(Outlet: The Daily Pennsylvanian) Arthur van Benthem and Sarah Light on showcasing climate-related research to students.…Read More
Wharton hosts Climate Prof event for Climate Week
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Exxon’s Exodus: Employees Have Finally Had Enough of Its Toxic Culture
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Vit Henisz on Exxon Mobil’s internal resistance to addressing climate change …Read More
Banks and business leaders who use ESG aren’t ‘woke.’ They’re protecting their bottom lines
(Outlet: Fortune) Vit Henisz on “woke capitalism” and the anti-ESG movement.…Read More
Business Schools Are Beginning to Embrace Stakeholder Inclusion
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Vit Henisz on Wharton becoming the first large MBA program to offer a major in ESG factors for business.…Read More
How ESG investing got tangled up in America’s culture wars
(Outlet: NPR) Vit Henisz on how ESG is an investment strategy, not a political argument.…Read More
How Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action
(Outlet: The New York Times) Nearly two dozen Republican state treasurers around the country are working to thwart climate action on state and federal levels, fighting regulations that would make clear the economic risks posed by a warming world, lobbying against climate-minded nominees to key federal posts and using the tax dollars they control to punish companies that want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…Read More
Needed: A COVID course correction
(Outlet: The Boston Globe) President Biden’s rebound case of COVID-19 has highlighted the continued public health threat posed by the rapidly spreading BA.5 variant. COVID infections are becoming more common, with cases spiking in most states just when population immunity is dropping.…Read More
ESG Under Fire in US State Capitols
(Outlet: Financial Times) This past weekend we read with interest The Economist’s deep dive into environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. The central argument is that ESG “is deeply flawed”; that it is riddled with greenwashing and has become “an unholy mess that needs to be ruthlessly streamlined”. Those who have been around this space for a while know there is a good bit of it that is indeed in need of a good pruning.…Read More
Banks Far From Hitting Paris Climate Targets, Groups Warn
(Outlet: Washington Post) Vit Henisz comments on a new report about banks’ climate efforts.…Read More
Conservative Shareholders Strike Back
(Outlet: POLITICO) – ANTI-ESG GAINS STEAM — A lot of ink has been spilled on the upward trend of progressive shareholder resolutions at investor meetings.…Read More