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Persefoni, a leading Climate Management & Accounting Platform for enterprises and financial institutions, announced former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Acting Chair and Commissioner Allison Herren Lee has joined its Sustainability Advisory Board.

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / February 28, 2023 / Where did the expression "woke" come from? Wikipedia offers us this explanation: "Woke is an adjective from African-American Vernacular English meaning

The Biden Administration's Environmental Justice efforts caused increased uncertainty for businesses in enforcement and business operations. EJ has migrated from the advocacy community to policymaking. We expect EJ issues may move to the ESG Litigation realm for 3 reasons.

Will ESG become the investment framework of the 21st century?

A new set of environmental policies embraced by the Biden Administration ― environmental justice (EJ) ― may soon spur litigation in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...

Vocal members of the US political right are not happy, creating new laws that ban state investors from backing companies with an ESG agenda. Several fund managers have been quick to take up their cause.

Politicians who argue that ESG forces an agenda on companies that has nothing to do with profitability are swapping one set of values for another, says Oxford professor.

From Bloomberg: Investment professionals are warning that a Republican campaign seeking to wipe environmental, social and governance investing off the financial map puts at risk the savings of ordinary Americans caught in the political crossfire.

A number of sustainable investing champions say it's time for the "ESG" label to be shelved and replaced by something less likely to draw attacks from

ESG has become the subject of intense debate and morphed into a lightning rod for conservatives in the U.S.