This is how we proceed
Shareholder Engagement
Shareholder engagement involves shareholders or asset managers entering into a direct dialogue with companies. The focus lies on challenges in the areas of governance, society and the environment. At Globalance, we conduct dialogues on the topics of climate, biodiversity and human rights.
Our Engagement in Five Steps
In our dialogues with our portfolio companies in 2024, we focused on three topics: climate, biodiversity and human rights.
• Climate: We analysed companies with a relevant impact on the climate on the basis of five criteria: greenhouse gas reporting, greenhouse gas reductions already achieved, greenhouse gas reduction targets, measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, climate governance.
• Biodiversity: We use our new biodiversity data from Iceberg Datalab, which considers the whole value chain of companies to identify the companies for which biodiversity loss is a relevant topic. Our recommendations focus on the use of resources, as this is where most companies have the greatest potential to operate in a more biodiversity-friendly manner
• Human rights: In the past, we have held individual discussions with companies on the topic of “human rights” when material controversies arose. In 2025, we will give the topic of “human rights” more weight and address it systematically.
Company Dialogue – Climate Case Studies
We analyse portfolio companies for their impact on the environment and health and write to the companies with tailored recommendations for improvement.
