

The Need for Employee Buy-in for ESG to Work
The value and relevance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is an important question because of the increasing popularity of using ESG factors to evaluate investments in companies.
In August 2019, for example, the Business Roundtable, which includes nearly 200 major-company CEOs, released a statement that a corporation’s concerns should go beyond shareholder value and include sustainability and other societal benefits. By 2019, the total assets under management (AUM) of signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment have grown from just a few hundred-billion dollars to more than $90 trillion – almost three times the market capitalization of … Read more