GEMs ESG Materiality, H2 2024

Sustainability. We mean it.

Director, Responsible Investing & Sustainability, Federated Hermes Limited

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5 February 2025 |

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In the latest issue, we probe the risks that climate change potentially represents to emerging market companies. We provide a further update on South Korea’s ‘Corporate Value-Up Programme’, and also discuss our broader voting and engagement activity.

GEMs ESG Materiality, H2 2024 report

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The second half of 2024 saw encouraging progress in our engagement with GEMs Equity holdings. Many of our investments are run by management teams which have shown willingness to confront various sustainability challenges.
To illustrate our approach to climate risk in more detail, we provide case studies on Indian hospital chain Max Healthcare and the Brazilian freight railway operator Rumo.
We also provide an update on corporate governance reform in South Korea and discuss our engagement with Samsung Electronics.