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Corporate Knights – In a move that’s been both widely hailed and derided, the Business Roundtable, America’s most influential lobby group of corporate leaders, denounced its longstanding position that corporations exist principally to serve their shareholders.
The Logic – SHARE was named one of Canada’s ten most innovative non-profits for our work helping companies and foundations live up to responsible investing principles.
Investment Executive – SHARE and a coalition of investor groups is calling on global banks to enhance their policies for respecting the rights of Indigenous peoples in the latest iteration of the Equator Principles — a voluntary, global environmental and social risk management framework.
BC Shipping News – World Vision Canada has identified over $34 billion of Canadian imports annually that were at high risk of having been made by a child or forced labour.
Corporate Knights – The idea was simple. Walk into the mall on a busy Saturday afternoon and turn ethical labelling on its head in an effort to understand consumer behaviour. How would people react to the possibility that a nine-year-old Bangladeshi girl paid a below-living wage had sewn the latest and greatest top?
Just-Style – The Workforce Disclosure Initiative is renewing its calls for companies across the world to come forward with better data on their staff and supply chain workers, with the aim of improving the quality of jobs globally.
Morningstar – A pleasant surprise at Ontario-based Waste Connections brings signs of progress – Morningstar sat down with the visionaries behind the vote at SHARE.
Morningstar – Shareholders voted down climate-related targets at Cenovus Energy recently – Laura Gosset at SHARE, who worked to file to the proposal, discusses sector progress and steps to resilience
Investment Executive – Advocates for socially responsible investment and good corporate governance are touting the first win for a shareholder proposal dedicated to improving gender diversity at a Canadian firm. SHARE is pleased to report that a proxy proposal on diversity filed by the British Columbia Teachers Federation received 64.5% shareholder support at Waste Connections Inc.’s annual meeting.
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SHARE launches new Montreal-based responsible investment sister organizationSeptember 15, 2020
