Responsible Investing

Health and safety – unsafe or unhealthy working conditions for workers.

Community – the treatment of indigenous communities, including re-settlement and land acquisition.

Human Rights – encompassing issues such as bonded labour, modern slavery and child labour.

Labour standards – ranging from being paid unfair wages and having to work unfair hours, to not having access to labour unions or methods of labour protection.

Transparency and accountability – poor internal activities that may result in lack of transparency and lead to poor decision-making.

Fraud and corruption – inappropriate risk-taking or weak policies and risk management that can result in fraud.

Board diversity and independence – diversity of gender, independence, background, skills, experience and personal attributes could provide a quality board that is free from undue influence.

Voting procedures – allowing shareholders to exercise their rights through ownership practices such as engagement and raising shareholder resolutions, a company will bring to light unaccounted for or neglected risks.

Physical risks from the direct impact of climate change on our physical environment – through loss of resource availability and biodiversity, supply chain disruptions or damage to assets from severe weather events such as storms, floods, fires, droughts, tornados, hurricanes/monsoons, tsunamis and earthquakes, as well as rising global average temperatures, rising sea levels and ocean carbonisation.

Transition risks from the much wider set of changes across policy, law, markets, technology and costing to address the mitigation and adaptation requirements necessary for the transition to a low-carbon economy.