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Finance pros bet ESG will become mainstream

Mar 23, 2023 View in browser By Allison Prang THE BIG PICTURE More than 60% of financial professionals surveyed expect ESG to become mainstream within the next 10 years.| HSBC ESG Sentiment Survey ESG could very well be here to stay, if the views of financial services professionals are any gauge.Mo

16 hours ago

The congressmember extending an ESG olive branch

Mar 22, 2023 View in browser By Jordan Wolman VERBATIM Rep.Sean Casten says he wants to work across the aisle to craft ESG policies that work for investors and companies.Sean Castens desire to help create rules of the road for the massive and rapidly expanding world of environmental, social and gov

1 day ago

An all-you-can-eat climate buffet

Mar 21, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn THE BIG IDEA Carbon-cutting firms are seizing on the latest UN climate report to bolster their business cases.| AP ALL-INCLUSIVE IPCC The "synthesis report" released by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday puts a thumb firmly on th

2 days ago

Want to go anti-ESG? It'll cost you

Mar 17, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn THE WEEK THAT WAS Anti-ESG crusaders may be costing red-state retirees.| Spencer Platt/Getty Images THE COSTS OF INTRANSIGENCE Anti-ESG advocates argue that paying attention to environmental, social and governance issues is turning capitalism on its head.

6 days ago

Execs foresee climate rule speed bumps

Mar 16, 2023 View in browser By Jordan Wolman THE BIG PICTURE Courtesy of Workiva and PwC Companies are planning to comply with the SEC's climate disclosure rule when it comes out, but they're worried about it.Eighty-five percent of executives in a recent survey said they worry that they dont have

1 week ago

The e-commerce exec building a new carbon market

Mar 15, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn VERBATIM Shopify's head of sustainability, Stacy Kauk, is pioneering a new carbon market.| Courtesy Shopify Stacy Kauk thinks carbon offsets are so 2019.Kauk is in charge of getting the e-commerce platform Shopify to carbon neutrality, which the company fi

1 week ago

Did they jump or were they pushed?

Mar 14, 2023 View in browser By Jordan Wolman and Debra Kahn THE BIG IDEA Riley Moore is leading the anti-ESG charge.| Photo Courtesy of West Virginia State Treasury DISPROVING MOORE'S LAW Red-state regulators have the financial sector on the defensive over ESG, but they may be overstating their s

1 week ago

A strategically ambiguous vibe shift

Mar 10, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn THE WEEK THAT WAS Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber is bringing oil and climate together.| AP/Courtesy of Ceraweek AWKWARRRDDD The halting courtship of the fossil and renewable energy industries is feeling a bit more natural these days.Demand for oil and gas remains

1 week ago

Carbon markets are heating up

Mar 09, 2023 View in browser By Jordan Wolman THE BIG PICTURE Carbon dioxide is getting more valuable.Last year was the costliest yet to buy emissions permits in carbon markets, a new report finds.Increased carbon prices in Europe and North America drove a 13 percent rise in the value of CO2 in 202

2 weeks ago

The evangelist for climate migration

Mar 08, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn VERBATIM Parag Khanna is trying to get us to adapt more intelligently to climate change.| Courtesy Parag Khanna Parag Khanna thinks things will be OK.He has faith in humanity's ability to adapt to climate-juiced natural disasters, as long as the market is

2 weeks ago

Anti-ESG comes for the insurance industry

Mar 07, 2023 View in browser By Jordan Wolman and Debra Kahn THE BIG IDEA Insurance companies are worried the anti-ESG movement could make it riskier to do business.| Noah Berger/AP Photo RISKY BUSINESS Insurers are already on the front lines of climate change.Now they're getting their turn on the

2 weeks ago

Anti-ESG movement faces a Biden roadblock

Presented by Panasonic: Mar 03, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn Presented by Panasonic THE WEEK THAT WAS Biden's promised veto gives moderate Democrats a free pass to oppose ESG investing.| Francis Chung/E&E News/POLITICO DOL REPEAL DOA The anti-ESG movement is set to produce the first veto of

2 weeks ago

Energy transition blows past headwinds

Presented by Panasonic: Mar 02, 2023 View in browser By Jordan Wolman Presented by Panasonic THE BIG PICTURE Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Business Council for Sustainable Energy Investment in the energy transition surged last year despite geopolitical and economic headwinds, a new report finds.

