ESG Insider is a podcast from S&P Global that takes you inside the environmental, social & governance issues shaping the business world today. In each episode, co-hosts Lindsey Hall and Esther Whieldon interview ESG experts, leveraging S&P Global data to shine a light on the sustainability opportuni… read more
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To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’ve relaunched our ‘Women in Leadership’ series of the ESG Insider podcast. Over the coming months, we’ll speak with women CEOs and leaders from across industries and around the …
Today is World Water Day, and we’re talking with Gary White in the latest episode of the ESG Insider podcast. Gary is CEO of the nonprofit Water.org, which he co-founded with actor Matt Damon. Gary is also CEO and …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down on the sidelines of CERAWeek with Ana Carolina Oliveira, Head of Sustainable Finance in the …
In this special episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down on the sidelines of CERAWeek with Sinead Kaufman, Chief Executive of Minerals at Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining companies.
Rio Tinto …
In this special episode of the ESG Insider podcast we sit down on the sidelines of CERAWeek with Phil Nevels, Director of Corporate Strategy for AES Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy company with operations in …
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6 finalized a long-awaited rule requiring thousands of publicly traded companies to disclose …
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re relaunching our ‘Women in Leadership’ series of the ESG Insider podcast. Over the coming months, we’ll speak with women CEOs and leaders from across industries and around …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast we’re exploring solutions to sustainability challenges in food systems and agriculture.
Climate change …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore how companies are moving from setting sustainability-related targets to figuring out how to reach those goals. A common refrain we heard at the annual GreenBiz …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down with Debbie Lizt on the sidelines of the GreenBiz conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Debbie is Head of Global Sustainability at Intuit, one of the world’s largest …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down with Mars, one of the largest food and confectionary companies in the world, on the sidelines of the GreenBiz conference in Phoenix.
Kevin Rabinovitch, …
A key theme emerging from interviews for the ESG Insider podcast is that solutions to big sustainability challenges require collaboration across …
At the ESG Insider podcast, we’ve been hearing a key theme on repeat: Solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss require collaboration across …
At the ESG Insider podcast, we’ve been hearing one key theme on repeat: Solutions to big sustainability challenges like climate change and …
Many companies have crafted climate-related strategies and taken steps to measure and manage their climate-related risks. Many companies are only in the early stages of understanding how nature relates to climate, but …
Last week, the World Economic Forum convened leaders from business, government and academia to discuss solutions to society’s biggest challenges. The …
This week the ESG Insider podcast is bringing you on-the-ground coverage from Davos, Switzerland, where the annual World Economic Forum meeting just ended.
This gathering convenes leaders from business, government …
We’re kicking off the New Year at the ESG Insider podcast with a look forward to the big trends driving the sustainability space for 2024. In the episode we speak to two sustainability leaders about the topics they’re …
The US government recently published its Fifth National Climate Assessment, warning that climate change poses big risks to the nation's economy, …
In our final ESG Insider episode of 2023, we’re revisiting some of our most popular episodes, top interviews and key sustainability themes from the …
The topic of nature played a more prominent role at COP28, the UN’s annual climate change conference, as understanding grows about the links between …
COP28 wrapped up earlier this week, and in today’s episode of the ESG Insider podcast we’re bringing you key takeaways from the UN’s annual climate change conference.
We cover highlights from the first-ever global …
In recent episodes of the ESG Insider podcast, we’ve been on the ground in Dubai covering COP28, the UN’s 2023 climate change conference. As the conference wrapped up Dec. 13 with an agreement on the first global …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down on the sidelines of COP28 in Dubai with the Chief Sustainability Officer of the largest bank in the United Arab Emirates — First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB).
The UAE …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re on the ground at the UN’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai covering the role the financial sector …
This week we’re bringing you a special series of episodes from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where the ESG Insider podcast is on the ground covering the UN climate change conference known as COP28.
The first few …
Water is a throughline for nearly every subject we cover on the ESG Insider podcast, and it is a key feature of the thematic program at the UN's big climate summit, COP28, which kicked off in Dubai on Nov. 30.
