Lobbying

The present global financial crisis offers an historic opportunity to adopt policies encouraging longer-term thinking in financial markets. Given the current context, Eurosif asks that European Institutions consider enhanced regulations that encourage all participants in the European capital markets to focus greater attention towards long-term performance. Within this agenda, Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) issues have an important role to play.

Eurosif successfully published on April 15, 2009 a public policy position paper recommending that European Institutions ensure greater transparency and accountability from large companies and institutional investors on ESG issues. The paper has been met with a great response and further steps have been taken. The European Commission announced that it will organise a series of workshops on the subject of “sustainability disclosure” by mid-2010, in which Eurosif will participate as a representative of the investors’ point of view.

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Eurosif lobbying activities can be broken down as follows: