…recently taken encouraging steps, such as withdrawing from global climate coalitions and scaling back ESG rhetoric and proxy votes,” it goes on to list five steps firms must take in order to continue doing business with these states.…
…my professional work (e.g., sustainability, sustainable finance, climate change, and finding bipartisan solutions to systemic problems with a focus on the capital markets), we also took a one week break from this and wrote a book…
…can be addressed by the company itself. But often system-level changes must be made through collective action, regulations, and laws. We need to be realistic about companies can and can’t do to make the world a better place.…
…ESG is insufficient for addressing major societal issues such as climate change; critics on the right say ESG pushes a liberal agenda. The barrage of criticism has caused ESG to lose its luster among many executives. Yet the need for…
…the left (e.g., CalPERS isn’t doing enough to save the world from climate change and to promote DEI) and the right (e.g., CalPERS is pursuing a progressive liberal agenda on topics like climate change and DEI). What both critics fail…
…they won’t they?” question. The same cannot be said for the SEC’s climate disclosure rule. The ink was barely dry on it being passed when lawsuits were launched from the right (e.g., the US Chamber of Commerce and a number of red state…
…his fiery and mindless anti-ESG campaign, with a special focus on climate change. It is always difficult to ascertain the motives of others. Maybe he thinks there’s still some fund raising and vote getting juice in being anti-ESG,…
…value creation. One of the topics at the center of the ESG debate is climate change. Here there are number of prominent conservative voices who recognize the urgent need to address this challenge. The Securities and Exchange Commission is…
…it was never intended to do—solve the world’s problems starting with climate change. It is also our view that the term has probably run its full life cycle and it is time to address the underlying issues of what is being debated. For…
…Biden issued executive orders for his Administration to look at climate-related and ESG issues. Responding to President Biden’s executive orders, the DOL proposed and finalized its 2022 Amendments to the 2020 Rule. The 2022…
…material risk disclosures from salient political issues. We can use climate change as an illustrative example. If investors deem how a company is adapting to climate change to be a material issue, then companies should report on it.…
…board of ExxonMobil. I’ve also done an interview with Mr. Goff about climate change and ESG. In discussing the former he states “My view is that this is the biggest challenge of my lifetime. In addition to having a sense of urgency, it is…
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