{"id":13891,"date":"2017-03-13T14:34:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/blog\/engagement-and-shareholder-engagement-2016\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T07:48:37","slug":"engagement-and-shareholder-engagement-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/storie\/insights\/engagement-and-shareholder-engagement-2017","title":{"rendered":"Engagement and shareholder engagement 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Safeguarding the environment<\/strong>, the challenges facing the <strong>agri-food system<\/strong>, corporate responsibility in <strong>respect for human rights<\/strong> and the importance of <strong>good corporate conduct.&nbsp;<\/strong>These are the key issues tackled in 2016 by Etica Sgr in 73 <strong>engagement<\/strong> initiatives with 40 Italian and foreign companies. Objective: <strong>to stimulate continual improvement in the environmental, social and governance spheres<\/strong> through ongoing dialogue year after year.<\/p>\n<p>The analyses and results of these initiatives have been collected in the publication \u201c<strong>Dialogue, the benefits of growing together<\/strong>\u201c, which examines the issues discussed with companies in meetings with upper management, workshops, conference calls, exchanges of correspondence and interventions at shareholders&#8217; meetings of the companies in which Etica Sgr invests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2016<\/strong> discussions undertaken in previous years were stepped up and consolidated, in particular on the following <strong>issues<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"offerta-clienti-istituzionali-bordo-giallo\">\n<li><strong>Climate change<\/strong>: focusing on environmental policy and carbon accounting following the Paris climate agreement (COP21) and water management;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food and land: <\/strong>promotion of sustainable nutrition with attention to the supply of palm oil, use of GMO products, the risks associated with intensive livestock breeding and the use of pesticides in agriculture;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human rights: <\/strong>managing and monitoring the supply chain to develop more transparent and effective policy;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Corporate conduct: <\/strong>on privacy (in IT security), tax evasion, corporate governance and remuneration policy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All engagement with the companies is certified under the <strong>UNI EN ISO 9001:2015<\/strong> Quality Management System in accordance with a specific \u201cPolicy on engagement and exercise of voting rights linked to the financed instruments of managed UCITS\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safeguarding the environment, the challenges facing the agri-food system, corporate responsibility in respect for human rights and the importance of good corporate conduct.&nbsp;These are the key issues tackled in 2016 by Etica Sgr in 73 engagement initiatives with 40 Italian and foreign companies. 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