ESG / CSR management

A new paper from McKinsey and the World Economic Forum explores natural climate solutions and how they can help address climate change and the destruction of nature.

Tariq Fancy, who served as chief investment officer of sustainable investing at the world’s largest asset manager, tells Louise Boyle the practice has little impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

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Overview of the EU ESG Regulatory regime

Plus: a new road ahead for US ESG disclosures, UK pension funds under fire and Toshiba’s extraordinary general meeting

The EU has the most advanced and developed suite of ESG regulatory measures, we provide an easily accessible entry into that nascent regime.

There is more agreement about the damage short-termism is doing than about how to defeat it. But the evidence is piling up on how long-term thinking need not sacrifice returns now

For companies and investors eyeing IPOs and SPACs, sustainability issues are becoming increasingly important in assessing corporate valuations.

Stakeholder capitalism should also be viewed suspiciously by anyone seeking real change

Tariq Fancy, former BlackRock CIO of sustainable investing, wrote an op-ed stating that "the financial services industry is duping the American public with pro-environment, sustainable investing practices." He says there is no evidence ESG investing has any social impact. He joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss.

Wall Street is greenwashing the financial world, making sustainable investing merely PR, which is a distraction from the problem of climate change.

Only about a quarter of the reports (27%) provide a methodology and even fewer reports (19%) provide formulas, approaches or calculation methods on how ESG data was gathered. The study also reveals that not even half (41%) of the reports demonstrated transparency when it came to ESG objectives that had not been met.

A Climate for Change: Meeting Investor Demand for Climate and ESG Information at the SEC Allison Herren Lee March 15, 2021

Two of the biggest corporate scandals this year involved German payments company Wirecard AG and Chinese retail coffee company Luckin Coffee. These two

Partner and ex-partner of big four accountancy firm also fined for failings in checking books of Lloyd’s of London car insurances syndicate