Social Impact 101 with Electronic Arts: Inspiring the Next Generation Through the Art of Gaming May 15, 2024 Welcome to the Social Impact 101 series by EVERFI from Blackbaud, where businesses and their leaders across the UK – and overseas – talk about how their social impact programmes are supporting overall business objectives and making a positive difference to the lives of young people all over the UK, and beyond… Each edition of [...]
Unlocking potential: A call to action for Social Mobility May 9, 2024 The macro challenge: worsening global income inequality We have an income inequality crisis and the trend is worsening. Income inequality, that is the unequal distribution of income throughout a population, has become a ubiquitous challenge on a global scale; it is one of the Social Megatrends in the realm of ESG and sustainability. The UK [...]
Woodside Energy: a Shareholder Activism Milestone May 3, 2024 Written by Integrum ESG Analyst Neha Kandwal For most people, the 24th of April 2024 may have been a day like any other, but for some, it marked a landmark event in the history of shareholder engagement. Engagement is the third most prevalent ESG strategy tailing behind ESG integration and negative screening. Despite being considered a [...]
The genetic dismantling of Salmo salar May 3, 2024 Written by Integrum ESG Analyst Jack Morphet Bakkafrost, a salmon farming company, disclosed a large-scale escape of 251,344 fish from their nets in the Faroe Islands during an extreme weather incident in their most recent integrated report. While the transparent disclosure is positive, we must look closer into this biological impact via an ESG lens, [...]
The likely impact of the FCA Anti-Greenwashing Rule May 3, 2024 The FCA has finalised its guidance on the Anti-Greenwashing Rule. You can read the full document yourself here. This applies to all firms communicating in respect of a financial product or service’s sustainabilitycharacteristics, to persons in the UK – and it comes into legal effect in 5 weeks’ time. The guidance makes it very clear [...]
Palestine Protest: Students, Corporates & Where it’s Going May 2, 2024 A Pro-Palestine protest has hit university campuses across the U.S., including Columbia, NYU, Harvard Law, Yale, Emory, Georgia Tech, University of Texas, Washington, and Michigan among others. This comes after similar student protests called for the Canadian Big 5 Banks to divest from Elbit Systems last month. Activist campaigning has skyrocketed following the events of [...]
GUEST EXPECTATIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY: CAN SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE BOOST THE HOSPITALITY EXPERIENCE? April 30, 2024 A new study from FuturePlus and Relative Insight, based on 130,000 hotels worldwide reported that at least 6.2% were certified with some form of sustainability certification scheme. Indeed, social, economic, and environmental sustainability concerns have created demand across numerous industries for products and services that can work towards such sustainable goals. Do sustainable practices, however, [...]
FinTech Funding Continues to Surge as Second Edition of Dubai FinTech Summit Commences April 24, 2024 Dubai, 23 April 2024: For the second consecutive year, Dubai will remain in the spotlight as it hosts the second edition of Dubai FinTech Summit, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Finance of the UAE and [...]
What Activists Like About Corporations April 18, 2024 American politicians like to joke that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Whether or not this is true, our data reveals an intriguing real-life counterpart: if a corporation wants to make an NGO its friend, it should get behind animal rights. This is because animal rights groups are three times more likely [...]
A new ESG Platform Wealth Managers Need April 8, 2024 Industrial Thought Ltd., a group of companies specialised in investment taxation, financial data, and related consultancy services – has announced an investment in Integrum ESG alongside a partnership agreement to serve the wealth management industry with ESG data. Integrum ESG’s unique SaaS platform offers a ‘glass-box’ approach to ESG analysis and risk assessment, giving wealth [...]
