Brand name and reputation is the number one reason businesses engage in ESG efforts. With 78% of respondents in a survey published last Wednesday responding that brand name and reputation topped the list of matters affected by ESG, that 78% response was single highest number ...

Public companies in the U.S. find themselves at a dynamic time in the emergent environmental social governance (“ESG”) space. Socially conscious investors, employees, vendors, suppliers, consumers, not to mention stockholder environmental proxy proposals, and the like are driving companies to make ESG statements. This is ...

We are regularly asked if there is a checklist for ESG compliance and while there is not, with promised federal regulations not yet promulgated, there is good guidance available. A limited number of companies are Maryland based, but the State’s newly enacted corporate diversity statute ...

The “Social” components of ESG are among least measured factors in corporate sustainability despite being among the most impactful. Social starts with a company’s value system and a principled approach to doing business. Often cited as a checklist for Social factors are the first six ...

The release last week of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth climate assessment report ignited the already combustible and quickly spreading wildfire that is ESG. Few have actually read the much quoted Summary for Policymakers and of course even fewer have read ...

Last Friday the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted “to approve Nasdaq’s proposed rule changes requiring issuers to disclose certain information about the diversity of the company’s board.” The first of its kind order by any U.S. government body, the SEC is being heralded ...

Companies are under increasing pressure to do the right thing and to report it through publicly released environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. While investors, regulators, shareholders, customers and other stakeholders often focus on environmental and social matters, from climate change to Black Lives Matter, ...

Whether you own a small private business, serve on the board of directors of a public company or are a lay leader at a religious institution, you must know the essential facts and details about ESG.  ESG is an acronym for “environmental, social and governance”.  ...