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Health, Education and Human Rights Program: The Sovereign ESG Data Portal

World Bank's Bryan Gurhy, Dieter Wang and Daniel Gerzson Mahler help investors understand and use their organization’s Sovereign ESG Data Portal.

Carbon Transition Initiative: Decarbonisation of Steel and Cement - Challenges and the Way Forward

 

Experts from the Climate Bonds Initiative explained to investors the challenges and opportunities that are specific to the production of steel and cement and about the parameters of these companies’ transition plans that investors should pay attention to.

Extractive Industries Program: Tax Transparency Issues and their Impact on Extractives Companies

Oxfam America's Daniel Mulé; AFSCME’s John Keenan; and PRI's Sebastien Akbik discussed the importance of the GRI-aligned tax transparency report with public country-by-country reporting (pCBCR), shared details on the evolving landscape of regulation and tax transparency disclosures, and offered some valuable investor recommendations and calls for action.

Materials Program: Sustainability Challenges and Opportunities in the Pulp and Paper Industry

EMIA's Materials Program conducted a webinar on deforestation caused by the pulp-and-paper industry, its relevant risks, and the implications for investors. Rainforest Foundation Norway's Tim Steinweg and abrdn's Ann Meoni discussed the causes and effects of deforestation and highlighted the repercussions for investors using a case study based on Indonesia’s pulp and paper industry. The speakers used the example of recent EU legislation to explore the regulatory developments that are likely to evolve across the world. 

ESG Initiative: ESG Data for Sovereign Bonds - The What, The Why, and The How

The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance co-hosted a webinar with the Principles for Responsible Investment to help investors and other market participants understand where to find countries’ ESG data, what it shows, and how to use it.

Carbon Transition Initiative: Agriculture and Food Sector Industry Brief

The agriculture and food production industries are some of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, and four of the top five emitting countries are in EM. There are a number of avenues to reduce the GHG emissions from agri-food systems. In addition to opportunities, investors should be mindful of risks relevant to the agriculture industry even if they do not directly invest in farms.

 

This brief will help investors to better understand the risks and opportunities of agri-food systems, as well as to learn about relevant best practices.

Financial Institutions Program: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Jobs

 

The Financial Institutions Program's webinar on financial inclusion focused on micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and vulnerable groups. IDB Invest's César Felipe Carcelén Romero, Patricia Yanez-Pagans discussed MSME's importance in creating sustainable jobs, their main challenges, and their impact results.

Are Telcos getting a pass on digital rights?

With the strong focus of the media and regulators on Big Tech and its contributions to the ills of technology, Telcos often receive less scrutiny on their human rights policies and practices. But they can generate even greater harm than tech platforms while remaining even less transparent. As the primary providers of internet access globally, they must be held accountable.

 

Ranking Digital Rights' Jessica Dheere and Jan Rydzak discussed the findings of the Ranking Digital Rights Telco Giants Scorecard 2022, with a focus on emerging markets, with our TMT Director, Maria Tinedo.

Carbon Pricing: Issue Brief

 

This brief on Carbon pricing compiled by the Sovereign Decarbonization program and Carbon Transition Initiative provides guidelines for investors and will help our audience navigate through the emerging carbon pricing mechanisms. We encourage investors to keep abreast of the rapidly evolving regulatory and market environment.

CTI / SDP Webinar: Carbon Pricing Approaches and Mechanisms in EM

The Sovereign Decarbonization Program and Carbon Transition Initiative organized a webinar on carbon markets and their role in setting the price on carbon. Experts from the London Stock Exchange and Gordian Knot Strategies looked at this topic from different angles and discussed the opportunities and challenges of applying carbon pricing approaches in the Emerging Markets context.

Materials Program: Hazardous Chemicals - What is the Problem and What Can Investors and Government Can Do About It?

EMIA's first webinar dedicated to the Materials Program sector. The chemical industry, specifically hazardous chemicals and their effects on health and the environment, was the focus of this webinar.The panelists looked at best practice examples in policy making, company practices, and recommendations for governments and investors.

 

SBTi Guidelines for Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) – a New Framework to align with the 1.5C Pathway

The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) released in September 2022 its FLAG Guidance, providing the world’s first standard method for companies in land-intensive sectors to set science-based targets that include land-based emission reductions and removals. 

Governance Challenges in Transition Minerals Supply Chains

The Extractive Industries Program webinar invited an expert from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to discuss these issues and offer a few recommendations for investors and policymakers. EITI, in partnership with the University of Queensland, has recently issued a comprehensive report covering governance challenges in supply chains of transition minerals, and Bady Baldé shared its findings with our audience and answered any questions you may have.

Pandemic Preparedness and Health Security in Emerging Markets - an Introduction to the GHS Index

 

EMIA's Director of the Health, Education, and Human Rights Program, Uwe Schillhorn, hosted the Nuclear Threat Initiative's Vice President, Jaime Yassif, Brown University School of Public Health's Professor and Director, Jennifer Nuzzo, and Economist Impact's Manager of Policy & Insights, Shreya Mukarji, to help investors understand and use the GHS index in Emerging Markets.

Agriculture Program: Chemicals in Food Packaging- Implications for Health and the Circular Economy

 

EMIA's Director of the Agriculture Program, Nadine Cavusoglu, hosted The Food Packaging Forum Foundation's (FPF) Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Jane Muncke, to discuss the implications of chemicals in food packaging for health and the circular economy.

 

Monitoring EM Companies’ Methane Emissions

Where can investors get reliable and up-to-date information about methane emissions?

 

EMIA's Extractives Industries Program Director, Pavel Laberko moderated a webinar with Carbon Tracker expert Robert Schuwerk, who described the data and tools available to emerging market investors and helped them understand and analyze an oil and gas company based on its methane emissions.

Extractive Industries Program: Net Zero Targets in EM - Coverage, Quality, Integrity

Net zero targets are steadily becoming a norm for companies and countries in developed markets, and this trend is spreading into emerging ones. Yet investors will be wise to ask: What is behind these lofty claims? Can we rely on them? Are there achievable plans behind the targets? What are the criteria investors should use to assess them and separate genuine from greenwash?

 

Health, Education and Human Rights: Measuring Economic and Social Rights Without Income Bias - Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative

 

How can investors measure social and economic rights and develop best practices without falling into the trap of income bias when engaging sovereign issuers?

 

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), in consultation with the World Bank, has created an income adjusted index with detailed information about economic and social rights per country. EMIA hosted a webinar to help investors understand and use the income adjusted index.