ESG systematic investing without greenwashing – doing good while doing well
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The ever-rising demand for ESG has not only been driving the need for standards and regulations, but also the need for consistency on ESG ratings. Investors are especially concerned that rather than accurately measuring a company’s reputational risk implied by its business conduct, the inconsistent ESG ratings between ESG data providers lead to greenwashing – either because firms can select the best score offered by various providers, or because the company itself provides self-disclosures that mask risk.
RepRisk builds its daily ESG research and signals exclusively on the actual ESG behaviour of a company as reported by more than 100,000 public sources.
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Justin Gundlach, a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law; Michael Panfil, a senior attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund; and Romany Webb, a senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.
In a move that could blaze a trail to meaningful climate action nationwide, New York’s Public Service Commission, which is responsible for regulating that state’s utilities, is calling on them to disclose the financial risks they face due to climate change. Requiring utilities to develop and present this information would be a potent way to push a critically important sector of the economy to reveal and respond to the consequences of climate change and to save consumers money along the way.
How to Talk to Your CFO About Sustainability
Use this tool for measuring the financial return on ESG activities. by Stephen Lenthall/Gallery Stock Summary.
By now most companies have committed to sustainability efforts and yet many CFOs still see those efforts as a cost rather than a source of value. That makes it hard to unlock the internal financing needed to scale them up.
The authors the director and a senior scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business have developed the Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) analytic tool, which companies can use to measure the financial returns on their sustainability activities. Implementing ROSI is a five-step process. Companies should (1) identify their current sustainability strategies, (2) identify related changes in operational or management practices, (3) determine the resulting benefits, (4) quantify the benefits, and (5) calculate the monetary value. The savings and growth thus revealed can re