Emily Glazer
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219 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2017
last heard Jan 2021
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The Securities and Exchange Commission may very well end up requiring companies to disclose information about ESG risks, but it's also possible that we'll see ESG factor into decisions made by the Department of Labor and other agencies as well.
Thank you for having me.
Sure.
ESG is going to be a buzz acronym that we're going to be hearing a lot more.
It stands for environmental, social and governance.
And that could hit across so many different areas, whether, you know, climate change, diversity and inclusion, corporate governance, you name it.
It really factors into a bunch of companies across sectors, both large and small.
A number of folks are expecting the Biden administration to really tackle ESG, and it could come from a couple different places.
The Securities and Exchange Commission may very well end up requiring companies to disclose information about ESG risks, but it's also possible that we'll see ESG factor into decisions made by the Department of Labor and other agencies as well.
Well, we've seen companies across sectors, but especially in financial services, oil and gas, the electric industry and elsewhere, increasingly put out voluntary sustainability reports.
And a lot of these will often include ESG factors, whether it has, you know, efforts on carbon emissions or diversity and inclusion or, you
even just ways that companies are reducing their own carbon footprints.
But this is all voluntary, and the companies are choosing what statistics to include, what to include at all, and measuring it in their own ways.
And that's quite different than a requirement from the SEC that would make this information material and have more consistency in what companies need to disclose and how they disclose it and how they measure it.
Well, ESG in terms of investing has been around for many years and it got more popular several years ago.
So this is nothing too new on the investor front.
Some of the really big firms like BlackRock and Vanguard for years have been developing new products and focusing more on ESG in their investing.
But we're also seeing it
you know, from big companies too because they're realizing their institutional investors may not want to invest in them if they have these types of risks because it can hugely impact, you know, company reputation, company earnings.
and so on and so forth.
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