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Swedbank Robur has published its Corporate Governance & Engagement Report 2025, which shows how the asset management company has exercised active ownership globally during the year.

In 2025, Swedbank Robur voted at 1,057 general meetings across approximately 40 markets, corresponding to 95 percent of the managed equity capital.

Read more about GF’s financial and sustainability performance, strategy and governance in 2025 via link below.

2025 - Suite of 2025 reports

Annual Report 2025
 
Climate Reporting 2025
 
Sustainability Reporting 2025

• Integrated Reporting: The Annual Report 2025 (covering the 2025 financial year) includes strategic, governance, and financial, as well as ESG information.
• ESG Focus ("Responsible Business"): IHG details its "Journey to Tomorrow" 10-year plan, which focuses on empowering people, protecting the planet, and supporting communities.
• Key ESG Data: The 2024 Corporate Report highlights 36% of senior leadership roles are held by women and provides data on waste reduction and water stewardship.
• Other Reports: In addition to the annual report, IHG publishes a 2024 Responsible Business Report and Performance Data.

Key components of the ABB Annual Reporting Suite 2025:

• Integrated Report 2025: Provides a high-level overview of strategy, value creation, and performance.
• Sustainability Statement: Detailed, audited, and prepared in accordance with European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
• Financial Report & Corporate Governance: Includes detailed financial statements, compensation reports, and governance structure.  

2025 Highlights:

• Sustainability: Achieved a 79% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions since 2019.
• ESG Ratings: ABB holds high ratings (e.g., A or AAA) from MSCI, CDP, and Sustainalytics.

"26 Feb 2026 — integrated sustainability goals and ESG criteria in the performance evaluations of key profiles."

This report aligns with international standards (IIRC, GRI) and includes key metrics on net-zero targets, renewable energy, and corporate governance.  

Key Aspects of Repsol’s Reporting:

• Integrated Approach: The Consolidated Management Report combines financial and non-financial (ESG) information to provide a complete view of performance.
• Sustainability Focus: The report highlights progress on decarbonization, with 33% of energy consumption coming from renewable sources.
• Governance & Social: Details on board diversity (21% women), safety, and ethics are included.

Published Feb26

Key 2025 Reporting Highlights

• Integrated Approach: The digital report merges financial results with in-depth sustainability disclosures.
• Sustainability Focus: Highlights include a 41% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions (vs. 2018) and a 65% use of renewable electricity.
• Compliance: The report aligns with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and is provided in the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF).
• ESG Metrics: 20% of the Board of Management's long-term incentive is linked to ESG goals.
• Recognition: Recognized as a leader in the paints and coatings industry by ESG rating agencies like Sustainalytics.

Published Feb26

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• Overview
• Sustainability at JBS
• Responsible operations
• Environmental stewardship
• Social responsibility
• Product integrity

China's solar industry is a poster child for the country's economic rise over the last four decades.

Focal points

• Chinese local subsidies for solar production, installation and R&D were a major driver of the sector’s explosive growth and global cost declines.
• Industrial policies explained roughly 40% to 50% of changes in innovation, revenues and prices from 2004 to 2020, with large welfare gains before environmental benefits are counted.
• Solar offers evidence that targeted green industrial policy can accelerate innovation, though design matters and lessons may not transfer cleanly to all sectors.

Contents

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• China’s solar industry
• How policy led to innovation in solar energy
• What was the local impact of China’s industrial policy?
• What was the national impact of China’s industrial policy?
• What lessons can we learn?

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We need to count energy from the perspective of the consumer in order to understand the changes sweeping the energy sector.

There are four battles in the energy system and electrotech is set to win three of them.

The development and usage of AI is rapidly accelerating, placing increasing demand on our world’s natural resources. This is particularly salient in areas where data centres are located, with energy and water resources already showing visible strain.

At the same time, AI systems have the potential to rapidly speed up the transition to net-zero by optimising energy systems and enabling innovation and discovery.

The sustainable investor for a changing world

Focal points

• The inaugural listed-equities impact report argues clean-energy investing can deliver competitive returns while accelerating decarbonisation through renewables, electrification, efficiency and supply chains.
• It reports roughly 1.7 million tonnes of CO2e avoided in 2025 across portfolio companies and 14 primary transactions supporting 11 companies.
• The document sets out BNPP AM’s thematic construction, impact methodology, carbon metrics, ESG analysis, case studies, engagement and proxy-voting approach.

Contents

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• Investing in Decarbonisation
• Portfolio Composition
• Introduction to Impact Investing in BNP Paribas Clean Energy Solutions
• Impact versus Benchmark
• ESG
• Case Study One
• Engagement

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We are continuously seeing how developments in AI are shaping the market, whether it's resulting in job redundancies, child safety discussions, or national security. AI is scaling faster than the guardrails around it, showcasing how Responsible AI has become a material issue for companies and investors. In this paper, our Senior ESG analyst Rita Wyshelesky highlights our research approach, our proprietary Responsible AI due diligence framework and engagement priorities.

Focal points

• The paper argues Responsible AI is becoming a material investor issue as adoption outpaces safeguards and incidents, bias, misinformation and systemic disruption proliferate.
• It defines Responsible AI around fairness, explainability, privacy, robustness and accountability, and links weak governance to legal, regulatory and reputational costs.
• Carmignac presents a due-diligence framework and argues firms that manage AI ethics well should ultimately earn valuation premiums via lower risk, stronger innovation and talent or brand advantages.

Contents

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• The next industrial revolution?
• What is “Responsible AI”
• The divergence between regulation and reality
• Investment implications
• The Carmignac approach to Responsible AI
• A framework for Responsible AI
• Responsible AI vs. valuation multiples
• Where Responsible AI meets society

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Focal points

• The article argues workforce mental health is a financially material stewardship issue, citing lost-productivity costs and strong returns from effective interventions.
• CCLA’s benchmark shows progress where investor scrutiny, transparency and peer comparison are strongest, but major laggards remain, including some megacap technology firms.
• It urges companies to embed leadership accountability, good working conditions, and systematic measurement into strategy, governance and reporting.

Contents

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• Why we created the CCLA Corporate Mental Health Benchmark
• What the latest benchmark tells us
• How companies can improve
• Why the benchmark works

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