Sustainability Highlights

Corporate executives and board members may wonder what specific factors are shaping the scores and ratings assigned to their companies by the major ESG ratings agencies. These include MSCI, Sustainalytics (part of Morningstar),... Read full issue >Read full issue >

We’ve reached an all-time high in sustainability reporting, according to the Governance & Accountability Institute which points out that today 96% of S&P 500 companies publish ESG reports in some form, along with 81% of Russell... Read full issue >

Critics have often called it "the Californication of America" when CA lawmakers move to address an important issue head-on. The good news is that across the land progressive thinkers celebrate many such developments in the... Read full issue >Read full issue >

Such is the state of the anti-ESG movement as we enter Fall 2023: The State of Florida’s legislature recently passed, and Governor DeSantis signed, an “anti-ESG” law that they hope will ensure Florida’s position as the “standard... Read full issue >Read full issue >

As we prepare this issue of the Sustainability Newsletter, we cannot look away from six facts.Fact: Three new Atlantic Ocean hurricanes are in formation and moving over warmer ocean waters toward the Caribbean Basin islands.... Read full issue >Read full issue >

Can you read tea leaves? No doubt that is what both corporate sector and capital markets leaders are doing as they peruse the possible meanings of SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s recent comments at the FSOC (Financial Stability... Read full issue >Read full issue >

According to a 2022 report by the Governance and Accountability Institute, 96% of S&P 500 companies now publish ESG reports in some form. Moreover, 31% of CEOs indicated in the same KPMG survey that a focus on ESG improves... Read full issue >