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Banks Face Push to Disclose how their Lending Leads to Pollution
June 22, 2022
According to a group of Democratic senators, new rules proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that require companies to reveal detailed data about their greenhouse gas emissions should also have to make public how their lending and investment activities impact pollution.
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Spectator Australia: Australia’s corporate Surveillance State
June 22, 2022
In Australia it was recently discovered by consumer group Choice that multiple corporations including Kmart and Bunnings Warehouse refer to facial recognition in their privacy policies and may have been using facial recognition technology, ‘capturing the biometric data of their customers’.
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New Index Grades 50 of the Largest U.S. Companies on their Support for First Amendment Rights
June 14, 2022
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Inspire Insight, a Christian financial analytics firm have quantified companies restriction of their employees’ freedoms of speech and religion by launching the 2022 Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index, ranking 50 of the largest U.S. companies according to whether their policies and actions supported or undermined Americans’ First Amendment rights.
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Rafi Cites For-Profit UN-ESG Consulting Firms to explain why Sustainability is Crucial for Corporate Strategy
June 14, 2022
Global Consultant Talal Rafi writing for the World Economic Forum explains how sustainability is crucial for corporation strategy if they want to remain relevant, citing for profit UN-ESG (Economic, Social, Governance) consulting firms as examples.
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Bloomberg: SEC Proposals for ESG Ignore 80 Years of Financial Science
June 08, 2022
Former managing director and head of financial market research at AQR Capital Management Aaron Brown argues that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is right to be concerned about « greenwashing » of investments with environmental, social and governance considerations but is ignoring 80 years of financial science which will lead to ineffective solutions.
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