BlackRock Investment Stewardship

BlackRock is not in the position to dictate a company’s strategy or its implementation. We engage on long-term corporate strategy, purpose and financial resilience to understand how companies are aligning their business decision-making with their purpose and adjusting their strategy and/or capital allocation plans to address the risks and opportunities of their operations to deliver long-term value for their shareholders.

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Appropriate and transparent compensation policies are a focus in many of BIS’ engagements with companies we invest in on behalf of clients. We believe companies benefit from disclosing how they seek to ensure that compensation policies and outcomes are consistent with the economic interests of long-term shareholders.

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BIS engages with companies to better understand their approach to, and oversight of, climate risk as well as the natural capital that underpins their company strategy. We view the efficient management of natural capital as core to long-term corporate strategy and look for companies to help investors understand how they may be impacted by climate-related risks and opportunities.

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Our Climate Focus Universe

In our experience, companies that build strong relationships with their stakeholders are more likely to meet their own strategic objectives. This is why we appreciate when companies disclose how they consider the interests of their workforce in business decision-making and how they implement processes to identify, manage, and prevent adverse human rights impacts that could expose them to material risks.

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