Principles for Responsible Investment

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Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
2006.

The UN Principles for Responsible Investment ( UN PRI ), German: Principles for Responsible Investment ( UNPRI ), are founded in 2006 investor initiative in partnership with the Finance Initiative of the UN Environment Program UNEP and the UN Global Compact . The initiative, supported by the United Nations , is an international investor network that has created and intends to implement six principles for responsible investments. The aim is to understand the impact of sustainability on investors and to support the signatories in incorporating these issues into their investment decision-making processes. This is how signatories contribute to a more sustainable global financial system . The goals are voluntary and non-binding.

The UN PRI has now been joined by more than 1200 signatories from all continents with a total of 34 trillion dollars under management (Jan. 2014).

Principles

The six principles include:

  1. We will incorporate Environment Social Governance issues (ESG; ecological, social and corporate governance issues) into investment analysis and decision-making processes.
  2. We will be active owners and incorporate ESG issues into our ownership policies and practices.
  3. We will ensure adequate disclosure of ESG issues in the companies in which we invest.
  4. We will drive adoption and implementation of the principles in the investment industry.
  5. We will work together to increase our effectiveness in implementing the Principles.
  6. We will report on our activities and progress in implementing the principles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Principles for Responsible Investing (UNPRI) , Lexicon of Sustainability, Aachen Foundation Kathy Beys
  2. ^ PRI Association: What are the Principles for Responsible Investment? Retrieved June 24, 2019 .