ESG Initiative News

April 19, 2021 Ben Thomas Investors are increasingly concerned with how their investments are affected by the impacts of climate change and the role that companies they invest in play in the transition to a low-carbon economy. This concern has not gone unnoticed by regulators and financial institutions—including the Securities…Read More

April 1, 2021 Eve Robinson Eve Robinson is a fourth-year student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Huntsman Program. She is concentrating in Environmental Policy and Management at Wharton and studying International Studies in the College. Her interests are in environmental justice, education policy, and urban sustainable development. From 2010 to…Read More

February 11, 2021 Monica Volodarsky Monica is a senior at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania studying Finance and Social Impact & Responsibility. She is passionate about utilizing private-public partnerships to catalyze ecosystem-oriented positive social change.  How does one tree create a dip in America’s GDP? It falls…Read More

January 27th, 2021 Zoë Linder-Baptie As the sixth largest city in the United States, Philadelphia faces a myriad of risks due to its major transportation corridors, including two rivers, and the nearby technological hazard of the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery. We also face extreme weather on a regular basis.…Read More

January 13, 2021 Carolyn Kousky This blog post originally appeared in The Hill's Changing America as an Opinion Piece on December 31, 2020. Healthy ecosystems support society with an array of important goods and services. They provide recreational opportunities, sequester carbon, purify our air and water, combat urban heat and increase…Read More