The window of opportunity to prevent catastrophic climate change is narrowing. The world is already experiencing harmful impacts surpassing earlier projections, and such harms will only increase as “business as usual” emissions continue.
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While our staff and millions of people around the world shelter-in-place, factories are shuttered, planes sit idle, and cars are off the roads; there is no doubt that this economic halt from the coronavirus pandemic is incredibly painful and this uncertainty will last for months.
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Paid sick leave has always been an important benefit to employees, but the coronavirus pandemic is throwing into stark relief how critical it is from a corporate risk management perspective.
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As You Sow and Friends of the Earth held a webinar on Deforestation Free Funds that explored what ordinary investors— and their fund managers — could do to move their money out of deforestation-risk commodities.
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On Jan. 23, As You Sow and Women of the World Endowment sponsored a webinar on gender-lens investing. We discussed how to build market awareness of gender-lens investing products to help scale investments that support gender equality.
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s 2020 annual letter sounds fantastic. It declares that the world’s largest asset manager will prioritize climate risks in investing. It acknowledges that “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects.
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New York City's chief financial officer has called on three large U.S. utilities to institute an independent board chair in a move intended to help them navigate a stransition to a low-carbon economy.
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Due to As You Sow’s pioneering engagement efforts, last month Colgate-Palmolive Co. began shipping the first toothpaste tube recognized as recyclable by plastics recyclers.
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Over two decades of engagement with Pepsi, there’s good news and there’s bad news about its record on delivering on commitments.
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Today, nearly 200 CEOs of the world’s largest corporations did an about-face with an updated “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation” from the Business Roundtable.
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Now it’s 2019, and, for the first time ever, there is no company in the S&P 500 that has an all-male board. Companies with leading talent management practices were more than four times as likely to have a critical mass (three) of female directors than companies considered talent management laggards.
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Anyone with a workplace retirement account may be profiting from the sales of guns and ammunition. Vanguard, iShares from Blackrock, Fidelity, and State Street are all heavily invested in gun makers. Walmart employees are protesting the company’s selling of firearms.
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Denny’s joins a growing group of major fast food and fast casual chains (McDonald’s, Wendy’s, KFC, Chipotle, and others) that have established policies prohibiting the use of medically important antibiotics in chicken.
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It was the hook that drew me into the arena of impact investing. I first heard about the concept of gender-lens investing from the innovative people at Criterion Institute 10 years ago.
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There’s a common myth that says moving your money away from increasingly risky fossil fuel investments means having to sacrifice returns. But it’s not true. A growing body of evidence indicates that investing in funds with fewer fossil fuel holdings does not mean making less money.
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The U.S. Women’s World Cup win has put the need for fair pay policies back into discussion. Of course, the usual arguments against this concept are also in play.
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These 12 indicators measure policies that demonstrate a commitment to gender diversity and gender balance in the overall leadership, management, and workforce of companies, combining into an overall gender equality portfolio score for each mutual fund.
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Numerous studies show women are paid less than their male counterparts. This is a key challenge for companies as they face reputational risk, consumer backlash, new legislation and governmental and employee lawsuits.
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To power Gender Equality Funds and help you invest your values, we combined two detailed data sources: company gender equality data from Equileap and mutual fund holdings data from Morningstar.
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