Environment, social and governance (ESG) issues are a crucial part of our investment process. They affect the way we invest and where we invest. They also inform our global engagement agenda, which is the list of issues that we target in an attempt to change companies’ behaviour for the better.
The relevance of these issues has never been greater. Investors want data on, and progress around, some of the biggest ESG challenges. In this new whitepaper we share the ESG investment issues that we expect to be prominent in 2019. These include:
- Climate change
- The ethics of investing in social media
- Investing for impact
- The war on plastic
- Child labour in cocoa
- Regaining community trust
- Access to medicine
- Palm oil and deforestation
- Modern slavery and supply chains
- Antibiotics in our food supply