In …
The UN’s annual climate change conference known as COP28 kicks off in Dubai Nov. 30. Finance is a big theme on the agenda, and in this episode of the ESG Insider podcast we’re talking to Hong Paterson, the Chief …
The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, gets underway at the end of November and includes a thematic program focusing on key topics on different days of the event. One of those themes is a day …
Every year we bring you coverage of the ‘Conference of the Parties,’ or COP, the annual UN summit that convenes world leaders to work together on …
This week on the ESG Insider podcast, we’re talking to one of the world’s largest banks about the landscape for climate disclosure rules and …
Last week, we took the ESG Insider podcast on the road for an in-person event in New York City about the evolving climate disclosure landscape. In …
Today’s episode of the ESG Insider podcast explores several big themes from Climate Week NYC that will inform conversations at COP28, the UN’s climate conference taking place in Dubai later this year.
Our guests …
In today's episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we're exploring several of the big themes we heard about at Climate Week NYC that will inform conversations at COP28, the UN’s climate conference taking place in Dubai …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down with Dr. Sarah Kapnick, Chief Scientist for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
NOAA is an agency in the US Department of Commerce …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down with Nikita Singhal on the sidelines of The Nest Climate Campus at Climate Week NYC.
Nikita is Managing Director and Co-Head of Sustainable Investment and ESG …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re talking to David Atkin, the CEO of Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
David shares his takeaways from Climate Week NYC, where he spoke during an event …
Last week, the ESG Insider podcast was on the ground at Climate Week NYC for a special series of interviews. In this episode, we sit down on the sidelines of The Nest Climate Campus with Christopher Creed, Chief …
This week the ESG Insider podcast is on the ground at Climate Week NYC for a special series of interviews from the sidelines of The Nest Climate Campus. In this episode, we sit down with Gayle Schueller, 3M's Senior …
This week the ESG Insider podcast is on the ground at Climate Week NYC for a special series of interviews from the sidelines of The Nest Climate Campus. In this episode, we sit down with Amina Razvi, CEO of the …
This week the ESG Insider podcast is on the ground at Climate Week NYC for a special series of interviews from the sidelines of The Nest Climate Campus. In this episode, we sit down with Matt Helgeson. Matt is Head of …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re returning to the topic of gender diversity, exploring what the data shows us about the path to parity in leadership positions.
Most studies paint a discouraging …
With Climate Week NYC just over a week away, we’re turning our attention to the global landscape for climate disclosure. Investors and stakeholders …
As the US heads into Labor Day weekend, we're once again turning our focus to the topic of sustainability recruiting and how the hunt for global ESG talent is changing.
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, …
Earlier this year, India became the world’s most-populous nation. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re exploring the challenges and …
There is one month until Climate Week takes place in New York City Sept. 17-24. Now in its 15th year, this is a big week for the sustainability …
On the ESG Insider podcast, we routinely hear about the critical role financial institutions play in the low-carbon transition. In this episode …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re exploring the business case for happiness — specifically, how companies can measure and manage employee wellbeing.
We speak to Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Professor of …
In the sustainability world, diversity in leadership has gotten increasing attention in recent years — including from many stakeholders in the …
On the ESG Insider podcast, we often hear from financial institutions about how they're engaging on sustainability issues — including by participating in investor engagement initiatives or networks.
In this episode, …
Europe has been warming twice as much as the global average since the 1980s, and in 2022 was about 2.3 degrees C above preindustrial levels, according to the State of the Climate in Europe 2022 report, published in …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re on the ground at the GreenFin conference, which convened stakeholders from across the green …
Biodiversity and nature are gaining attention from companies, investors and governments. At the same time, many stakeholders are in the early stages …
Earlier in June 2023, a series of wildfires across Quebec, Canada blanketed eastern North America in smoke. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we speak to three scientists about how climate change is …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore challenges and potential solutions to the energy trilemma, which is the idea that the world …
The energy transition is prompting policy changes worldwide as governments seek to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to transform their …
In this episode of ESG Insider, we’re exploring how the hard-to-abate aviation sector is approaching net-zero goals. We bring you on-the-ground interviews from a sustainable aerospace forum hosted by Boeing and …
In this week’s episode of ESG Insider, we’re bringing you coverage of a sustainability summit that S&P Global Sustainable1 hosted in Singapore on May 16.
