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Sustainable Business: Useful links

Sustainable Business: Useful links

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  1. Issues for asset managers/intermediaries
  2. Issues for pension schemes and sponsors
  3. Issues for lenders
  4. Corporate governance and stewardship
  5. People, diversity and inclusion
  6. Anti-bribery and corruption
  7. Ethical taxation
  8. Ethical workplace
  9. Climate change, environment and resources
  10. Environment

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Issues for asset managers/intermediaries

Global

UN 2030 Sustainable Development agenda   

Principles for Responsible Investment

EU

EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan  

European Green Deal

EU Shareholders Rights Directive

EU Regulation on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial sector  

ESMA advice on the integration of sustainability risks and factors into firms' policies and procedures

Political agreement on EU Taxonomy Regulation

UK

UK Green Finance Strategy  UK Stewardship Code

BVCA Responsible Investment Toolkit  BVCA Guide to Responsible Investment (2015)

AIMA Responsible Investment Primer

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures  FCA Feedback Statement on climate change and green finance

Issues for pension schemes and sponsors

Consultation on non-statutory guidance: aligning your pension scheme with TCFD recommendations (DWP/the Pensions Climate Risk Industry Group, March 2020)

UK Stewardship Code (Financial Reporting Council, January 2020)

Stewardship webpage (Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association)

Guidance from the Pensions Regulator on investment service providers and investment governance (December 2019)

Pensions Ombudsman decision concerning climate change information disclosure by a pension scheme (August 2019)

ESG & stewardship: a practical guide to trustee duties (Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, June 2019)

Issues for lenders

Green Bond Principles (ICMA, June 2018)

Briefing note on the political agreement on the EU taxonomy (International Capital Market Association, December 2019)

Green finance webpage (European Commission)

Impact Investment Institute webpage

Corporate governance and stewardship

Changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code  Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies

Table of reporting requirements  Guide to the PSC regime

The new Corporate Governance Code – are your incentive plans ready?

People, diversity and inclusion

Gender pay gap reporting guide

Anti-bribery and corruption

Anti-bribery update: after Airbus

Bribery Act 2010: A refresh

Anti-Bribery Newsletter - Autumn 2018

Bribery Update: are your procedures adequate?

Bribery - a UK guide to self-reporting in the light of DPAs and the new SFO policy

UK Bribery Act - extra-territorial reach and guidance on corporate anti-bribery procedures

MoJ guidance on adequate procedures   Transparency International guidance on adequate procedures 

OECD good practice guidance on internal ethics and controls  Global Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Centre Anti-Corruption Programme for Companies

Ethical taxation

https://www.gov.uk/green-taxes-and-reliefs

https://chancerylaneproject.org/

Ethical workplace

Corporate offences of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion (Feb 2020)

Is the climate changing? Russell Warren discusses the way in which the tax regime could help combat climate change

Climate change, environment and resources

Globalisation versus Populism, and the Future for Environmental Regulation

Responsible Investment: Time for Lawyers to Engage?

Environment

Globalisation versus Populism, and the Future for Environmental Regulation

Responsible Investment: Time for Lawyers to Engage?

Other Sustainable Business Resources

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