Projects

Procter & Gamble has a No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy that covers all third-party suppliers, and it has committed to developing a traceable supply chain. P&G applies its responsible sourcing policy at the supplier group level but relies on intermediary traders to engage with non-compliant growers and ensure a clean supply chain. In July 2019, P&G changed its organization design to six Sector Business Units (SBUs). It has decentralized responsibility for supply chains across its new business units.

Independent palm oil smallholders in Indonesia are facing declining yields per hectare as their trees are aging. Financial and land tenure hurdles prevent effective financing of replanting, raising the risk of increasing deforestation in Southeast Asia after a period of declining forest loss. This report evaluates the financial and other hurdlesin Indonesia and investigates plans by governments and companies to offer solutions.

Using the methodology developed by Profundo together with the civil society organisations collaborating in the Fair Finance Guide International network, the Indian Fair Finance Guide coalition assessed and ranked the responsible credit and investment policies of the main Indian banks for the first time. Profundo provided training and advice to support their assessment. Fair Finance Guide India is part of Fair Finance Asia, a regional network of Asian civil society organizations that is committed to ensuring that the business decisions and funding strategies of financial institutions in the region respect the social and environmental well-being of the communities in which they operate. Seven countries within the region are a part of the FFA: Cambodia, Japan, India, Indonesia, The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Want to learn about Fair Finance Guide? Watch this video: https://youtu.be/zdks3jqmvuw

ABP discloses the carbon footprint of its equity portfolio, and reports the trends between 2015 and 2018. This research – commissioned by Greenpeace, Both Ends, urgwewald and Fossiel Vrij NL – provides a more detailed analysis at the sector level of trends in investments and attributable emissions. Moreover, the research also shows that it is possible to estimate ABP’s carbon footprint for other asset classes using the PCAF methodology.

On 29 August 2019, the Dutch Minister of Finance, Wopke Hoekstra, sent a letter to the Parliament about "Exploring the market for green financing". This note has some reservations about the content of that letter.

This report shows that BlackRock is among the top three shareholders in 25 of the world’s largest publicly listed deforestation-risk companies, and among the top ten shareholders in 50 of the world’s top deforestation-risk companies.

Case study on investments by Dutch pension funds in high risk companies in the chicken and pig meat value chain. The largest Dutch pension funds have investments in the chicken and pig meat producing companies. These companies by large fail to follow minimum animal welfare standards and exposes pension fund investments to many ESG risks including animal welfare. Profundo's new report for the Fair Pension Label, Netherlands, makes recommendation to the pension funds on how to invest responsibly in the sector.

An analysis of FSC and PEFC adherence to the UN Guiding Principles, ILO Fundamental Conventions and OECD Guidelines

Inspiration for the integration of sustainability in teaching materials for the subject of economics in secondary education

The Global insurer’s involvement in the illegal Israeli Occupation. This report by consumer watchdog SumOfUs reveals AXA’s investments in Israeli banks which in turn directly finance illegal Israeli settlements. It also highlights the ways in which Elbit Systems profits from supplying the Israeli military with a variety of banned and controversial weapons, as well as technologies used to sustain the occupation.