EMDP Country Teams

Brazil:  The Brazil team is led by Previ and consists of members of the UNPRI’s local network in Brazil. The EMDP Brazil team also includes Santander, HSBC, Atico, Financas Sustentaveis. The team realized the fruits of a yearlong effort in July 2010, when it hosted an event on the merits of issuing sustainability reports in compliance with GRI’s guidelines. The event attracted 56 participants from 38 companies and included testimonials from GRI reporters.    April 2011 Update

Indonesia:  The Indonesia team for 2011 is lead by IndonesiaWISE, a sustainability-focused management consulting firm in collaboration with UNPRI. Team members include prominent local and foreign institutions such as Jamsostek (social security provider), Bank Negara Indonesia (state-owned bank) and BNP Paribas Investment Partners (asset manager). Additionally, in 2011 a special outreach has been made to PRI Investors who have an interest in emerging markets and Indonesia such as Threadneedle, Nordea Asset Management, VIP and Comgest that are also supporting the project. The team hopes to build on the success achieved in 2010 with Phase 1 and continue to research ESG practices of listed companies on the IDX as well as understand the perspective of stakeholders such as financial institutions, regulators and NGOs regarding extent and quality of disclosure. Research has commenced and it is being conducted in parallel in Jakarta and London.
    April 2011 Update

South Africa:  The South Africa team is comprised of Calvert Investments, Element Investment Managers (formerly Frater Asset Management), Mn Services, Robeco, the Government Employees Pension Fund of South Africa and UNPRI.  Given that sustainability reporting is fairly widespread and well developed in South Africa, the team there has set a higher bar for company engagement and has chosen to reach out to companies that were not included in Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s SRI index, that are not addressing significant sustainability controversies or did not respond to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s latest survey. 
  April 2011 Update

South Korea:  Boston Common Asset Management and Korea CSR Research Service (KOCSR) co-lead the South Korean team. The other members are ESG research providers EIRIS (United Kingdom) and Responsible Research (Singapore), and Korean supporting partners Eco-Frontier, KoSIF (Korea Sustainability Investing Forum), Korea Corporate Governance Service, NH-CA Asset Management, Solability and Sustinvest. The team took the lead in developing the scorecard that all of the country teams use in evaluating companies and completed its first benchmark report in 2010. Last May, it engaged 10 companies in discussions surrounding the report’s findings and co-hosted an event with the Korean PRI network to raise awareness of the project with local stakeholders.   
  April 2011 Update