environmental social and governance (ESG) News

House Committee Says It Finds Evidence of ‘Climate Cartel’

The House Judiciary Committee said it’s found “substantial evidence of collusion and anticompetitive behavior” by the financial industry to “impose radical ESG-goals” on US companies. An interim report published by the Republican-led committee said “a cartel” of financial firms and …

Datamaran Announces Deal With Deloitte to Use ESG Software

Datamaran, a provider of sustainability-related software, announced a collaboration with Deloitte in three European markets to provide companies with ways to better assess their environmental and social impacts and risks. In the agreement, Deloitte will use Datamaran’s double-materiality analysis software …

Goldman Sachs Quits Global Climate Coalition for Banks

Goldman Sachs said it has quit a sector coalition aimed at aligning bank lending and investment activities with global efforts to fight climate change, marking the latest high-profile departure of a U.S. financial firm from the group. The U.S. investment …

Trump Administration Seen as Likely to Dismantle ESG Rules

President-elect Donald Trump will likely move to dismantle ESG-related regulations in the US when he takes office in January. That would mean blocking Securities and Exchange Commission rules for corporate and fund disclosures, and Labor Department requirements on pension funds, …

Companies Boost Social and Climate Reporting Amid ESG Backlash

Many U.S. companies have stepped up reporting on environmental and social matters in recent years even with sustained pressure from conservative politicians, data reviewed by Reuters shows. The trend shows the importance investors and regulators now place on environmental, social …

ESG’s Appeal Fades in Emerging Markets as Profit Seeking Eclipses Virtue

Sustainable investments in emerging markets are facing a reckoning as environmental, social and governance strategies crumble under the weight of ongoing capital outflows and the appeal of higher-yielding energy bonds. ESG investments in developing nations have floundered over the course …

An ESG Backlash Erupts in Europe on World’s Strictest Rules

For TotalEnergies SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne, the difference in the performance of his company’s stock and that of Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest US producer of oil and gas, is in no small part explained by an acronym: …

Texas Officials Sued Over Anti-ESG Law Targeting Wall Street

The American Sustainable Business Council sued Texas officials in an effort to block a law that restricts state investments with certain financial firms because of their energy policies. The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Austin, argues the 2021 …

Net Zero’s Carbon Removal Conundrum

To achieve net-zero emissions, where emissions and removals of greenhouse gas pollution balance each other out, governments and corporations must do two things: cut emissions as much as possible and remove any residual pollution from the atmosphere. To gauge the …

Goldman Sachs’ Fund Division to Leave Climate Investor Group

Goldman Sachs’ fund division is to leave investor engagement group Climate Action 100+, joining other financial services companies which have pulled out amid a political backlash in the United States. U.S. members of global climate-focused coalitions have come under pressure …