Sustainability Now
Episodes
The ESG Weekly: Opioids Rage During COVID‐19 and Politics in Georgia
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID‐19 pandemic has overshadowed the opioid epidemic in the US, but the opioid crisis in the has grown during the pandemic creating more probl...
The ESG Weekly: The ESG of Marine Shipping and Shadow Investing
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A ship blocked the entire Suez Canal! To honor that, we discuss the ESG of marine shipping, the industry that handles 90% of the world's shipping...
The ESG Weekly: Hydrogen and Heavy Industry
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Industries like steel and cement are some of the most important sectors and largest emitters of carbon dioxide. This is due both to the molecular make...
The ESG Weekly: Online Education in China and Antibiotics in Fast Food
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the largest online education companies are based in China. As the industry gets larger, so too does pushes for regulation and concern that com...
The ESG Weekly: Women Reduce Emissions and Voices from Home
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New research about sustained board gender diversity suggests that companies with more people that identify as women demonstrated a stronger track reco...
The ESG Weekly: The Pay is Very High and Oil Spills on Rigs
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How a company sets CEO pay is an important function of its board of directors. When its effective, pay can align a CEOs interests with the strategic g...
The ESG Weekly: Sustainability‐Linked Bonds Hit the Scene and Amazon Gets a New Executive Chair
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As Schneider Electric and LafargeHolcim issue their first sustainability‐linked bonds, we ask how to tell apart a marketing exercise from a genuine ...
The ESG Weekly: Energy Grid Resiliency and GM's EV Push
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As Texas continues to suffer from power outages caused by a rare cold front, we discuss how energy grid resiliency plays an important role in preparin...
The ESG Weekly: National interests trump shareholders as French government blocks Carrefour acquisition and Exxon inches forward on climate
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Exxon has pledged to step up its carbon capture efforts, but climate‐focused investors may be keeping their champagne on ice. And although the COVID...
The ESG Weekly: Nuclear is Back in Japan and Apple v Facebook
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Japan announced that they would be recommissioning their nuclear power plants in order to meet their 2050 net zero goals. We discuss what the ESG impl...
The ESG Weekly: Another Larry Fink Letter and Market Concentration
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, has issued another public letter to companies and CEOs about climate change. Last year it was about getting companie...
The ESG Weekly: Disenfranchised Shareholders and ESG at Banks
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Britain's split from the European Union has just taken full effect and there is already trouble in the airline industry. In this episode, we disc...
The ESG Weekly: Vaccine Distribution and Arctic Oil Sales
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COVID‐19 vaccines have been administrated to select groups in certain countries. But we need to vaccinate a large part of the world in order to emer...
Holiday Special: Santa's daunting carbon footprint, everlasting energy for Hannukah and an inspirational new food lands just in time for Kwanzaa
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As 2020 comes to a skidding halt, we throw a glittery holiday lens over innovative and hopeful developments in energy and food. While 2021 may see res...
The ESG Weekly: Water Futures and Diversity at Nasdaq
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest, Tim McCourt from CME Group joins us this week to discuss their launch of the first ever water futures based on the Nasdaq Veles Califor...
The ESG Weekly: Investors are Mad at Exxon, and Execs are Mad at Shell
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about an interactive chart in this episode, the link to it is here: https://www.msci.com/our-solutions/esg-investing/2021-esg-trends-to-watch/...
The ESG Weekly: COVID‐19 vaccines peer out the lab door at the big, wide world and worker wellbeing gets squeezed in competitive South Korean logistics market
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pfizer‐BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford‐Astra Zeneca are all looking to roll out COVID‐19 vaccines after successful phase 3 trials. Amid the hope of...
The ESG Weekly: Facebook and The Downgrade
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We downgraded Facebook from a BBB to a B; but why? Well, it has to do with a little something called governance, and the fact that we revamped how we ...
The ESG Weekly: Joe Biden and the Climate
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President‐elect Joe Biden has indicated that, early in his administration, he will sign executive orders focused on combating climate change: He wil...
The ESG Weekly: Leadership and Interconnectivity
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WAs we all stress over the US election, it is a good time to reflect on what makes an ideal leader and what makes a tyrannical one. In this episode, s...
The ESG Weekly: Roundtable with Companies on Diversity, and the DOJ's Lawsuit Against Google
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We held a (virtual) roundtable in September with companies to discuss racial diversity in the workplace. In this episode, we examine the details of th...