We caught up with conference speakers to learn their …
In this week’s episode of ESG Insider, we’re bringing you coverage of a sustainability summit that S&P Global Sustainable1 hosted in Paris on May 10.
We sit down with conference speakers on the sidelines of the …
Corporates, investors, analysts and academics gathered in Paris on May 10, 2023, for the S&P Global Sustainable1 Summit to discuss sustainability themes ranging from biodiversity to climate risk to net zero and the …
We’re seeing more companies and countries start to account for the value of nature. In this episode of ESG Insider, we'll hear from two people well-placed to explain how the world has historically done little to …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast we’re continuing our exploration of the sustainable taxonomies developing in countries around the world.
Today we’re turning to Mexico, which announced a new sustainable …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore how Indigenous communities are engaging with companies, financial institutions and investors to ensure a just transition to a low-carbon economy. We speak to Kate …
In March 2023, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a synthesis report warning that the world needs to act fast to reduce emissions. The synthesis report is likely to be the go-to document …
The low-carbon transition will require some major innovations, a rapid buildout of existing technologies, and significantly more financing, the …
March is Women's History Month. To mark the occasion, we’ve been interviewing women CEOs and executives from across industries and around the globe. In our final episode in this special series of the ESG Insider …
Throughout Women's History Month, we're bringing you a special series of the ESG Insider podcast focused on women in leadership. We're speaking to women CEOs and executives from across industries and around the …
This week the ESG Insider podcast is on the ground in Houston, Texas for a special episode covering key themes from one of the world’s largest energy conferences — the annual CERAWeek event hosted by S&P Global. …
To mark Women's History Month, we're bringing you a special series of the ESG Insider podcast focused on women in leadership. We're speaking to women CEOs and executives from across industries and around the globe.
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To mark Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we’re bringing you a special series of the ESG Insider podcast focused on women in leadership, featuring interviews with women CEOs and executives from …
In the latest episode of our special Women in Leadership series of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re speaking with Priscilla Sims Brown, CEO of New York-based Amalgamated Bank — a company she describes as “a little bit …
Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion we’re bringing you the latest in our special series of the ESG Insider podcast focused on women in leadership. We’re talking to Marita Zuraitis, …
To mark Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day March 8, we’re bringing you a special series of the ESG Insider podcast focused on women in leadership. We’ll be speaking to women CEOs and executives from …
March is Women’s History Month and March 8 is International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion, we’re bringing you a special series of the ESG Insider podcast focused on women in leadership. We’ll be speaking to women …
Last week, a few thousand sustainability professionals gathered for the annual GreenBiz conference hosted by GreenBiz Group. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re on the ground talking with panelists and …
After more than 16 years leading the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, CEO Lisa Woll is stepping down. In this episode of the ESG …
Taxonomies: This is a topic that has dominated many conversations in the sustainability world in recent years. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore the growing number of taxonomies around the world.
In the past few years, hundreds of financial institutions have made big announcements about becoming net zero or carbon neutral by 2050.
But S&P Global Sustainable1 data indicates that many of these pledges don’t …
The annual Davos summit just ended, and one of the topics of discussion at this World Economic Forum event was stakeholder capitalism.
In simple …
In 2022, the world experienced major climate-related disasters ranging from flooding and hurricanes to drought and extreme heatwaves. Moreover, 2022 was the sixth-warmest year on record, according to scientists at the …
In late December 2022, nearly 200 countries at the U.N. biodiversity conference known as COP15 reached a landmark agreement for protecting and restoring nature by 2030. Deforestation was a big topic of conversation at …
In this episode of ESG Insider, we’re looking ahead to sustainability themes that will drive 2023 by revisiting our most popular episodes and some of …
The U.N. biodiversity conference known as COP15 ended earlier this week with a landmark agreement for nature, the Global Biodiversity Framework.
