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Through the first seven months of this year, U.S. investors launched 607 ESG and executive pay campaigns, up 25% compared to the first seven months of 2021. Just over half the campaigns (310) focused...
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, officially known as the Government Pension Fund Global, issued last week a new, government approved climate action plan that requires its portfolio companies to...
Lawmakers in Switzerland on September 16 drafted a new proposal with the goal of cutting greenhouse emissions in half by 2030, more than a year since their first attempt to pass similar legislation...
In mid-August, Strive Asset Management launched an anti-ESG fund, the U.S. Energy ETF (DRLL). The fund has attracted around $312 million in investments since its launch. Strive’s executive...
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Sustainable1, an ESG intelligence provider, announced on earlier this month the launch of a group of climate-focused market benchmarks called the S&P Net Zero 2050...
A nearly 100-year-old consumer research organization is providing powerful, and sometimes strident, anti-ESG messages, many of which have been directed at some of America’s largest and most...
Stuart Kirk, head of HSBC Asset Management’s responsible investing business, compared last May the current concerns about the climate crisis to the Y2K bug doomsday predictions. During a...
Florida and Texas, two of the country’s most populous states, have recently enacted anti-ESG regulations. These regulations forbid state investment and pension fund managers from doing business...
In a press release last month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed credit for eliminating environmental, social, and governance considerations from the state’s pension and investment funds....
The European Commission is stepping up its scrutiny of alleged “greenwashing” in its markets. Greenwashing is the conveying of a false impression or disseminating misleading information on how a...
The American Banking Association has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise its climate risk disclosure proposal for public companies. The SEC proposal requires the measurement,...
The European Commission proposed last year to add natural gas and nuclear power to the so-called EU Taxonomy of clean, sustainable energy sources. Early last month, the EU Parliament voted to include...
In 2015, the United Nations adopted a list of 17 sustainable development goals, known as SDGs, intended to drive policies that would end all forms of poverty, fight inequality, and battle climate...
This article is sponsored by Corporate Citizen Project. In the latest salvo against asset management firms, rating agencies, and proxy advisory companies, Missouri’s Attorney General Eric...
This article is sponsored by Corporate Citizen Project. Investment management giant BlackRock voted in 2021 in support of 149 U.S. shareholder proposals related to environmental, social, and...