International campaigns

In conjunction with the international networks of responsible investors to which we belong, we promote and support dialogue or awareness-raising campaigns aimed at businesses, institutions and governments, focused on specific issues. Such initiatives are designed to open and sustain dialogue and make it more effective, urging the businesses with whom we engage to take action.

Luca Mattiazzi
Insights 05 March 2020

Tax transparency among corporations: Director General Luca Mattiazzi discusses the commitment of Etica Funds

Regarding tax transparency among corporations, Etica Funds has signed the investor letter to the OECD for action on the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project (BEPS) and on Country-by-Country reporting (CbCR). The document incorporates many of the issues contained in another letter signed by Etica Funds and sent last year to the American Financial Accounting […]

Responsible finance Tax transparency
Responsible finance Tax transparency
inquinamento da plastica
Insights 08 November 2019

Plastic pollution: results of the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Agreement

Plastic pollution: a global agreement supported by Etica SGR and hundreds of stakeholders, including businesses, public bodies, associations and NGOs, to reduce plastic packaging and eliminate the problem at source. Signatories of the Global Commitment, launched on 24 October 2018 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation together with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), have almost […]

Engagement environment Environmental campaign Plastic pollution responsible investment
Engagement environment Environmental campaign Plastic pollution responsible investment
Inquinamento da plastica
Insights 18 May 2019

Plastic pollution: first results of the campaign to eliminate the problem

Riduzione dell’inquinamento da plastica: una sfida che abbiamo deciso di affrontare sottoscrivendo lo scorso ottobre un accordo globale per eliminare il problema alla fonte. Insieme a noi hanno firmato l’accordo molti dei principali produttori di imballaggi in plastica e grandi aziende multinazionali, nonchè governi, università e ONG. Oggi le organizzazioni che hanno sottoscritto l’accordo sono diventate 350 (+40% in meno di sei mesi). Tutte guidate dalla visione comune di un’economia circolare per la riduzione dell’inquinamento da plastica e la salvaguardia dei nostri Oceani.

Engagement Environment Plastic Plastic pollution
Engagement Environment Plastic Plastic pollution
access to medicine
Insights 17 April 2019

Access to medicine for all, Etica SGR has signed the investor statement

Etica SGR has joined the Access to Medicine Index to recognise everyone’s universal right to access the best possible level of healthcare. This right has not been guaranteed to date since two billion people in the world do not have access to the medicine they need. This includes millions of individuals in low- and middle-income countries who die […]

Engagement Engagement
Engagement Engagement
Transizione giusta
Insights 17 December 2018

Just transition to an economy with a low impact on the climate. Etica Sgr signs the Statement

To support the just transition to an economy with a low impact on the climate: Etica Sgr has signed the statement of commitment. The initiative ‘Statement of Investor Commitment to Support a Just Transition on Climate Change’ came about as a result of the events we took part in with PRI e ICCR. This issue is fundamental to us, […]

Social and governance Just transition
Social and governance Just transition
Insights 26 November 2018

Plastic Pollution: Etica Sgr on the front line

Plastic Pollution: Etica Sgr is lending its support to “A line in the sand – The New Plastics Economy”, a global agreement to eliminate the problem at source. The signatories number around 250, including many of the leading manufacturers of plastic packaging and large multinational companies, governments, institutions, universities, and NGOs. “The proper use of resources is of […]

Environment Plastic pollution
Environment Plastic pollution
International campaigns 08 April 2017

More transparency for US listed companies’ remuneration policy

Sustainable remuneration policy is a hot topic in the area of corporate governance and the target of growing interest on the part of investors, increasingly attentive to the management of the companies in which they invest. Top management’s salaries, in particular, have long been the subject of heightened debate due to the difficulty in linking […]

Social and governance
Social and governance
International campaigns 14 March 2016

Use of antibiotics in livestock production

The ICCR coalition has invited Etica Sgr to join a campaign calling on ten of the largest fast food and restaurant chains to adopt and implement policies on reducing the use of antibiotics in livestock production. The aim of ICCR is to encourage these companies to phase out – and eventually completely eliminate – the […]

Social and governance Engagement
Social and governance Engagement
International campaigns 02 December 2015

Dodd Frank Act, Section 1502: conflict mineral disclosure

Etica Sgr supported an additional step in the campaign on “Conflict Minerals”, started in 2012 and thanks to which an important result has been able to be obtained: starting in 2014 the SEC, the regulatory authority of the American stock exchange, through Section 1502 of the Dodd Frank Act, made it mandatory for American companies […]

Social and governance
Social and governance
International campaigns 30 November 2015

Paris Pledge for Action – COP21

Etica Sgr signed the Paris Pledge for Action, an initiative promoted by the French Government and supported by various international networks, including the United Nation’s PRI. The Paris Pledge is a public memorandum of understanding created during COP21 in Paris aimed at pushing all investors, companies, organisations and NGOs to sign and confirm their strong […]

Environment
Environment