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Heartland provides institutional investors with tailored learning services to help transform their policies, practices, and cultures.
Heartland’s learning services are designed to assist investors in identifying and addressing interconnected human rights and material risks across their entire stewardship activities. Through supporting company engagement, conducting HRDD for portfolios, or developing human rights policies and screens, Heartland works with learning partners to better understand their institutional values, needs, and priorities and develop solutions that fulfill their evolving ethical and fiduciary responsibilities.
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MNCs Still in Russia Ahead of Invasion Anniversary
ESG Investor | February 23, 2023 “Companies are playing a potentially lethal game of corporate Russian roulette by wilfully accepting exposure to an array of regulatory, legal, reputational, and financial risks by continuing to do business and utilise supply chains under military control in Russia,” said Rich Stazinski… Related posts: Financial Times | Mondelez stance -
Sustainalytics to Stop Covering Human Rights Issues in ‘Contiguous Territorial Disputes’
Gina Gambetta | Responsible Investor | December 10, 2024 Sustainalytics, an ESG research firm owned by Morningstar, will no longer assess human rights issues in the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict area” and parts of Ukraine. Morningstar informed clients last week that this decision stems from concerns about the reliability of information from these regions. The company stated -
Engagement in Complex Contexts: Exchange on Lessons Learned
On December 11th, Heartland’s Sam Jones will participate in the “Engagement in Complex Contexts: Exchange on Lessons Learned” session at next week’s Building Bridges event in Geneva. Amid rising global conflicts, responsible business practices are imperative for companies and investors to navigate increasingly complex geopolitical landscapes. Growing stakeholder demands for corporate responsiveness on social issues -
Heartland Joins the Global Network Initiative
Heartland is pleased to announce our membership in the Global Network Initiative (GNI) as part of its investor constituency. GNI is the leading multistakeholder forum for accountability, shared learning, and collective advocacy on government and company policies and practices at the intersection of technology and human rights. -
Engaging Business Forum 2024
On October 16th, Heartland’s Sam Jones will speak at the annual Engaging Business Forum at The Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Atlanta. This Forum convenes leaders from business, civil society, trade unions, and government to address today’s most pressing human rights challenges. If you’re attending, don’t miss the panel discussion titled “What’s Heightened about hHRDD?” Heightened -
The Saliency-Materiality Nexus
In The Saliency Materiality Nexus: Addressing systemic risks to people and portfolios in a turbulent world, Heartland, Wespath Benefits & Investments, and Schroders Asset Management provides a practical, rights-based framework that can focus investors’ analytical and engagement efforts on identifying and addressing the most severe and systemic social risks in their portfolios. -
Civil Society Letter: United States Must Reverse the Declining Use of Global Magnitsky Sanctions
Heartland along with 95 leading human rights and anticorruption nongovernmental organizations called on the U.S. Department of Treasury and the State Department to reverse the declining use of Global Magnitsky sanctions and act on dozens of outstanding civil society recommendations. In these final months of the Biden administration, we urge you to take immediate steps -
Rich Stazinski Named to the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct
Heartland is pleased to announce that Rich Stazinski has been named to the U.S. State Department’s newly formed Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct. The federal advisory committee will play a critical role in shaping U.S. policy on responsible business conduct. -
Congress Must Oppose Politically Motivated Threats to ESG Investing
Heartland, along with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and 77 institutional investors and civil society organizations, urged members of both houses of Congress to oppose a coordinated and well-funded campaign aimed at blocking investors from using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors as a framework for reducing long-term risk. [W]e are living in -
Big Investors Back Conflict Area and Child Labour Resolutions at Mondelez
Gina Gambetta | Responsible Investor | May 20, 2024 Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the New York City Comptroller, KLP, AP4, AP7, and Storebrand Asset Management have announced plans to support a conflict-affected area shareholder proposal at Mondelez. Related posts: Sustainalytics to Stop Covering Human Rights Issues in ‘Contiguous Territorial Disputes’ Gina Gambetta | Responsible -
Swedish Investor AP7 to Back Study on Mondelez Russia Business
Jessica DiNapoli | Reuters | May 15, 2024 The resolution requests that the study assess whether the company should take steps to reduce the risks of doing business in Russia and other conflict-affected areas. Such risks include a Russian order that requires companies to facilitate the conscription of staff and consumer backlash, the resolution states. -
Financial Times | Mondelez stance on Putin’s war really takes the biscuit
During his interview with the FT (February 23), Mondelez chief executive Dirk Van de Put proclaimed that investors do not “morally care” if groups stay in Russia, reducing a diverse and engaged group of corporate stakeholders to an amoral monolith. Investors from the US, the UK, Australasia and the EU have consistently indicated their concern
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