The ESG implications of a proposed US Labor Department rule
The U.S. Department of Labor received thousands of comments on a newly proposed rule that says sustainable investments still need to put financial performance first to have a place in corporate retire...
26 Aug 202022min
European banks sharpen ESG focus as COVID-19 highlights risk
ESG Insider interviewed sustainability leaders at some of Europe's largest financial institutions: BBVA in Spain, BNP Paribas in France and Barclays in the U.K. This is the third in a three-part minis...
31 Jul 202017min
Head of major US gas utility outlines path to net-zero emissions
"This isn't just a pie-in-the-sky commitment or announcement. This is something that we spent a lot of time researching and analyzing and studying," DTE Gas Co. President and COO Matt Paul said of the...
27 Jul 202023min
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 Jul 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Mar 202020min
