“Sustainable investing isn’t just about values, it’s about managing risks that affect all investors.” [COMMENTARY] Some interesting data about ESG ratings and returns in this article. Important for all ethical and sustainable investors to understand.ESG Investing Is About Long-Term Risk Management, by Alex Bryan, July 14, 2020, Morningstar, USA.

“Thus far, ESG funds have merely divested capital from the fossil fuel industry. They have put hardly any capital into new cleantech companies that could help with the energy transition. Energy efficiency technologies, hydrogen power, carbon capture and nuclear fusion remain severely underfunded.” [COMMENTARY] The writer makes one particularly good point about ESG funds. That…

“For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more. And while they grumbled at…

“For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more. And while they grumbled at…

“While companies are developing more comprehensive criteria, the standards are far from consistent. The reasons for the inconsistencies are numerous, but of greatest concern is the bias of ratings and the lack of public disclosure about the criteria and standards used in making those ratings.” [COMMENTARY] I find that many company ESG ratings’ firms do…

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