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GES Partners & Networks

Partners

ICCR, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, has been a leader of the North American corporate social responsibility movement for nearly 40 years. It is an association of 275 faith-based institutional investors who each year sponsor over 200 shareholder resolutions on major social and environmental issues. As an affiliate member, GES has access to ICCR's unique EthVest database and its influential investor network, thereby providing GES' clients with a significant collaboration opportunity.

NASDAQ OMX is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with approximately 3,700 listed companies. Together with GES, NASDAQ OMX has created an index family of sustainability and ethical indexes on the Nordic markets, out of which the first one was launched in 2004.

SIRIS, Sustainable Investment Research Institute, is based in Melbourne, Australia, and commenced research services in 2000. With a team that includes dedicated Asian speaking analysts, they can offer a competitive focus on the Asia-Pacific Region which is also to the benefit of GES' clients as we have a long-running business partnership.

SIRP, Sustainable Investment Research Platform, is a research project funded by the Swedish Mistra Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. The research is performed by an academic consortium led by Professor Lars Hassel at Umeå School of Business. Based on data from e.g. GES, it has resulted in a series of internationally recognised working papers.

Networks

AI CSRR, the Association of Independent Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Research, was founded by 16 CSRR organisations from across Europe, including GES. Its aim is to develop and promote high professional standards for organisations in the field, by providing independent verification according to the Voluntary Quality Standard scheme. GES was one of seven organisations receiving the first certification in March 2009.

Caring for Climate is a voluntary and complementary action platform for UN Global Compact participants who seek to demonstrate leadership on the issue of climate change by taking measures to reduce their carbon footprint. GES was the first RI service provider to sign the statement.

Concito started in 2008 as the first green think tank in Denmark. Its purpose is to analyse how the necessary change for a climate neutral society can happen in Denmark and the rest of the world. Some of Denmark's largest business corporations have joined as well as GES.

Conflict Risk Network is a network of individual and institutional investors whose combined efforts to mitigate conflict risk and increase responsible foreign investment will result in the protection of civilians and improvement of investment returns. GES is one of the founding members, thereby gaining access to in-depth research on business activities in areas where it is difficult to obtain and compile financial data on companies’ activities.

CSR Forum is a Danish network of individual practitioners within Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), chaired by GES Denmark's Managing Director Erik Alhøj. Its aim is to contribute to the development and understanding of CSR by offering experience sharing through various arrangements and working groups.

Dansif is the Danish Social Investment Forum for players with a substantial interest in socially responsible investment (SRI). The objective is to spread and interchange experiences among the members of the society as well as to facilitate a diversified debate on SRI. Dansif's Board of Directors include Erik Alhøj, Managing Director of GES Denmark.

Eurosif (the European Sustainable Investment Forum) is a pan-European group whose mission is to address sustainability through financial markets. Current member affiliates of Eurosif include pension funds, financial service providers (e.g. GES), academic institutes, research associations and NGO's.

FINSIF is Finland’s Sustainable Investment Forum and was launched on June 10, 2010, with 18 founding members, including GES. One of the main purposes of FINSIF is to be a forum for information sharing in order to promote the development of Responsible Investment in Finland.

Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen (FNG) is the regional Sustainable Investment Forum for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It strives to promote the developmen of Sustainable Investment and to improve the legal and political framework for this market. GES Switzerland is one of nearly 100 members.

UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. GES joined the Global Compact in 2004.

UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is an investor initiative in partnership with the UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact. The Principles provide a framework for investment professionals on how to incorporate environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues into mainstream investment decision-making and ownership practices. GES is a signatory to the Principles.