A zombie in the boardroom? Putting the 'spooky' back in ESG
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for our Halloween special as we hunt down zombie directors, test a shareholder's arsenal of zombie deterrents and map out some handy esca...
The ESG Weekly: Health care and unemployment, and the largest COVID bond ever
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As millions of Americans continue to be unemployed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the insurance industry is scrambling to figure out how to deal wit...
The ESG Weekly: Pandemics breed contradictions, and racial diversity data during proxy season
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, there has been more single-used plastic purchased in 2020 than ever before. We discuss what this and other increases i...
The ESG Weekly: Japan is not counting votes, and GE gets served
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On September 24, it was revealed that the biggest provider of shareholder services in Japan had miscounted investor votes at the annual meetings of ne...
The ESG Weekly: Biodiversity Risks, and the Largest IPO Ever
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new organization was created in July to address the financial industry's role in biodiversity destruction. Called the Task Force on Nature-rela...
The ESG Weekly: The carbon plans of tech, and the FinCEN Files
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For climate week, we looked at the climate plans of four tech companies: Facebook, Alphabet, Apple, and Microsoft. And only one of them is committed t...
ESG Spotlight: Climate Scenario Analysis in the Financial Sector
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As climate week kicks off in New York, we break down the basics of climate scenario analysis using the example of MSCI’s Climate Value at Risk model...
The ESG Weekly: The Business of Disaster, and Apple's E‐Waste Problem
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There have been a record amount of natural disasters in 2020 and there are certain companies that position themselves as the solution for recovery aft...
The ESG Weekly: COVID‐19 pushes the world into an awkward middle ground, and we revisit the quandary of fake news
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A polarized election and social unrest have raised the stakes on content integrity for Facebook, Google and friends. Meanwhile the pandemic’s long‐...
The ESG Weekly: Hurricane Laura wreaks havoc, Rio Tinto atones for damaging aboriginal heritage site and Microsoft mulls Tik Tok acquisition
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
September brings a change in season as companies navigate shifting ESG risks. Bonus cuts may not be enough for Rio Tinto to win back community trust, ...
How human capital and corporate culture have evolved due to COVID‐19
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We laid our cards on the table and predicted five trends that would reshape ESG investing in January 2020. But then fate played its COVID‐19 wildcar...
The ESG Weekly: Uber and Lyft drivers are now employees, and McDonald's sues it former CEO
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
First, we discuss the ruling by a California judge that Uber and Lyft must now designate its drivers as employees, striking a blow to both Uber and Ly...
The ESG Weekly: Companies say HVAC systems are the answer to COVID‐19, and social bonds overtake green bonds
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the world cautiously moves back indoors, travels on planes and subways, many have been promoting the use of HVAC systems that can dilute the viral ...
The ESG Weekly: We can measure a country's ESG risk, and Nike fires its diversity chief
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A country's ESG risk is made up of many factors: Protests and civil unrest, public health crises, labor strikes, natural disasters, and environme...
The ESG Weekly: Airlines are bailed out by ESG, and people are sanctioned with companies
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When the pandemic was in full force, 12 airlines were bailed out by their respective governments. But there were stipulations to accepting these bailo...
The ESG Weekly: Rewarding CEOs for being good, and immigrants develop a lot of our technology
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Does rewarding CEOs for things like more diversity, better climate policy, and better health and safety actually work? Or are investors just giving ri...
The ESG Weekly: Pipelines are OVER; and are drug prices too high?
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A ruling by a US judge has put the entire oil and gas pipeline industry at risk in the US, and a lot of it is because companies have terrible communit...
The ESG Weekly: The importance of scope 3 emissions and the Facebook boycott
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are three types of emissions ‐ scope 1, 2, and 3; and while scope 3 are the hardest to measure, they can teach investors the most about a comp...
The ESG Weekly: Wirecard collapse exposes lack of proper governance
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This Thursday, one of the hottest companies in Europe, Wirecard, filed for insolvency as its former CEO was arrested on suspicion of false accounting ...
The ESG Weekly: As Norilsk counts the cost of a diesel spill in the arctic, thawing permafrost sounds a cautionary tale
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The spilling of 21,000 tons of diesel in Siberia in late May, 2020 echoes the Exxon Valdez disaster from more than 30 years ago. But the case of Noril...
The ESG Weekly: Racial diversity data, contractor safety at construction companies during COVID‐19
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the complexity of collecting and using companies' racial diversity data, and then we discuss how at risk construction compa...
