ESG Monthly archive

Improved long-term returns and risk mitigation are the key motivators behind ESG integration, with social seen as the most difficult element to analyze and integrate, according to a series of snap polls held at the recent Truvalue Labs ESG Investing Forum. Almost two thirds (72 percent) of respondents say social is the most difficult to analyze and integrate, while less than a fifth (18 percent) say environmental and just 10 percent say governance is the most diffic...

SEC member Allison Herren Lee has suggested the agency should help create standards for banks to release information about the climate-change risks that associated with their decisions to finance companies and their activities. In remarks earlier this month, Lee noted the growing consensus that climate change may present a systemic risk to financial markets. There is a need for complete, accurate and reliable information in order to assess that risk, she said, start...