Sustainability reporting isn’t about producing marketing material. It’s an opportunity for companies to honestly share the risks of doing business and present an action plan for addressing them.
The wine industry is both highly vulnerable to climate change and a global source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Southbrook Organic Vineyards in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
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Ensuring that ego and prestige of the Global North does not get in the way of on-the-ground results in the Global South will be the key to effective social impact investing in the years to come.
Corporate supply chains are riddled with high, uncounted emissions, as Lego discovered. New regulations mean more companies will face tough, sometimes surprising, choices.
More than three-quarters of large, publicly traded companies in Europe and North America now use environmental, social and corporate governance metrics when determining executive incentive compensation.
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While incentives can enhance the environmental, social and corporate governance performance of businesses, there is a risk of executives manipulating these performance metrics to obtain bonuses.
A coral restoration project in Indonesia.
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The world’s ecosystems need to be restored – and fast. Large corporations are well-placed to do so.
Student-Managed Investment Funds provide students with experience managing real investment portfolios. But new research shows only.
a small minority of funds include environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their mandates.
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As we confront pressing social and environmental challenges, business schools must play a big role in building momentum for sustainable investing and ignore partisan, anti-ESG sniping.
A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write policies and invest.
In the absence of legal guidelines, companies need to establish internal processes for responsible use of AI.
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Companies that want to avoid the harms of AI, such as bias or privacy violations, lack clear-cut guidelines on how to act responsibly. That makes internal management and decision-making critical.
ESG investing looks for companies that do well on environmental, social and governance benchmarks.
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Three forces are pulling down ESG’s once-rapid rise in the investment world.
Environmental, social and governance investing, a form of responsible investing that aligns financial returns with positive environmental and social ones, has gained exponential popularity in recent years.
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The ‘ESG’ agenda has become a hot battlefield in the culture wars. Claims it’s a slippery slope to socialism show no understanding of how capitalism works.
Leading the charge: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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