In this episode of ESG Insider, we unpack the big takeaways from the …
Mining exploration around the world is picking up as companies seek new deposits of elements like lithium and copper to support the energy transition. Research by S&P Global Sustainable1 finds there is overlap …
We just hosted our inaugural ESG Insider Live podcast event, bringing our show on the road to host interviews in front of an audience. In today’s episode, we bring you the highlights of those interviews on the topics of …
The second part of the U.N.'s Convention on Biological Diversity, known as COP15, kicks off in Montreal on Dec. 7. In this episode of the ESG Insider …
What do Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers, and big multinational power company Ørsted have in common? They're both taking steps to …
The UN climate conference known as COP27 is underway, and today (Nov. 11) is Decarbonization Day. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore how companies are setting decarbonization targets in their …
The UN climate conference known as COP27 kicks off in just a few days. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast we tell you what to expect.
We …
The U.N. climate conference known as COP27 kicks off next week. Adaptation to a changing climate will be an important part of the talks.
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we look at how companies and …
On Oct. 17, the Council of the EU approved a law to improve gender balance on corporate boards. The development comes 10 years after the European …
As extreme weather events such as Hurricane Ian intensify, the urgency of combatting climate change is increasing. The investment community is taking steps to make investment products low-carbon and reduce risk across …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we bring you Part 2 of our on-the-ground coverage from Climate Week NYC. Throughout the week, we heard experts talk about the delicate balancing act required to achieve net …
Climate Week wrapped up last week in New York City, and throughout the week, we heard about the systemic changes needed to combat climate change. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we’re bringing you key …
Climate Week NYC is ending, and the United Nations Climate Conference known as COP27 is fast approaching. As the urgency to address climate change …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we delve into a measure in the recently passed U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, that allocates $27 billion toward green banks and other local investments via the U.S. …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast from S&P Global Sustainable1, we preview what to expect during Climate Week NYC, which begins Sept. 19. Climate Week has run annually since 2009, convening leaders from …
Sustainability and ESG have evolved significantly in recent years — and alongside this change, recruiting in the space has also changed. In this …
On Aug. 16th, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA. The IRA is a comprehensive energy and climate law that allocates nearly $370 billion in federal spending to …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore the evolving role of the Chief Sustainability Offer, which is taking on greater importance in …
In the last few years, central banks have played an increasing role in measuring the impacts of climate change on financial systems and economies. In …
Regulation is transforming the world of environmental, social and governance investing, and in many areas, Europe has been leading the charge on new …
The rapid decline of the world's biodiversity poses big financial risks to businesses and the global economy. One of the organizations working to help companies assess, report and act on these risks is the Taskforce on …
In this episode of ESG Insider we're talking with one of the largest U.S. property and casualty insurers, Liberty Mutual Insurance, about how the company is integrating climate change risk into its investment decisions …
“If there’s an acronym in the disclosure space, I usually was involved,” quipped Curtis Ravenel at the recent GreenFin conference in New York.
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In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast we bring you highlights from the GreenFin conference, which convened stakeholders from across the green …
Amid rapid growth in ESG investment, regulators around the world are developing sustainability-focused rules. In this episode of the ESG Insider …
The European Commission in May proposed its ‘REPowerEU’ plan to wean the EU off supplies of Russian fossil fuels and accelerate its transition to a low-carbon economy. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we talk …
In recent years, we’ve seen an explosion of interest in ESG investing, and private equity firms are part of that growing trend.
In this episode …
When it comes to tackling climate change, scientists say making transformative changes to the transportation sector will be key. For example, curbing vehicle transportation emissions will require a rapid scaling up of …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down with Jan-Willem Vosmeer, Global Manager of Sustainable Development and Stakeholder …
Corporates, financial institutions, investors and academics gathered in New York City on May 17 for the S&P Global Sustainable1 Summit to discuss topics such as net zero, the energy transition and ESG data …
Around 300 corporates, financial institutions, investors and academics gathered in Paris on May 10 for the S&P Global Sustainable1 Summit to discuss topics including net zero, biodiversity, the energy transition and …
Stakeholder capitalism — the idea that companies are responsible to a wide range of stakeholders in addition to shareholders — was a big focus at the …
Human rights problems lurking in supply chains — from child labor and unfair wages to unsafe working conditions — are moving up the ESG agenda for many companies and investors.
