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Total: 284

Are you aware of how much progress we are making on addressing climate change? There are all-these-p

NGOs have filed a lawsuit against BNP Paribas, arguing that bank has failed in its “Duty of Care”, u

Solar, So Hot Right Now

2023/5/5

To meet net-zero ambitions, it looks like we’re going to need a whole lot of solar energy, and fast.

There is a considerate environmental cost to e-cigarettes. The critical metals that make up their ba

This week we discuss why air pollution is a topic that investors may want to take greater interest i

The Colorado river is shrinking and the tens of millions of Americans that rely on the water source

Diet ESG

2023/4/10

This week we discuss the new anti-obesity drugs that many have claimed could spell an end to the wor

From being a go-to bank for US tech start-ups, SVB’s collapse was swift and chaotic. As investors an

South Korea’s government has proposed a change to laws governing working hours. We look at why the p

ESG has always been different things to different people. But some of its newest critics suggest tha

A Japanese publishing company allegedly bribed an Olympic committee member to become an official spo

The derailment of a train carrying possibly hazardous materials near East Palestine, Ohio on Februar

The Labor of ESG

2023/2/10

There have been over 70,000 people laid off from their jobs in the tech industry – an amount unseen

Gautam Adani, whose empire the Adani Group, was rising along with India’s economy. Then a little kno

The US central bank wants climate data from the country’s “big six” banks. It’s a telling shift and

The Conflict Within ESG

2023/1/20

What if there is a water utility that saves a city millions of gallons worth of water a day, but als

After energy prices surged, oil and gas companies reported record profits in 2022. We discuss where

CRISPR Comes to ESG

2023/1/6

As drought is followed by flood, there is renewed talk of how gene-editing techniques can be used to

As the biodiversity focused COP15 continues in Montreal, we discuss how investors and companies have

An audio exploration of our latest annual trend report on the ESG trends that may shape the environm