The meteoric rise of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) investing in recent years has been accompanied by a surge in demand for sustainable investment products. However, this trend has been met with skepticism from some investors who demonstrate that ESG criteria...

Climate change continues to be top of mind for corporations’, consumers, and regulators. The range of key influencing groups include U.N., the WEF and other spokes entities for climate continue to urge we are in a crises and business as usual approach...

ESG has been a hot button topic for many years now. Asset managers globally are expected to increase ESG-related AUM to $33.9 trillion by 2026, up from $18.4 trillion in 2021. While ESG focused investing continues to be more popular than ever, there has...

Increasingly the importance of ESG is becoming centric to the American consumer psyche. Millennial and Gen Z cohort have become the largest group with the most purchasing power.  

The ESG landscape in 2022 is more difficult than ever to navigate; executive leadership teams have the challenge of balancing the interests of their shareholders, employees, customers, and community. We are in the era of the “conscientious consumer” where more than ever...

Global corporate boards have all conceptually embraced the need for their corporations to have not only a position and philosophy but to actually begin the journey on implementing ESG programs. Jamf is an example that is truly unique and differentiated in their...

This could be the year of reckoning for climate change as politicians, investors and stakeholders-at-large are pushing for big change. As a key ESG issue, directors need to come up the learning curve and understand the terms used to describe climate commitment,...

In 2020 Catalyst reported[1] that there were 29 women who held the CEO position in the S&P 500 – this means that 5.8% of companies in the S&P 500 have female leaders. In 2021 it has been announced that 3 more women will...

As we enter 2021, environmental, social and governance (ESG) continues to be a top priority for boards and management teams. Karen Snow, Senior Vice President and Head of East Coast Listings and Capital Services at Nasdaq, interviews veteran board member Betsy Atkins...

When it comes to tackling the complexities of ESG, climate change is one of the highest priority issues for boardrooms across the world. From increased regulations to investor pressures to consumer expectations, it is a topic that is here to stay, and...

ESG, now more than ever, is fundamental to the way that EY operates as an organization. Their targets are admirably ambitious – a commitment to become carbon neutral by the end of 2020, for example – and it’s clear that CEO Carmine...

As Betsy Atkins finds out, Schneider Electric CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire is fully committed to advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set forth by the United Nations. Throughout Tricoire’s tenure, Schneider Electric (SE) have launched an array of initiatives designed to protect our...

Like many other companies in other industries, Wynn did not foresee a global pandemic upending the world in 2020. But their cast-iron ESG practices and a steadfast adherence to core company values have helped them navigate a difficult business environment with aplomb....

In an industry under scrutiny for its environmental impact, Volvo Cars is innovating in ways that not only reduce CO2 emissions, but position the company for long-term growth in electrical energy. In this Q&A, board member Betsy Atkins interviews Anders Gustafsson, President & CEO of Volvo...

For companies wondering what a comprehensive ESG program looks like, global payments leader Mastercard is designing programs that integrate each component of ESG (environmental, social and governance). With 100 million trees and 100% renewable energy among the short-term goals, Mastercard’s philosophy towards...

Investors, employees, and customers are looking to see what a company’s purpose is and how they are implementing this purpose through an environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework and how this can be reported. ESG issues continue to draw great interest from...

Last month, I was thrilled to moderate a virtual panel, Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism, on what I believe is a very important topic. The World Economic Forum’s International Business Council (IBC), a working group comprised of 120 CEOs, is consolidating all existing ESG frameworks...

We have been hearing about environmental, social and governance (ESG) in our boardrooms and in the corporate governance reports, webinars, press and blogs. I thought it would be helpful to share a brief history of ESG, where it started and what have...

Every public board is now sensitized to the critical priority of ESG and in the process of figuring out how to operationalize ESG. There are two parts of how you measure ESG in terms of decisions that management needs to make and...

The Business Roundtable ’s recent announcement that it believes the time has come to expand the purpose of a corporation sparked a flurry of reactions and discourse. After all, the Roundtable has been one of the staunchest defenders of the notion of shareholder...