(more than one topic may be raised in one meeting)
| Topic | No. dialogues |
| Climate change/greenhouse gas emissions |
26 |
| Water and oceans | 10 |
| Biodiversity and deforestation | 23 |
| Other environmental issues |
19 |
| Human rights, children's rights, labour rights, local communities/indigenous rights |
83 |
| Other social issues |
14 |
| Board structure and independence |
14 |
| Remuneration |
15 |
| Other governance issues (incl. tax and corruption) |
37 |
| Total | 241 |
Companies breaching DNB's ethical investment guidelines which show no willingness to rectify the situation may be excluded from the investment universe (updated when changes).
| Breach of criterion | Companies |
| Environment/Human rights | Elsewedy Electric Co Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan) Ltd. Korea Line Corporation Thoresen Thai Agencies PCL Vale SA |
| Cluster weapons | Poongsan Corp Poongsan Holdings Corp Textron Inc. |
| Nuclear weapons |
Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. (previous GenCorp) |
| Environment | Barrick Gold Corporation Beijing Tong Ren Tang Chinese Med Co Ltd Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings Co Ltd Duke Energy Corp --Bonds in Duke Energy Carolinas LLC --Bonds in Duke Energy Progress LLC Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Genting Bhd Genting Plantations Bhd Grand Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd Halcyon Agri Corp Ltd IJM Corp Bhd IJM Plantations Bhd. Noble Group Ltd. MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC POSCO Posco International Corp. Progress Energy Inc. Samling Global Ltd. (delisted) Ta Ann Holdings Bhd Tong Ren Tang Technologies Co Ltd Vedanta Ltd. (previous Sesa Sterlite) Vedanta Resources Plc Volcan Compania Minera WTK Holdings Bhd Yunnan Baiyao Group Co Ltd Zijin Mining Group |
| Human rights/labour rights |
Ashtrom Group Ltd Centrais Electricas Brasileira S.A. (delisted) Danya Cebus Ltd Elbit Systems Ltd. Elco Ltd Electra Ltd Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp. Formosa Taffeta Co Ltd. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. Honeys Holdings Co. Ltd. Luthai Textile Co. Ltd. Mivne Real Estate KD Ltd Office Cherifien des Phosphates SA (OCP SA) (delisted) Oil & Natural Gas Corp Ltd Page Industries Ltd. San Leon Energy Plc. Shapir Engineering and Industry Ltd. Shikun and Binui Ltd. Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd. |
| Corruption | JBS S.A. PetroChina Co Ltd. ZTE Corp |
| Pornography |
Plby Group Inc (including Playboy Enterprises Inc. (delisted)) |
| Tobacco | Altria Group Inc. British American Tobacco Plc (including Reynolds American Inc) British American Tobacco Malaysia Bhd Eastern Co SAE Godfrey Phillips India Ltd Gudang Garam Tbk PT Hanjaya Mandala Sampoerna Tbk PT Huabao International Holdings Ltd. Imperial Brands Plc. ITC Ltd. Japan Tobacco Inc. KT&G Corp LT Group Inc. Philip Morris International Inc. Philip Morris CR AS Pyxus International Inc. Reinet Investments SCA Scandinavian Tobacco Group AS
Scandinavian Tobacco Group ASSchweitzer Maudit International Inc. Shanghai Industrial Holdings Ltd. Swedish Match AB Turning Point Brands Inc Universal Corp/VA Vector Group Ltd. |
| Coal |
Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. |
| Oil sands/unacceptable GHG emissions | Athabasca Oil Corp Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Cenovus Energy Inc. Imperial Oil Ltd. (delisted) MEG Energy Corp Suncor Energy Inc. |
