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Unlocking Capital Markets to Finance the SDGs

18 May 2020NewsMarrakech Pledge

Produced by the PRI, How Responsible Investors should respond to the COVID-19 Coronavirus crisis explores impacts of current pandemic and the global response to it, particularly how long-term stewards of capital, investors can and should act now to help reduce harmful impacts.

An immediate, robust response to the COVID-19 crisis is needed across the global economy. Longer-term, the crisis raises broader questions on how our financial system is structured to respond to such threats.

Immediate investors’ actions include:

  • Action 1: Engage companies that are failing in their crisis management
  • Action 2: Engage where other harm is being hidden behind, or worsened by, the crisis
  • Action 3: Deprioritise engagement on other topics
  • Action 4: Publicly support an economy-wide response
  • Action 5: Participate in virtual AGMs
  • Action 6: Be receptive to requests for financial support
  • Action 7: Maintain a long-term focus in investment decision making

 

Moreover, the PRI will work with signatories to further develop thinking on what the COVID-19 crisis means for investors. PRI is establishing two signatory participation groups to coordinate and develop investor responses, focusing on:

  • short-term responses, and ensuring responsible ESG approaches remain at the forefront of investor activities;
  • a future economic recovery phase, considering the how the financial system should function to ensure sustainable outcomes

 

Read more: https://www.unpri.org/download?ac=10266

 

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The « Marrakech Pledge » for « Fostering Green Capital Markets in Africa » is a commitment by all African Capital Markets Regulators and Exchanges to act collectively in favor of sustainable development by enabling the establishment of Green Capital Markets in Africa with the aims to promote Africa as a prominent regional green financial marketplace and an attractive destination for green and climate-resilient investments.

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