Disputes proliferate in fractious vote season
Shareholders attempting to exercise their rights found themselves frustrated this vote season as recalcitrant companies pushed back on investor escalation. Meanwhile, proxy contests increased in the US following regulatory changes, allowing shareholders to consider dissident nominees alongside the company’s preferred options, with a high-profile three-way battle at Disney. Biodiversity made a strong showing via resolutions […]
Engaging on demand-side climate solutions
Engagement with fossil fuel companies – “supply-side” engagement – has been a cornerstone of EOS’s climate change engagement over the last decade. In this time, oil and gas majors have committed to ambitious methane reduction targets, a greater consensus on coal phase-outs has been established, and at COP28 there was an unprecedented reference to transitioning […]
The value of transition planning
Shareholder votes on company climate transition plans are now a key feature of the AGM season in major markets, but the ‘say-on-climate’ is still in its infancy. As a consequence, it is complex for investors to analyse a company’s climate risks and opportunities. To tackle this challenge, EOS has developed a framework to enable all […]
Is the end in sight for animal testing?
Companies are often reluctant to disclose the extent of their involvement with animal testing. But a changing regulatory and risk backdrop, coupled with the growing advantages of alternatives, indicate that treating pharmaceutical animal testing only as an ethics-based issue is unsustainable. Some 90% of drugs that pass preclinical tests ultimately fail, and the biological differences […]
EOS at Federated Hermes wins ICGN Excellence in Stewardship Award
EOS at Federated Hermes has won the Excellence in Stewardship Award at the International Corporate Governance Network’s 2024 Achievement Awards, for its pioneering systemic engagement approach to reducing methane emissions. This work has been led by Diana Glassman with support from engagers across the EOS regional teams. EOS has engaged meaningfully on reducing operational methane […]
Public Engagement Report Q2 2024
Fast reading Changes to regulatory regimes are removing some longstanding requirements for drugs to be tested on animals. EOS has developed a framework to help investors identify a high-quality climate transition plan. How we use insights from our fossil fuel engagements to strengthen our climate discussions with companies for demand-side solutions. Animal testing is a […]
Lokale Banken gehen voran beim physischen Klimarisiko
Auf den Punkt gebracht: Das physische Klimarisiko variiert von Land zu Land, wobei jedes Gebäude ein eigenes physisches Risikoprofil hat, das von seiner spezifischen Bauqualität, der Lage, dem Standort und der Abhängigkeit von Naturkapital beeinflusst wird. Die starke Streuung beim physischen Klimarisiko begünstigt lokale Banken, da sie ihre Bewertung auf spezifische und örtlich begrenzte Risikokategorien […]
FHL Stewardship Report 2023
Fast reading Monitoring engagement outcomes is crucial in ensuring our approach is effective and achieves the desired results. As such, this report contains new and updated examples, case studies and metrics throughout to demonstrate how our approach works in practice. This year’s report features information on our first deforestation risk assessment and mitigation activities across […]
EOS Stewardship Report 2023
2023 was another turbulent year for the global economy as inflation, rising interest rates, tight labour markets and geopolitical shocks fuelled uncertainty. It was also the year in which the impact of climate change was writ even larger with catastrophic flooding across 10 countries in 12 days, the hottest ocean temperatures ever recorded, heatwaves that […]
Improving corporate governance in Asia
At its core, corporate governance relies on the right arrangement of checks, balances, and incentives. The purpose is to prevent one group from expropriating the cash flows and assets of others, and to provide a structure to support long-term value creation. History is littered with examples of company collapses arising from poor corporate governance practices. Poor […]
