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Switzerland May Expand ESG Reporting Requirements to More Closely Align with International Standards

December 17, 2024

The Swiss government has launched a consultation on new, more extensive sustainability-related disclosure requirements to better address "international developments" by aligning Swiss disclosure requirements to "internationally recognized standards".
More Companies Dropping Bonus Plans Associated with DEI

July 23, 2024

Financial Times reporter Patrick Temple-West discusses the growing trend for big employers to walk back certain DEI measures.
Loper Bright: What this Decision Means for ESG

July 10, 2024

In light of of the United States Supreme Court decision on Loper Bright, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance considers how this affects ESG, and how it fits in to larger global trends of ESG regulation.
Firms Still Pushing Climate-Related Disclosure Rule, Despite Legal Questions

June 21, 2024

As the SEC pauses its Climate-Related Disclosure Rule amidst questions over its legality, regulators and climate activists continue to push for more extensive reporting standards.
Companies Risk Falling on Social Credit Scores for not Following Woke Agenda

April 19, 2023

Executives at companies like Nike and Kate Spade are being forced to invest in the woke agenda or risk failing in their social credit score produced by Corporate Equality Index or CEI, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign.
Tice: The Lehman moment for the ESG movement

April 10, 2023

Paul Tice writing in the Washington Examiner compares the recent bank failures and their links to the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 brought on by its president and COO, Joe Gregory, spending most of his time promoting diversity and inclusion, suggesting that the ESG agenda is on its way out.
Simpson: Sustainable Development and How it led to ESG and Social Credit Scores

April 03, 2023

James Simpson writing for Capital Research Center follows the The “sustainability” concept from it’s creation in 2006 with the UN publication “Principles for Responsible Investing” (PRI) to today where numerous organizations now pursue the UN’s notion of sustainability including powerful groups such as the WEF, BlackRock, and thousands of smaller ones who control $60 trillion in assets, changing the landscape of the world economy.
Twenty-One Attorneys General Warn Companies Pushing ESG

April 03, 2023

Following President Joe Biden’s veto of a congressional effort to counter environmental, social, and governance factors (ESG) when making decisions on behalf of retirees, a group of 21 Republican attorneys general is sending a warning to investment companies pushing the ESG agenda that their actions are in conflict with existing law.
ESG Had Large Roll in the Downfall of the Silicon Valley Bank

March 28, 2023

Woke initiatives had a much larger impact on the demise of Silicon Valley Bank than originally thought, having spent millions of shareholder and apparently, depositors, money on various politically motivated projects including decarbonization and equity-based discrimination.
Biden Blocks Anti-ESG Measure with First Veto of His Presidency

March 21, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden, in the first veto of his presidency, rejected a Republican proposal to prevent pension fund managers from basing investment decisions on environmental, social and governance factors like climate change.