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Unilever, a leader in household and personal care products, is also one of the world's top five manufacturers of packaged food products. 

In our 2022 Engagement report, we offered a case study describing how we begin a topical campaign.

At Candriam, we are both more active and more demanding in our engagement activities, an attitude shared by several other investors, mostly European.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been yet another wake-up call for our need for energy independence. While Europe's reliance on Russian gas was evident, Russia is also one of the largest oil producers, exporting half of its production to Europe before February 2022.

Publicly-traded companises have begun to incorporate ESG performance metrics into their executives’ compensation packages as part of efforts to increase transparency on their accountability vis-à-vis shareholders.

Investors who fail to consider biodiversity in their portfolios increase the global problem, in turn reducing the growth potential and increasing the risk to their own investments. These two connected systems chase each other in a downward spiral.

It’s good to have principles. But in order to progress, it is important to put them into practice in a coherent way, on a daily basis, in all our actions.