The West "will have to give as much as it gets as it seeks to fashion a new international order that includes the rest".For example, the West will need to stop preaching that only liberal democracies are to be considered legitimate governments: "responsible governance" should be enough to put a state in good international standing.
In its progress report, the government said that over the past year, it has: Established the CIO Delivery Board, the governance body responsible for implementation of the strategy (April 2011).
Iain Richards, head of governance and responsible investment at fund manager Threadneedle, said the votes told only part of the story, because some companies had averted disputes by putting audit contracts out to tender.
"No one should be in any doubt that this is effectively seen as a takeover," Threadneedle's head of governance and responsible investment, Iain Richards, said in a letter to Xstrata's board on Monday.
To better anticipate societal needs and concerns, and to guide the societal embedding of such new scientific developments, a new governance approach, "responsible research and innovation" (RRI) has been proposed in the past years within the context of European Commission projects for research and innovation (Hoven Van Den et al. 2013; Zwart et al. 2014).
The charity found that the largest auto-enrollment retirement plan provided scored a dismal average of just 24 out of 80 on governance and responsible investing.
There is a "serious gulf in performance between the best and worst when it comes to managing conflicts of interest, good governance and responsible stewardship of assets," said ShareActions chief executive Catherine Howarth in a statement.
The boundaries of natural resources rarely match those of the governance institutions responsible for managing them.
HEADS-UP summaries will also be shared with the governance committees responsible for the issues raised.
The soft drinks company also pledged to use its clout to encourage other food and beverage firms, traders – especially of soy, sugar and palm oil – as well as governments to endorse and implement voluntary UN guidelines on responsible governance of tenure on land, fisheries and forests.
