Liontrust Sustainable Investment Annual Review 2021 - International - Report - Page 32
2019 priority engagement initiatives
Priority Initiative
SDG
Impact and Sustainable
Development Goals
Multiple SDGs including Goal 12:
Responsible Consumption and Production
We continue to prioritise our efforts to quantify the main
impacts (good and bad) from the companies in which
we invest. We will engage with companies to disclose
their main impacts so we can report on these. This is an
evolving field and we are keen to build on the work we
have already done in this area. This includes engaging
with companies on the climate crisis to ensure strategy
is linked to reducing absolute greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions.
Encouraging sustainable
use of plastics
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and
Production
We are looking for companies providing solutions to plastic
pollution as potential investments as well as encouraging
companies to reduce the amount of single use plastics they
introduce to the environment.
Anti-Bribery and
corruption
Goal 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
(Target 16.4 and 16.6)
Corruption is bad for people and ultimately bad for
business. We want to better understand how companies
can reduce the chances of being complicit in corruption
and encourage them to manage potential conflicts to the
best of their ability as ideas for how best to do this continue
to evolve.
Worker Well-being
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
How companies manage the human capital of their
direct operations, as well as workers further down
supply chains, can affect their long-term success. We will
engage to encourage companies to offer decent work
and pay living wages and to ensure they mitigate risks,
protect workers’ rights and maximise the opportunities to
support employees. We will also encourage companies
to use their influence to drive forward best practice further
down their supply chains.
Increased corporate
diversity
Goal 5: Gender Equality
We believe companies that are more diverse are better
able to prosper over the long term so we are engaging to
encourage greater diversity, looking at gender balance at
a board level and senior positions, and looking at efforts
to reduce any gender pay gaps.
Encouraging the transition
to sustainable investment
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Individuals are having to take responsibility for their longterm finances, and adequate savings and pension provision
is critical. To date, the majority of saving has been into nonsustainable funds but as demand for sustainable investment
grows, companies should do all they can to promote it.
We will focus on determining which are leading the way
and which need to do more.
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