ESG Risks Persist Despite Backlash

As Zach Barlow notes in the PracticalESG.com blog, companies are still facing a variety of ESG risks, notwithstanding the accelerating ESG backlash.

The backlash against ESG—the use of environmental, social & governance factors in business and investing—is real and likely to increase ...

The number of anti-ESG shareholder proposals increased significantly in 2024. Meanwhile, federal agencies are ruling in a way that indicates an ...

Despite political backlash, ESG and DEI initiatives persist as companies recognize their value in reducing risk, ensuring consistency, ...

The continued pressures of ESG litigation and activist pressure. ESG backlash in the U.S. and EU. Progress on ESG matters, despite the backlash.

Messing up on ESG risks is like pouring money down the drain. Remember the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010? Yeah, BP had to fork out over ...

In February, a group of major financial services firms withdrew from Climate Action 100+, a coalition of investors pushing companies to cut ...

The backlash against ESG investing and climate-focused regulations has increasingly spread to Europe, once a leader in ESG regulations.

Despite the backlash, ESG is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. The framework has become deeply embedded in corporate governance and investment ...

The consideration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions has never faced such a profound ...

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters, and diverging opinions on approach, continued to dominate headlines across the globe in ...

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink recently said he's stopped using the term “ESG” because the acronym for environmental, social and governance criteria ...

Investment in ESG funds surged for years, though more recent factors, including global geopolitics shifts favoring fossil fuel stocks (which are ...

However, there is a growing ESG backlash, driven by commentators rallying against “woke capitalism,” arguing that it is forcing governments to ...

Souring sentiment toward ESG can be traced back to 2022, when sustainable indexes were negatively impacted by a sectoral bias amid ...

Loud is the narrative that the financial performance of ESG funds' is weakening amid high inflation, high interest rates, market uncertainty, ...

Fortune: Corporate boards have never been more prepared to face down the anti-ESG backlash, new research finds ... "Today's business environment ...

ESG factors hold increasing importance for businesses and investors, despite facing backlash in the US and elsewhere.

Critics have raised plenty of opposition to investments made through the lens of environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles, ...

Since our January 2023 review of industry research on the connection between ESG factors and portfolio returns, much has changed. The ...