In this episode of the ESG Insider …
Regulation is increasingly shaping the agenda for environmental, social and governance-focused investors. In many parts of the world, regulators are …
A new report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, charts a challenging but feasible course ahead for many sectors in achieving net zero emissions. The report warns that delayed action …
The world is working to meet ambitious environmental, social and governance targets in the form of the Paris Agreement and the U.N.'s Sustainable …
In 2022, the ESG Insider podcast is bringing you a series of interviews with some of the world’s largest asset managers, owners and financial institutions. In this episode, we hear from the largest pension fund in the …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently unveiled a long-anticipated climate disclosure rulemaking proposal. The proposed rule, which is …
Pollution, over-fishing, coral bleaching and the impact of climate change — the oceans are clearly in trouble. Over the past decade, many more …
In his 2022 letter to CEOs, BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink wrote: “Divesting from entire sectors – or simply passing carbon-intensive assets from public markets to private markets – will not get the world to net …
Companies have two options going forward: transform or be transformed, according to a Feb. 28, 2022, report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC.
Companies can either make transformational …
Ahead of International Women’s Day, we’re looking at how the U.K. is moving the needle on gender diversity in corporate boardrooms. Many countries have mandatory quotas for the minimum number of women on corporate …
If you listened to our bonus episode of the ESG Insider podcast last week, you know we were on the ground attending GreenBiz, one of the largest sustainability conferences in the U.S. that brought together about 1,300 …
State Street Global Advisors, the world's third-largest provider of exchange-traded funds, is expecting more action and transparency from companies in 2022 on climate change and social issues – and it wants to use its …
In this bonus episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we're taking you on the road to the big U.S. sustainability conference GreenBiz22.
We sit down with Joel Makower, who is Chairman and Co-Founder of GreenBiz Group, which …
Climate change is driving up insurance-related losses on a global scale even as homeowners, businesses and communities around the world continue to build in hazard-prone areas such as those that experience frequent …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore a key theme emerging at the center of the ESG movement in 2022: That’s the idea that …
At the beginning of January 2022, a key element of the EU’s sustainable finance policy came into effect — the green taxonomy, a kind of dictionary of …
In 2021, the world saw many major climate-related disasters ranging from wildfires, to flooding and hurricanes.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, recently released its annual climate …
The EU proposed a carbon border adjustment mechanism in 2021 as part of a broad climate package designed to reduce carbon emissions by 55% from 1990 …
To welcome the New Year, we hear from experts across the ESG world about what sustainability trends they are watching in 2022.
Our guests in this episode of ESG Insider include Curtis Ravenel, who is Secretariat for the …
In this year’s final episode of ESG Insider, we talk with David Blood about two big sustainability issues impacting the financial sector as we head into 2022: Plugging the climate financing gap, and aligning investment …
'Net zero’ was a buzzword in the sustainability world in 2021, but big questions remain about what this term really means.
In this episode of ESG Insider, we'll hear how the Science Based Targets initiative, or SBTi, is …
In this final episode of our miniseries on emerging technologies that can help companies achieve net zero emissions by mid-century, we're examining …
What do Glenfiddich whisky, yoga pants and a trash-burning waste-to-heat plant in Europe have in common? They’re all part of efforts to use emerging …
Can a global array of CO2-sucking machines save us from the worst ravages of climate change? This episode is the first in an ESG Insider miniseries …
Protecting biodiversity and adopting nature-based solutions: Both play a critical role in addressing climate change and therefore cannot be ignored. …
There have been a lot of headlines coming out of COP26, the big United Nations climate conference that took place in Glasgow the first two weeks of November. In this episode of ESG Insider, we bring you inside the event …
The 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, is well underway in Glasgow. A big theme during the first week of the conference was the …
The 2021 proxy season brought a new level of shareholder support for key ESG-related themes ranging from climate change to diversity disclosures.
