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Alphabet Deploys $5.7 Billion from Largest-Ever Corporate Sustainability Bond

August 24, 2022

Alphabet’s published 2022 Sustainable Bond Impact Report highlighted that the company has completed the allocation of the proceeds of its 2020 $5.7 billion sustainability bond, which focused on green building and renewable energy.
SEC Attempts to Regulate Indefinable “ESG” Topics

August 17, 2022

Richard Morrison writing for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) breaks down the issues concerning the Security and Exchange Commission’s attempt to pass a proposal that would amend the current Commission rule on investment company names in order to attempt to regulate Environmental Social Governance (ESG) topics.
Peter Thiel-Backed ETF Aims to Free Investors from ESG

August 17, 2022

A new exchange-traded fund, backed by Peter Thiel, the Strive U.S. Energy ETF (DRLL), which invests in broad energy stocks via the Solactive United States Energy Regulated Capped Index, aims to free investors from the “destructive mandates” of traditional environment, social and governance (ESG) investing.
Japan Begins to Turn From ESG Investing

August 09, 2022

Five years after the launch of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainable development goals (SDG), Japan has begun to shows signs of a pivot away from these types of investments as Japanese mainstream media increasingly questions the wisdom of these policies.
Zammit-Lucia: Analysis of the Future of ESG

August 09, 2022

Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia writing in CEOWorld discusses the recent article in the Economist dissecting the future of Environmental, Society and Governance (ESG) and goes further, suggesting the failures of ESG are not simply the in the results but the framework itself.
Rapoza in Forbes: Analysis of impact SEC Climate Disclosure Requirements will have on U.S. agriculture

August 03, 2022

Kenneth Rapoza writing for Forbes analyses how environmental policies to fight climate change are having a negative effect for farmers, negatively affecting the supply chain and forcing offshoring of locally grown food.
Hoffman: ESG Is Fueling Inflation Woes

August 03, 2022

Gabriella Hoffman writing for realclearenergy.com explores how two major factors, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan as well as the governments’ push for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), especially in energy policy, are driving inflation in America.
CPA Practice Advisor: IFRS Consolidates with Value Reporting Foundation

August 03, 2022

Following a commitment made at COP26 to support the IFRS Foundation’s new International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) work to develop a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures for the capital markets, the IFRS Foundation has consolidated the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF) into the IFRS Foundation.
Ellfeldt in E&E News: The Evolution of ESG

July 27, 2022

Avery Ellfeldt writing in E&E News explains how ESG investing, which began as an idea among low-level staffers at the United Nations evolved into a vague symbol with few guidelines that is a driving force in the financial arena, worth nearly $2.8 trillion in assets worldwide.
The SEC's Climate Mission Creep Will Be Very Costly

July 27, 2022

David Williams, president of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, highlights the recent mission creep of the Securities and Exchange Commission concerning the climate change agenda including the new process required for companies that will come at an added cost to investors and consumers, more than doubling costs.