DPAM’s 6th Annual Sustainability Seminar ‘Engagement: a credible road to Impact'

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SUSTAINABILITY SEMINAR 2022

Engagement: a credible road to Impact

INTRODUCTION

On October 12, DPAM hosted its 6^th Sustainable Seminar “Engagement: a credible road to impact”. First, we reveal corporate engagement success factors. Second, we summarise challenges encountered in sovereign engagement.

Read here full insights about the seminar by Peter De Coensel, CEO DPAM

ROUNDTABLE

Engaging corporates, what is the secret for a successful engagement and when disinvest?

Moderated by Ophélie Mortier, CSIO at DPAM

Speakers:
Jehanne Leroy, ESG Research Director France, Proxinvest
Vincent Kaufmann, CEO, Ethos
Tarek Bouhouch, Engagement & Research Manager, Follow This France
Koen Bosquet, Fundamental Equity Fund Manager, DPAM

ROUNDTABLE

Engaging sovereigns, can we really engage with sovereign bondholders or do we remain in dialogue?

Moderated by Ophélie Mortier, CSIO at DPAM

Speakers:
Alexandre Vincent, Head of Sustainable Finance, Agence France Trésor Ministère de l’Économie et des finances
François Gemenne, Director, The Hugo Observatory
Serge de Gheldere, CEO Futureproofed, Chairman of Klimaatzaak

CONCLUSION

Sustainable investment managers will have to engage with the same intensity towards governments as they do towards corporates. Engagement and active ownership are essential foundations upon which functional and effective ESG methodologies are built. ESG integration without active engagement and voting lacks credibility. Avoiding greenwashing risks requires strong, dynamic engagement and voting frameworks to support and enable transitioning companies and countries.

Moreover, investment managers are bound, over time, to measure and generate impact across meaningful and measurable sustainable development goals. That requires a reorientation of the debate away from simplified exclusion frameworks towards active ownership engagement with clear escalation paths.

Listen to the conclusion in the recording