Category: News and Commentaries

"The report looks at 10 key trends and dozens of metrics assessing how, and how much, companies are moving the…Continue readingState of Green Business Report 2018, by GreenBiz/Trucost.

"In this paper we explore the role of screening, the activities typically targeted, the different ways that exclusions are defined,…Continue readingDemystifying negative screens: the full implications of ESG exclusions.

"For calendar 2016 the managers that scored the highest under MSCI’s responsible investment assessment recorded an average compound annual growth…Continue readingMSCI links ESG with stronger asset growth.

"Impact Shares, is launching the first ETF focused on women empowerment that will screen for sexual harassment. The fund will…Continue readingSexual Harassment Screens Making It Into ETF ESG World.

“’It will get to a point where, if a fund group doesn′t have fully-implemented ESG integration, and had it in…Continue readingWhy managers need to wake up to ESG threat.

"Profits, not ethics, are behind big-name investors′ interest in ESG issues." [COMMENTARY] Now we know ESG has ’arrived’ and why…Continue readingWhy activists are cheerleaders for corporate social responsibility.

"The debate started when the American Council for Capital Formation published a sharply written report alleging that, as the group…Continue readingCalPERS′ Ongoing Push Into ESG Drives a Healthy Debate.

"A transparent, public and standardised ranking of the world’s largest companies and their carbon emissions." [COMMENTARY] Engaged Tracking created its…Continue reading2017 Engaged Tracking Carbon Rankings.

"Today, as many as 225 influential global investors with more than $26.3 trillion in assets under management pledged to engage…Continue readingInfluential investors urge 100 carbon-intensive companies to step up climate action.

"Today, JUST Capital, in partnership with Forbes, has released the 2017 list of America′s Most JUST Companies, our annual ranking…Continue readingRediscovering our Moral Compass: JUST Capital′s 2017 List of America′s Most JUST Companies.