ESG Spotlight: Looking at externally managed companies through a freshly polished lens
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When a company hands over the reins to an external manager, it shifts the dynamic between shareholder, board and management. And although that may off...
The ESG Weekly: Twitter curates content but Facebook does not, there are some companies cutting carbon
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with our head of ESG research, Linda‐Eling Lee discussing the global protests surging across the US and the world; then we discu...
The ESG Weekly: Dam failure floods a Dow Chemical complex threatening toxic sites, the physical risk of climate change
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of flooding, exposing companies with operations that abut or lay within the US Federal Emergen...
The ESG Weekly: The ESG of vaccines, and shareholders say JPM must talk climate
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are some promising COVID‐19 vaccines in early human trails, but we have some questions if they are successful: Who will own the patent? Who wi...
The ESG Weekly: Safety at airports, biofuel bailouts, and EU Taxonomy
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have COVID, will travel: As regions begin to tentatively reopen, airport employees find themselves on the frontline of possibly sick passengers, we di...
ESG Spotlight: Oil, gas, and the small matter of an energy transition
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With COVID‐19 hitting the pause button on the global economy, many are wondering if this is the start of the end for the oil and gas industry. We br...
The ESG Weekly: Medical tourism and meat‐packers take a COVID‐19‐sized hit and warning bells ring over deforestation pledges
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like a cleaver and a scalpel, COVID‐19 is slicing through pre‐existing ESG vulnerabilities in the meat‐packing and medical tourism industries. P...
The ESG Weekly: Investors are worrying about the wrong workplace safety measures, green buildings are healthier during pandemics, and what it is like to be in China right now
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At MSCI ESG Research, we spend a lot of time collecting information about workplace safety, but as economies start to reopen, we might need to pay att...
The ESG Weekly: Banks and recessions, Bayer calls a virtual meeting, and COVID‐19 is spreading in Japan
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the last recession, Banks were the villains but now they are the conduit through which governments are providing credit lifelines, we discussed who...
ESG Spotlight: Understanding indexes and ESG as COVID‐19 tightens the screws
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Skeptics and converts alike are watching how ESG performs under the pressure of COVID‐19. We review the evolution of ESG data in index construction ...
The ESG Weekly: COVID‐19 in private prisons, companies troubled in France, and investor sentiments on COVID
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first COVID‐19 deaths were recorded in a privately run prison this week, we discuss what this means for the future of the industry and what it m...
The ESG Weekly: Carbon emissions and pandemics, then we discuss how drugs are rushed forward
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During a global pandemic, carbon emissions decrease along with the economy and everything else, we discuss if it is a sustained decline or a respite; ...
Re-valuing real estate: investing in the eye of the hurricane
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this long‐form episode of ESG Now, we looked at sustainable real estate ‐ how the greening of the property portfolio will move from a nice‐to...
The ESG Weekly: How are companies considering ESG factors during the coronavirus pandemic?
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Companies are making drastic moves in an effort to survive as the economy comes to a grinding halt ‐ the market gets new rules, people get laid off,...
The ESG Weekly: Can bonds save us from the coronavirus? And old folks on boards
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Private companies are issuing coronavirus bonds in China in hopes to use the proceeds to fight the spread of the virus. But wait, it's only 10% o...
The ESG Weekly: Industries look to survive, adapt or capitalize as the Coronavirus marches on
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Airlines grit their teeth for now, but when the fog clears, labor practices may help some rise up faster than others. And for food retail and restaura...
The ESG Weekly: COVID‐2019 is a bellwether for investors on structural risks in companies, and the oil price wars get weirder
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What the novel coronavirus 2019 can tell us about workforces around the world and the risks unheeded by some companies. And then we discuss how the pr...
The ESG Weekly: Drug shortages and the coronavirus, from whence your drugs came
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The market is freaking out about the coronavirus because it is everywhere but Antarctica, and now everyday medicine is becoming scarce because of supp...
The ESG Weekly: The victims of Camp Fire 2018 are now owners of PG&E, the company that caused the wildfires.
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Camp Fire of 2018 was one of the worst wildfires in California's history. After it was found to be caused through negligence on the part of u...
The ESG Weekly: BP is going green and Japan decides the more coal the better for the week of February 17.
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
BP announced it would work toward a carbon‐neutral future, but that would mean it has to grown its revenue from renewables at speeds seen only by al...
