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Selon le Wall Street Journal : « More Companies Are Making Noise About ESG » (4 octobre 2019). Voilà une bonne nouvelle pour la RSE !

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Big U.S. companies are increasingly talking up environmental, social and governance factors on earnings calls—and betting that investors increasingly concerned with social responsibility will reward them for it.

Twenty-four companies in S&P 500 mentioned the acronym “ESG” on earnings conference calls between June 15 and Sept. 14, double the number that cited the term in the first quarter, according to FactSet.

That marks a huge increase from just two years earlier, when only two companies referred to ESG in the second quarter of 2017. But it still represents only 5% of the companies in the index.

The financial sector had the highest number of companies mentioning ESG, followed by the real-estate and utilities sectors.

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Dans Benefis Canada, un témoignage intéressant est fait sur l’application des pratiques ESG par l’entreprise québécoise Bâtirente : « How Bâtirente takes ESG reporting to the next level » (10 octobre 2017). Un article révélant toute la globalité de l’approche RSE nécessaire en ce domaine…

As pension plans grapple with what to do about environmental, social and governance factors, Quebec-based fund Bâtirente offers some guidance on the options available. It formalized its approach in 2005, the year before the United Nations laid out its six principles for responsible investment.

Bâtirente is one of the original signatories of the principles. “I had been working on elaborating our responsible investing policy for a few years, and it was not as publicly discussed as it is nowadays,” says Daniel Simard, the pension fund’s chief executive officer, noting he reached out to the chairman of the PRI Association (a global proponent of responsible investment) when he learned of its launch.

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Ivan Tchotourian

Le World Economic Forum vient de publier son dernier rapport « Global Risks Report » qui appelle à ce que les critères ESG soient davantage intégrés dans le domaine financier. Ce rapport constate que les investisseurs sont souvent peu mis au fait de l’importance des menaces et que la gestion des risques de régulation et du climat dans les décision de court-terme et dans les données financières est indispensable pour que les investissements intègrent le risque climatique.

The Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological.

The report also examines the interconnections among the risks, and through that analysis explores three areas where global risks have the greatest potential to impact society. These are the concept of the “(dis)empowered citizen”, the impact of climate change on food security, and the potential of pandemics to threaten social cohesion.

The report also takes an in-depth look at the how the global security landscape could evolve in the future; sharing the outcomes of a year-long study to examine current trends and possible driving forces for the future of international security.

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Ivan Tchotourian