In …
At COP26 in Glasgow in the first two weeks of November, government officials from around the world will gather to discuss plans for achieving the Paris agreement on climate change. A key issue on the table is Article …
In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we talk to Jessica Alsford, Head of Global Sustainability Research at Morgan Stanley. In the run-up to COP26, the big United Nations climate conference taking place in Glasgow …
The coronavirus pandemic and a growing awareness of social risks have thrust the ‘S’ in ESG into sharper focus for many sustainability-minded companies and investors.
Issuance of social bonds — debt instruments that …
Over the past year and a half, we’ve seen companies, investors and regulators put a growing emphasis on the ‘S’ in ESG. But there is still a common …
In this special New York Climate Week episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore how the built environment – new building construction plus existing offices, apartment blocks, airports and other structures – is …
When we talk about the technologies the world will need to tackle climate change, low-carbon hydrogen is increasingly part of the discussion. Two …
There’s a massive gap between the amount of investment needed to make the climate transition happen and what is occurring today. In this episode of …
In early August, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved a proposal by Nasdaq to require companies listed on the New York-based exchange to disclose certain board diversity information. In this episode of …
A sobering new report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells corporations and governments in no uncertain terms: Act with urgency to lower emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change …
Several countries will soon make it mandatory for large companies and asset managers to calculate and publicly report their climate-related risks. …
If you’ve been following sustainability headlines over the past few years, chances are you’ve heard about the EU’s green taxonomy — essentially, a …
Wall Street’s top regulator, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is in the early stages of creating a number of new ESG-related disclosure …
In mid-July 2021, the heaviest rainfall in a century triggered intense flash floods and inundated several towns in Germany, the Netherlands and …
The EU is working to reform its Non-Financial Reporting Directive, regulation introduced in 2014 requiring large companies to report on environmental …
The EU has proposed a European Green Bond Standard as part of its strategy to drive investment into sustainable finance and achieve net zero carbon …
The world’s biodiversity is in peril and its loss poses big financial risks to businesses and the global economy. More than half of the world's economic output — or about $44 trillion — is moderately or highly …
More than 50 years ago, explorer Jacques Cousteau introduced millions of viewers to the marvels of the undersea world. In 2021, the ESG world is increasingly focused on biodiversity, and the oceans are a big part of …
Investors are increasingly calling on companies to reflect climate-related risks in their financial results. In September 2020, global investor …
On June 17, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
In this episode, we’re looking at how corporate …
Regulators and supervisors around the world are increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change on financial stability. So they’re turning …
Last week the ESG world saw a major shakeup at one of the world’s largest oil majors. Specifically, at Exxon Mobil’s annual proxy meeting, …
What do Chipotle, an air conditioning company and one of the world’s largest activist investors have in common? They’re all tackling the challenge of how to incentivize executives to advance corporate sustainability …
As more companies look to adopt ESG-friendly strategies, they sometimes run up against the challenge of finding the financial justification for doing so. Furthermore, opponents of ESG initiatives often question whether …
The European Union’s new Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, or SFDR, is expected to drastically change the scope of sustainable investing by …
We’ve seen an explosion of companies setting net zero targets in 2021. That prompted us to ask: What comes next? After you set a decarbonization goal, how do you go about meeting it and measuring progress? To answer …
Hundreds of companies around the world have made ambitious promises to purchase only wind, solar and other types of clean electricity to power their …
As countries across the world set out plans to bring their emissions to net zero by 2050, financial institutions are increasingly setting their own carbon neutrality goals. Limiting global warming to 2°C by 2050 will …
Major oil and gas companies are beginning to set aggressive decarbonization targets, but the path ahead for them is riddled with challenges. The latest episode of S&P Global's ESG Insider podcast takes a deep dive …
Heading into the 2021 proxy season, investors are increasingly focused on equity issues, climate change, and the broader role of companies in …
Last week, State Street Global Advisors released its annual asset stewardship report. With nearly $3.5 trillion in assets under management, the firm is one of the world’s largest asset managers. In 2020, it voted in …
World Water Day was March 22nd, and we’re marking the occasion by looking at the looming threat of water scarcity and the lack of investor appetite for financing water-related projects.
