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…excessive management compensation and, more recently, concerns like climate change, human rights in company supply chains, responsible technological development, and other ESG matters. If activists are successful, they can be rewarded…
…natural home and framework to guard against these harms. As focus on climate change grows through COP26 has made clear, the environment or “E” will be a future headline involving AI, as the outsized carbon footprint of AI inflicts…
…and investment communities. The two terms are often used interchangeably as synonyms. This is wrong. Purpose and sustainability are related but different ideas. Purpose comes first. Sustainability can either contribute to it or can…
…to these two campaigns. Investors and others concerned about climate change have been almost universally positive about the hard-hitting ExxonMobil campaign driven by people with backgrounds as traditional activist investors,…
…from her fellow Commissioner Allison Herren Lee for comments on climate change. Yes, Commissioner Peirce, climate change is real. Peirce thought it helpful to point out that Lee’s request came on the Ides of March. In her typical…
…it can to ignore the fact that the energy transition being forced by climate change requires fundamental changes to the company’s strategy and capital expenditures.
…to MPT, it was developed long before systemic risks, such as climate change and resource scarcity were an issue, or like inequality in its various forms were recognized as an issue. Jon Lukomnik realized that more than 25 years…
…disruptions (Covid-19 just being the most dramatic example but climate change and social unrest present a broad range of challenges), (7) the now-demonstrated fact that performance on material sustainability issues contributes to…
…that better mitigates systemic risks like income inequality and climate change. After nine months of the global pandemic, it is increasingly clear that we need to build a new financial and social “normal.” Instability and unrest…
…inequality, respondents were asked to compare these two issues with climate change to identify the highest priority for large companies (see Table 1 below). Climate change was rated first and by a significant extent (44 percent),…
…their quest for profits to pursue solutions to challenges like climate change, racial injustice and economic inequality. Skeptics argue that a single stakeholder will always retain primacy: the shareholder.” These doubts include…
…alone will not solve these problems. Companies’ behavior needs to change. Newton seeks to do this through the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in security analysis and selection across all asset…
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