EMIA Program Director, Uwe Schillhorn, hosted UNICEF's Erik Nyman and Chris Kip to discuss children's rights in responsible investments.

This research brief provides a deep dive into sectoral and general legal and voluntary standards and principles related to modern slavery, reviews the situation in the major emerging markets, and ends with a few useful guidelines for investors.

Extractive Industries Program Director Pavel Laberko, CFA, discussed Health & Safety in the Mining Industry with ILO's Halshka Graczyk.
 

EMIA's Enhanced Labeled Bonds Campaign Director, Eva Sanchez-Ampudia, discussed the ELBS campaign and its next steps with Itaú BBA's Luiza Dias Lopes Vasconcellos.

Health, Education, and Human Rights Program Director, Uwe Schillhorn, CFA, hosted Parceiros da Educação's Jair Ribeiro and Pacto Promoção da Equidade Racial's Gilberto Costa to explain the ESG Racial Protocol, how it has been developed, what the different elements are, how it is working so far, and how international investors can support the initiative. 

Program Director Pavel Laberko, CFA, hosted The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment's Senior Policy Associate John Biberman to discuss the findings of COMET's project, important issues in accounting for GHG emissions in the metals and mining industry, and their implications for investors.

Program Director Maria Tinedo hosted Annelisa Grigg, Catalina Cano Zapata, and Gert Kruger to focus on the status of biodiversity, its risks and opportunities for society and the economy, and the actions and frameworks available to financial institutions to tackle such an important issue.
 

Head of Membersips & Partnerships, Claire Meier Underhill, hosted Mexico's Second Stock Exchange, Maria Ariza, and Iker Vinageras Massieu, to discuss their company's incubator program that helps Mexican corporations with equity and debt offerings. They helped our audience understand investor demand for sustainability information and delivered relevant data.

Extractive Industries Program Director, hosted Rebekah Church, Regula Hess, and Florian Oeschger from WWF to highlight the biodiversity risks that are particularly acute for the mining and agriculture industries. They presented the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter, a tool that helps investors assess these risks for companies in their portfolios.

Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategies Program Leader at Cambridge Judge Business School; Founder and CEO at Circular Advisors; Co-founder of Climate-Tech; and Co-Founder of Hyve Forum, Eva Morales provided an overview of e-waste and circularity, focused on the telecom sector, with Telefónica's Sustainability Director, Maya Ormazabal.

The Utilities and Infrastructure Program Director hosted Ember's Malgorzata Wiatros-Motyka & Dave Jones to help our attendees understand the progress being made in the power sector and how they can help accelerate it.

EMIA hosted Open Contracting Partnership’s Volodymyr Tarnay and Edwin Muhumuza for a discussion on how open, accessible, and timely information on public contracting can engage citizens and businesses to deliver results. The webinar focused on Open Contracting developments in countries such as Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda.

ClientEarth's Rosa Pritchard explored the global plastics crisis, the role of plastic packaging in perpetuating the problem, and offered solutions. Accompanied by Miko Aliño from Break Free From Plastic, who presented the most problematic form of plastic packaging used by South East Asia’s food and consumer goods sectors.

EMIA hosted The Open Government Partnership's Joseph Foti, Christina Socci, and Renzo Falla for a panel discussion on the OGP’s latest developments to promote transparency and open governance.

EMIA hosted Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart from Probable Futures, a non-profit climate literacy initiative, for an educational session on the effective use of their resources on climate science. 

EMIA's advocacy encourages Mining and O&G Companies to Improve Community Engagement and Consent Practices & Processes.

This guidance provides a set of key questions that investors should direct to the company’s management during their engagement approaches. Also included is a set of best practice tools from policy experts, which will allow investors to assess the degreeof consent and the quality of agreements and interactions mining and oil and gas companies have with communities.

Howard Shih, Yoo-Na Ha, and Sophia Cheng discussed the Science-Based Targets Initiative for Emerging Markets Financial Institutions with EMIA Program Director Maria Tinedo.

Old Mutual Investment Group's Waleed Hendricks and Safiya Karjiker discussed their company's strategy for achieving their net-zero targets in the South African equity market.

Speakers from the International Budget Partnership and abrdn discussed IBP’s latest initiatives, including the 2023 OBS and its three pillars: public participation, transparency, and oversight.

EMIA co-hosted a webinar with The Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges to discuss the importance of investor engagement, ESG bonds, ESG disclosures, and targets.