Target 11.a: Urban, peri-urban, rural links
Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning
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Why shareholder democracy is independent
This target concerns national and regional development planning that links urban, peri-urban and rural areas, an activity carried out by planning ministries and regional authorities. The UN reports about 160 countries have adopted or are developing national urban policies. Logistics, agribusiness and infrastructure companies operate within those plans. We found no documented case of companies drafting them or of organized corporate lobbying blocking them. Corporate conduct and lobbying do not sit on the critical path, and the outcome is determined by governments.
How this was scoredIndependent
Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
Sources
No shareholder advocacy found yet
We looked and found nothing that met our standard, which is a source we opened and confirmed. National and regional development planning that links urban, peri-urban and rural areas is carried out by planning ministries and regional authorities. No shareholder proposal, investor letter or coalition engagement on this target located.
How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
The advocacy record on this page holds only what a source we opened says happened. Where we searched and found nothing, the page says so rather than leaving a silence. Where a campaign names a filer the source does not name, it says that too. Ratings are ours; the list of subjects is UN Sustainable Development Goals's, and we link to their original.
How we score dependency, in full.