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SEC Takes First Steps on New Climate Disclosure Rules

SEC Takes First Steps on New Climate Disclosure Rules

SEC Takes First Steps on New Climate Disclosure Rules

During the 2020 campaign for the White House, President Joe Biden declared climate change the “number one issue facing humanity,” and explicitly called for greater corporate transparency on the subject. His administration’s call for a revie...

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Resistance to Corporate Diversity Initiatives is Likely Futile

Resistance to Corporate Diversity Initiatives is Likely Futile

Resistance to Corporate Diversity Initiatives is Likely Futile

After two decades, you could make a strong case that the dominant story in corporate America of the 21st century has been the growing influence of environmental, social and governance issues. Recent pushback against corporate diversity and...

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Fink Leads Charge on Climate Disclosures

Footprint in mud with deep tread

Larry Fink may be the single most influential voice in the ESG movement—or at least the E movement. The annual letter that BlackRock’s chief executive writes to CEOs may have overtaken Warren Buffet’s letter to shareholders as the most impo...

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Issuers Speak Volumes on Insurrection

Issuers Speak Volumes on Insurrection

Issuers Speak Volumes on Insurrection

Avoiding politics is a popular conversational tactic today—so much so that some people may not even know how their family and friends feel about the insurrection in Washington, DC. They do know, however, what Chevron, Sony and Axe body spra...

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ESG Playbook Offers Proxy-Season Tips

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Black Lives Matter. Raging wildfires. A deadly pandemic. A bitter election. The issues dominating American life in 2020 related closely to environmental, social, and governance topics. The same could be said of the 2020 proxy season, during...

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