(Outlet: Wharton Business Daily) In this episode of Wharton Business Daily, Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Sarah Light explains private vs. public environmental governance, and how the former is now an accepted and powerful environmental policy tool, as discussed in her new book, Private Environmental Governance.…Read More
(Outlet: The New York Times) In this Letter to the Editor, Eric W. Orts, professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, responds to “Fringe Climate Proposal, a Giant Space Parasol, Gains Interest” (front page, Feb. 3).…Read More
(Outlet: Carbon Herald) In this interview, Susanna Berkouwer, Assistant Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, explains what their cookstove research in Kenya has revealed.…Read More
(Outlet: University of Pennsylvania Almanac) R. Jisung Park, an assistant professor in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) with a secondary appointment at the Wharton School, has been selected by the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) as one of 17 visiting scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year.…Read More
(Outlet: Newsweek) California homeowners have seen the cost of their insurance surge in recent months, as several private insurers have stopped offering new policies in the state for fears of more frequent, devastating wildfires.…Read More
(Outlet: Insurance Business Magazine) Insurance policyholder advocates believe reinsurance program is needed amid insurer pullbacks.…Read More
(Outlet: The People Space) A recent paper argues there is no statistically strong relationship between diversity, equity and inclusion and better financial performance. Does this lessen the business case for investing in DEI or should the case instead rest on a cultural and moral imperative rather than profit?…Read More
(Outlet: Mother Jones) In recent years, top asset management firms from BlackRock to Vanguard have expanded what’s known as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing—a way to screen investments not just for profit potential, but also for a company’s record on everything from climate change to workplace diversity. Strive’s goal, however, is the exact opposite: to undo what the fund’s leaders see as a growing culture of “wokeness” that has infected boardrooms across America. …Read More
(Outlet: S&P Global) Barclays PLC can no longer underwrite municipal bonds in Texas after the state’s attorney general determined the bank may be a “fossil fuel boycotter” in violation of state law.…Read More
(Outlet: Forbes Online) After the first calendar year of outflows from US sustainable funds in 2023, the time has come for investors to consider rational sustainability as a middle ground between abandoning and continuing with ESG investing.…Read More
