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U.S. Finance Faces ESG Backlash, More to Come In 2023
Focusing on environmental, social or governance-related issues, ESG in industry parlance, could hit returns to investors, critics said.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Global
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- climate change, ESG, governance
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Viewpoint: Getting the ESG Framework Right
Big and medium-sized companies in the supply chain can help by requiring MSMEs to follow the path and report on ESG aspects with rigour.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Global
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2022: Vote for Your Favorite!
It's time for NextBillion's “Most Influential Article of the Year” contest, in which we select our 12 most-read articles from the past year and invite readers to choose their favorites. We welcome you to read the articles and to vote by scrolling down to the voting app at the bottom of this announcement — or at the individual articles in the contest, which are linked in this announcement and posted on our homepage. You can vote up to one time per hour during the voting period, which will run from Dec. 21 to Jan. 3. We wish you a happy holiday season and a prosperous new year!
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Energy, Environment, Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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U.S. Sustainable Investing Assets Plunge by More Than US $8 Trillion
A new report says a greenwashing crackdown by the U.S. SEC is partly driving massive reassessment of ESG assets.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, greenwashing
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Press Release: The ESG Power 50 Announces the Middle East’s 50 Most Influential ESG Leaders of 2022
The ESG Power 50 is an initiative launched to recognise the trailblazers in the Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) function.
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- Environment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- North Africa & Near East
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Viewpoint: Can We Rewrite the Rules of Green Finance Quickly Enough?
The use of ESG analysis in investment decision-making is still routinely conflated with the measurement of sustainable outcomes. We need a sharper lens.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Global
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ESG Fund Chaos Angers Investors as Greenwashing Concerns Mount
The asset management units of Deutsche Bank AG and BNP Paribas SA are adding to a tidal wave of ESG fund downgrades.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- ESG, greenwashing
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Opinion: It’s Time to Focus on the “G” in ESG
For all the debate surrounding the use of ESG for investing, virtually no attention has been paid to a core tension in the ESG policies of major investors and rating agencies.
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- Investing
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- Global
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- corporations, ESG, governance
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