3 weeks ago

The state treasurer holding the anti-ESG purse strings

Presented by Panasonic: Mar 01, 2023 View in browser By Allison Prang Presented by Panasonic VERBATIM Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ is tasked with implementing a state law that asks him to come up with a list of financial firms that boycott fossil-fuel companies.| Oklahoma Treasurer's Office Oklahom

3 weeks ago

Red states see green in recycling

Presented by Panasonic: Feb 28, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn and Jordan Wolman Presented by Panasonic THE BIG IDEA Ohio is one of the states welcoming chemical recycling facilities.| Jordan Wolman/POLITICO RED AND BLUE MAKE GREEN Both red and blue states are getting into plastics recycling f

3 weeks ago

The (green) workers are going home

Feb 24, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn THE WEEK THAT WAS Green jobs are the same manufacturing jobs that are facing worker shortages.| David McNew/Getty Images WHITHER WORKERS Green jobs are here.Where are the workers.The same booming labor market that has given President Joe Biden the lowest

3 weeks ago

The emissions disclosure gap is wide, but it's narrowing

Feb 23, 2023 View in browser By Jordan Wolman THE BIG PICTURE As global institutions prepare to compel companies to disclose their carbon footprints, new findings underscore the point that voluntary disclosure just isnt getting it done.Data released this month from Morningstars Sustainalytics ESG r

1 month ago

The House Democrat trying to move his party on permitting reform

Feb 22, 2023 View in browser By Emma Dumain and Kelsey Brugger VERBATIM Rep.Scott Peters (D-Calif.) isn't afraid to take NEPA's name in vain.| Lenny Ignelzi/Associated Press As the fight over infrastructure permitting resurfaces on Capitol Hill, one California Democrat is sticking his neck out in t

1 month ago

Carbon removal is so hot right now

Feb 21, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn and Allison Prang THE BIG IDEA Climeworks' direct air capture facility in Iceland is definitely beyond business as usual.| Climeworks THE BIG SUCK Carbon removal is heating up along with the planet, but it's got a long way to go to becoming a mainstream t

1 month ago

The gaffe heard around the World (Bank)

Presented by Panasonic: Feb 17, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn Presented by Panasonic THE WEEK THAT WAS Malpass leaves the stage.| Andrew Harnik/AP Photo PASSING ON MALPASS World Bank President David Malpass said five months ago that he "wasn't a scientist." Now he's on his way to not being pr

1 month ago

Dissecting the Chamber's stance on climate policies

Presented by Panasonic: Feb 16, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn Presented by Panasonic The big picture InfluenceMap evaluated 39 of the U.Chamber of Commerce's climate policy statements.| Courtesy InfluenceMap STIRRING THE CHAMBER POT The U.Chamber of Commerce represents a diverse group of busi

1 month ago

The lawmaker fighting forever chemicals

Presented by Panasonic: Feb 15, 2023 View in browser By Marcia Brown Presented by Panasonic VERBATIM Rep.Chellie Pingree is trying to get more money for farmers whose land is contaminated by PFAS.| Kris Connor/Getty Images Rep.Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), a former small-scale organic farmer, is worri

1 month ago

Bankers strike back on ESG

Presented by Panasonic: Feb 14, 2023 View in browser By Jordan Wolman and Debra Kahn Presented by Panasonic THE BIG IDEA State lawmakers are surrounded by ESG noise.| Courtesy of Consumers Defense HOMEGROWN ANTI-ESG Yes, Republicans' "woke wars" are intensifying on some fronts.Ron DeSantis wants t

1 month ago

Critics stress weakness of Fed's climate tests

Feb 10, 2023 View in browser By Debra Kahn THE WEEK THAT WAS Is this stressful enough.| Spencer Platt/Getty Images NO STRESS Expectations are low for the Federal Reserve's first foray into assessing the financial risks of climate change.central bank is in the process of gauging six major banks app

1 month ago

Corporate gender parity has far to go

Feb 09, 2023 View in browser By Allison Prang THE BIG PICTURE Companies that took part in Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index overall on average performed the best on inclusive culture, but worst on leadership and talent pipeline.| Bloomberg PARITY PUSH Corporate America is getting closer to gender

1 month ago