EMS-Chemie Holding AG - why investors should vote against re-electing the chair of the board of directors
ShareAction is calling for investors to vote against the reelection of Mr Bernhard Merki, chair of the board of EMS-Chemie Holding AG (EMSN, SWX), at the company’s AGM on 12 August 2023. This briefing sets out why Mr Merki is failing to perform his duties, and why it is in investors’ interests to vote to remove him.
Briefing10 July 2023
The Biomass Budget: The limitations of biomass as a raw material in the chemical sector
As the source of 6.1 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the chemical sector is a major driver of the deepening climate crisis. Chemical companies bear a responsibility to reduce their impact on the climate, and this is the critical decade to do so. Companies are increasingly looking to biomass—biological material derived from living or recently living organisms, usually plant matter—as an ostensibly low-carbon alternative to fossil fuel feedstocks in primary chemical production. Yet biomass is not automatically low-carbon, and it also faces other major sustainability challenges related to its intensive use of land resources and its impacts on biodiversity. In this briefing, we outline the risks of turning to biomass as an alternative feedstock, and set out how companies can minimise their exposure to these risks.
Briefing10 July 2023
RISE Paper 1 - How asset managers can set interim net zero targets
To ensure that finance is driving action to tackle social and environmental challenges at the scale and pace we urgently need, ShareAction is urging the investment community to align with its ambitious new definition of responsible investment. We believe that “Responsible investment is a transparent approach, embedded throughout the investment process, that takes the negative and positive impacts on people and planet as seriously as financial risk and return.” ShareAction is supporting the investment community to meet this ambition by releasing a series of guidance papers that will set out Responsible Investment Standards & Expectations (RISE) for asset managers across specific topics. This guidance, grounded in detailed research, recommends actions that asset managers can – and should – take in today’s investment environment in pursuit of being a truly responsible investor. Paper 1 focuses on how asset managers can set interim net zero targets.
Briefing22 June 2023
Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting: An investor briefing and toolkit
This toolkit looks at barriers companies face to disclosing their pay gap, and helps investors constructively engage with them to take action.
Report05 June 2023
Point of No Returns 2023 Part IV: Climate and Biodiversity
This report looks at the climate and biodiversity policies and practices of 77 of the world’s largest asset managers, who collectively hold over $77 trillion in assets under management.