According to the United Nations, …
New sustainable finance disclosure regulations came into force in Europe on March 10 as part of the EU’s push towards making the economy greener. The …
Investors, customers and employees are paying increasing attention to corporate diversity. That was true for gender in the wake of the #MeToo …
Investors and banks have less than a year to comply with the European Union’s new taxonomy for sustainable activities. In this episode, we explore the challenges financial institutions face in applying the taxonomy …
Investor pressure is growing for companies and financial institutions to assess and disclose their exposure to climate risks such as wildfires, sea-level rise, hurricanes and other extreme weather events. But in a new …
Over the last year, 30 of the world’s richest countries have poured an unprecedented $14.9 trillion into stimulus spending to help revive their …
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink made waves in the ESG world last month by pushing companies to plan for a net-zero emissions future. His annual letter also committed to taking more concrete steps within BlackRock to enable the …
Stakeholder capitalism — the idea that companies are responsible for their role in society in addition to making money for shareholders — has taken …
New U.S. President Joe Biden has made climate change a priority and is setting the nation on a much more sustainability-focused path than his predecessor. Just days into his term, Biden had already has taken dozens of …
In this final episode of 2020, we'll talk with experts about what key ESG themes they expect to unfold in 2021.
State Street Global Advisors’ EMEA …
This special pre-Thanksgiving episode puts a spotlight on the meat industry that is supplying the turkeys and other poultry, pork, fish, and beef …
U.S. financial regulators need to step up in the fight against climate change, according to one of their own.
Rostin Behnam, a commissioner at the …
Pictured is Pamela Sutton-Wallace and her two daughters. In this episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Pamela Sutton-Wallace, a healthcare executive at a New York City hospital that is one of the largest in …
In this special episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore how corporate America is responding to COVID-19 with new policies for employees caring …
Duke Energy Corp. President, CEO and board Chair Lynn Good sat down for an exclusive interview just hours after the electric utility company held its first ESG investor day on Oct. 9.
Lynn talked to ESG Insider, an …
Illinois and California have passed new corporate racial diversity laws to prod publicly traded companies to embrace racial diversity on their boards. In this episode of ESG Insider, an S&P Global podcast about …
The coronavirus has slammed the retail sector and caused many companies to go out of business. But the pandemic has been a catalyst for growth at Walmart Inc., one of the world's largest retailers. The company's …
Companies that lobby against climate-friendly laws and policies are putting the overall goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change at risk and …
The U.S. Department of Labor received thousands of comments on a newly proposed rule that says sustainable investments still need to put financial …
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 miniseries that features …
"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 …
"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 " …
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 of Sustainability …
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 …
Investors are moving to hold companies such as Amazon more accountable on workforce management during the COVID-19 crisis, Fiona Reynolds, the CEO of …
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 …
"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 …
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 fields during the …
Private equity investors are paying increasing attention to environmental, social and governance factors and in response many firms are implementing …
Social audits are used by consumer goods companies to identify potential human rights abuses, labor violations, and other ESG risks in their supply …
Child labor has been a longstanding scourge in the $100-billion cocoa industry for more than two decades. Despite efforts by U.S. Congressmen, …
A proposed new European Union green classification system would help investors and companies identify and make environmentally friendly decisions and …
The environmental, social and governance movement could weaken the performance of companies that have already done a lot of good for society, …
"The environment in which the debate is happening, it's not like it was 10 years ago. We're in the midst of a 'Me Too' movement, we're in the midst of a very, very public discussion about equal pay."
This is what Rep. …
The interviews: U.S. EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler, Citigroup Global Head of HR Sara Wechter, Arjuna Capital Managing Partner Natasha Lamb, Center for …
The interviews: Rakhi Kumar, State Street Global Advisors’ head of ESG investments; Libby Bernick, Trucost managing director; Mindy Lubber, CEO and president of Ceres.
The backstory: Progress on corporate disclosures. A …
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