For example, emissions shows the highest correlation with the other impact categories (91-49%), in all sectors, except for Utilities and Basic Materials, where seems to be a poor predictor of waste and water footprint (see supplementary material, SM4). Fig. 3: Sustainalytics ESG ratings ...
ESG awareness and increasing data open up new possibilities in Credit, shifting the stance from one that's reactive and punitive — i.e., not investing in risky companies with poor ESG performance — to one that's proactive and can reward companies for ESG improvement. For instance, we have...
Much has been said recently about how the US is dividing into different camps. Our data shows that this may be true within the company site selection process. Companies with poor ESG practices may be gravitating towards locations that have other poor performing entities and vice versa. Does this...
2024). In most cases, compliance with environmental regulations hardly brings enterprises any direct or tangible benefits, violations, however, often lead them to grave economic losses. To conform to environmental regulations without incurring a rise in cost, enterprises often resort to ESG decoupling ...
Due to the novelty of corporate governance rules in emerging economies, which could impact management policies and readability of the statement by the chai
Investors that face high normative pressure, like sovereign wealth funds that must follow their governments’ leads, or pension funds that are questioned by their beneficiaries over sustainability performance, invest less in unsustainable companies than investors with few constraints, such as hedge funds....
demonstrating that how it deals with stakeholders and customers alike with the same sense of responsibility and commitment and how it engages with investors and regulators on ESG risks and solutions. Apart from core business activities, the company also focusses on financial education, disaster prepare...
In summary, work on reactivity and isomorphism suggests that firms are likely to conform to ESG ratings, internalising, adapting to and seeking to improve their scores on constituent criteria. As such, the very act of evaluation might be expected to transform rated entities, with corporations beco...
In my experience, it is not a good idea to try and agree the notes with the employee because you can get bogged down in whether the employee said “could/should/may”, etc. Inevitably what you will get back from the employee is what he thinks he should have said with the benefit of...
Legitimacy theory helps to explain why companies with poor environmental performance have higher environmental scores (Mahoney et al.,2013). In the literature, we find that the more extensive disclosure companies provide, the more the firm’s reputation is enhanced (Cho & Patten,2007; Cho et al...