The ESG Weekly: Does the 2019 Novel Coronavirus have any place in an ESG conversation? And the EU doubts the use of ESG ratings for the week of February 10.
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the 2019 Novel Coronavirus spreads with worrying speed, we debate the applicability of ESG when it comes to discussing infectious disease and short...
The ESG Weekly: Stakeholders are not happy about Siemens' coal by association for the week of February 3.
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Companies are finding they can now be guilty by association and attract the ire of stakeholders for something as simple as a railway. Siemens found th...
The ESG Weekly: Companies cannot please everyone, and how are tech companies and oil companies connected for the week of January 27.
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon employees publicly shamed the company over its Amazon Web Services' connection with oil and gas companies and US federal agencies. But how...
The ESG Weekly: Indigenous inclusion and carbon offsets can go hand-in-hand, for the week of January 20.
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
ConocoPhillips partnered with Aboriginal groups in Australia to implement a carbon offset program. It is innovative and considers more stakeholders th...
The ESG Weekly: Investors and world leaders are finally freaking out about the climate crisis, and a new regulation in California might change how big tech can use consumer data, all for the week of January 13.
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss The World Economic Forum's finding that, for the first time in its 15-year history, the climate crisis fills the top 5 risks...
The ESG Weekly: Wildfire in Australia poses problems for all, and a quick take on how we learned to stop worrying and love social media for the 2020 election, all for the January 6.
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss how insurance companies address the physical risks and business risks caused by climate disasters such as the wildfires in Austra...
The ESG Weekly: Diversity data matters more for investors than financial metrics can show, and Ric Marshall gives a hot take on the decision by Boeing to halt production of the 737 Max for the week of December 16.
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss our new report on the progress companies have made toward gender diversity after Intel decides to release all its pay data to the...
The ESG Weekly: Carbon emissions keep rising for EU automakers as people continue to buy SUVs, and two hot takes on Drax's net-negative carbon plan and Exxon's technical exoneration for the week of December 9.
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss how automakers in the EU are under pressure to lower emissions while European customers continue to buy more and more SUVs, and V...
Is Hacking Just An Evil Supervillain Trope, Or Something Investors Should Be Prepared For?
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From smart watches to smart TVs and connected homes, today's hackers are increasingly spoilt for choice. For the healthcare sector, hacking pacem...
The ESG Weekly: As the precarious work arrangements grow, investors might need to look at how companies control a workforce they don't claim as their own, and then two hot takes on Google's shakeup and coal's uninsurability for the week of December 2.
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Temporary, part‐time, contracted out, or contingent work arrangements are creating risks for investors acros...
The ESG Weekly: Should investors care about antibiotic resistance? And only a handful of companies are preventing a deforestation‐free supply chain for the week of November 18.
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Antibiotic resistance ‐ the ability of germs to defeat the drugs designed to kill them ‐ is one of the gre...
The ESG Weekly: Are wild and crazy founders really such a big deal for investors? And the streaming race is on for the week of November 11.
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: SoftBank decided all the wild and crazy founders its Vision Fund is investing in need some rules of operation ...
The ESG Weekly: The SEC is putting a gag order onto shareholders, and two spicy takes on Boeing and Saudi Aramco for the week of November 4.
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Ken Bertsch, the executive director of Council of Institutional Investors and an all‐knowing proxy god joins...
The Most Important Thing An Investor Should Know About Private Prisons: Who Do They Care About?
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Investors have witnessed an exodus from the private prison industry but what is the core function of a private prison ‐ is it to help prisoners? Is ...
The ESG Weekly: The case against Exxon might change how companies disclose about their climate woes, and the seas are rising up to consume us all for the week of October 28.
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: The Attorney General of New York alleges that Exxon first calculated the risks posed by climate change but the...
The ESG Weekly: How should shareholders deal with Zuckerberg ? And Intel plans to release gender and race pay data for the week of October 21.
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: A SPECIAL GUEST joins us to discuss how shareholders should deal with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg as the foun...
The ESG Weekly: South Africa's largest utility cannot abide, and a quick update on private prisons for the Week of October 14.
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: There are power cuts throughout South Africa after its largest utility Eskom has a number of generating units ...
The ESG Weekly: Companies are Hard to Trust When They Lie, And Labor Shortages Cause Concern for the Week of October 7.
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: 3M and DuPont failed to disclose their findings on the hazardous impact and proliferation of PFAS (0:40), and ...
