ESG Archive

Earlier this month, professionals gathered virtually at the ESG Integration Forum – US to discuss the ESG issues affecting governance and investor relations teams heading into 2022. The event began with a discussion around some of the recent and looming ESG-related regulatory changes coming out of the SEC. Those changes are set to impact not just companies’ own di...

Corporate Secretary’s Board Diversity report presents data collected from a survey conducted among in-house governance professionals – such as general counsel and corporate secretaries – to give important insights into what types of board diversity information companies are reporting, whether they believe board diversity brings benefits and whether they are trying to enhance diversity on their board. Findings in this report are based on data ...

Many companies are setting ambitious environmental targets and are confident about their understanding of the issues – but are lagging when it comes to key measurements, new research suggests. Seventy-eight percent of respondents polled by Crowell & Moring say their organization has identified and adopted environmental performance goals that go beyond levels required by environmental laws. ...

Thirty-six percent of investors say they support divestment as a tool against climate change, up from 30 percent before COP26. That’s according to a survey of more than 5,000 investors across the US, UK, Italy, Germany and South Africa by investment manager Ninety One in an effort to determine attitudes toward ESG issues and whether investors are willing to modify their approaches following the climate summit. Although more investors (45 percent) still say that wo...