COVID-19 shows many ESG agendas have 'forgotten about the people'
"Sustainability was always around people, planet and profit. I just think for the longest time we've forgotten about the people," said Mikkel Larsen, chief sustainability officer at Singapore-based " ...
20 Heinä 202025min
How the biggest US bank is adapting its ESG approach amid COVID, racism
Climate change took "a bit of a backseat" during the first several weeks of the coronavirus pandemic as "governments and businesses frankly were really just focused on survival," JPMorgan Chase Head o...
30 Kesä 202019min
Why S&P Global Ratings sees ESG as critical to COVID-era credit quality
More than 370 credit rating actions taken by S&P Global Ratings since March have been driven by environmental, social and governance factors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, S&P Global Ratings' A...
23 Kesä 202020min
Investors press Amazon, other companies on COVID-19 workforce concerns
Investors are moving to hold companies such as Amazon more accountable on workforce management during the COVID-19 crisis, Fiona Reynolds, the CEO of PRI, or the Principles for Responsible Investment,...
11 Kesä 202029min
'No board in America wants to face that': Proxy reform, Fink's letter and ESG
Wall Street's top regulator is moving to fundamentally reshape the proxy process, one of the key avenues shareholders use to engage with companies on environmental, social and governance issues. In th...
9 Maalis 202020min
These are the top issues the ESG world is focused on in 2020
"Baby steps are equivalent to nothing in this day and age." This is what Mindy Lubber told ESG Insider, an S&P Global podcast about the environmental, social and governance issues shaping company stra...
14 Tammi 202022min
Inside the campaign to end forced labor in Uzbekistan's cotton fields
In this episode of ESG Insider, S&P Global Market Intelligence reporter Gautam Naik takes listeners inside the campaign to end forced labor in Uzbekistan's cotton fields. He visited Uzbek cotton field...
19 Joulu 201917min
PE's approach to ESG evolving, but could be mandatory in future
Private equity investors are paying increasing attention to environmental, social and governance factors and in response many firms are implementing strategies to ensure portfolio companies are screen...
16 Joulu 201915min