The ESG Weekly: The Bosses Are Getting Too Much For Too Little, and Climate Change Is Coming For Your Real Estate for the Week of September 30
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: The Council of Institutional Investors recommendation that investors check their CEOs pay packages (0:42), and...
The ESG Weekly: Which shareholder action tool is best? And Thomas Cook collapses into liquidation for the Week of September 23
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: The different tools available to investors to address ESG risks (0:39), and Thomas Cook collapses into liquida...
The gig economy has split the workforce
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Those Facebook workers are actually contractors (1:16), it is not just Facebook because everyone uses temporary workers in vital company roles (2:00),...
The ESG Weekly: UAW Union Strikes at GM, and Australia Picks Health Over Coal for the Week of September 16
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: The United Auto Workers go on strike at GM (0:57), and Australia rejects a coal mine due to long‐term health...
The ESG Weekly: EDF Finds Faults in its Nuclear Plants, and Contract Workers are Employees for the Week of September 9
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Note! This is a re-released version with one detail corrected about nuclear power generation. Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Nuclear energy a...
The ESG Weekly: Data privacy and advertising don't mix, and glyphosate is banned again for the Week of September 2
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Companies selling data have difficulties keeping data private (0:43), and Germany bans glyphosate usage (9:06)...
The ESG Weekly: Johnson & Johnson's Brand and Opioids, and the Fashion Industry Makes Another Coalition for the Week of August 26
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Johnson & Johnson's brand wavers as the opioid crisis comes home (1:10), and the fashion industry tri...
The ESG Weekly: Singapore will track societal health with Fitbit, and shareholders no longer matter for the Week of August 19
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: The Singapore Health Board partners with Fitbit (0:54), and Meggin and Ric discuss the Business Roundtable&apo...
The hidden cost of cement
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is new stuff the best way to lower our emissions(3:36), maybe not because everything new uses everything old (7:40), well then should investors do som...
The ESG Weekly: Plastics and Fossil Fuel get more cozy, and two rapid fire takes on WeWork and disclosures for the Week of August 12
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Shell builds a petrochemical facility (0:41), and Matt and Ric quickly try to understand WeWork and the purpos...
The ESG Weekly: Walmart's CEO gets called out in the gun debate, and L Brands' CMO resigns amid company turmoil on the Week of August 5
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Walmart's CEO must address gun sales at his stores (0:44), and the CMO of L Brands resigns amid company t...
The ESG Weekly: Capital One: Who's in your wallet? And NGOs call Cargill the worst company in the world on the Week of July 29
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Capital One does not know who is in your wallet (0:38), and NGOs call Cargill the worst company in the world (...
The ESG Weekly: Equifax is fined a record USD$800 million after its 2017 data breach, and subprime auto loans area threaten both the auto industry and drivers on the Week of July 22
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Equifax is fined a record USD$800 million after its 2017 data breach (0:36), and subprime auto loans area thre...
The ESG Weekly: Water is Bigger in Texas and My Brand, My Ideology on the Week of July 15
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Texas landowners sell their water to oil companies in the desert (0:53), and companies get pulled into social ...
The ESG Weekly: Vedanta is a Mine Short and Direct Listing is the New Black on the Week of July 8
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Vedanta loses a mine, but is it Vedanta's fault (1:10), and Slack's direct listing works but does it...
The ESG Weekly: Tesla Delivers Cars and Wayfair's Labor Problem on the Week of July 1
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Tesla announces record delivery of cars (0:58), and Wayfair's labor walkout is the new CEO problem (5:03)...
The ESG Weekly: San Fran's E-Cigarette Ban and Chicken Collusion on the Week of June 25
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: San Francisco bans the use and sale of e-cigarettes (0:44), and poultry processors are accused of collusion in...
Tomorrow's Labor Solution Is... Unions?
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Marx's biggest meme was a labor innovation (2:42), but also an investor problem (4:48), but someone should tell South Korea (6:42) because t...
The ESG Weekly: Facebook's Libra and the Trans Mountain Pipeline on the Week of June 17
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Facebook announces its crypto solution in Libra (0:33), and Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline is approved ...
The ESG Weekly: Raytheon/UTC and Ocado's Vertical Farm Play on the Week of June 10
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week with ESG glasses: Raytheon/UTC could have a human capital problem (1:11), and Ocado's vertical farm is a sustainability lov...