The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed
This report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
It’s an open question whether ESG issues will remain as salient to investors during a global pandemic and the associated economic downturn. One of Inherent Group’s advisors, George Serafeim, bets they will.
A summary of UNPRI’s 2020 Assessment Report on Inherent Group follows: To access the data portal, click here.
LP scrutiny of approaches to ESG is intensifying, with climate change a key concern. Here are seven takeaways from this Responsible Investment 2020 report by Private Equity International.
NYU Center for Sustainable Business analyzed to two different industries (agriculture and automotive) to answer the question: Do sustainable practices lead to positive financial return for the business?
An analysis of more than 900,000 private companies finds compelling evidence of a relationship between the gender composition of directorships and insolvency risk.
McKinsey analysis finds statistically significant correlation between ethnic/cultural and gender diversity in leadership and financial outperformance.
This post makes the business case, in terms of ROIC and ROE, for high representation of women on boards of directors.
This post makes the financial case, as measured by ROE and total return to shareholders, for gender diversity.
McKinsey analyzes how advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth. MGI Power of parity_Full report_September 2015
Morgan Stanley draws the link between diversity and stock performance.
This piece outlines the link between ESG performance and portfolio performance.
The authors study the financial impact of investor activism promoting ESG improvements. Click here to access the study.
An empirical investigation of the risk-return relationship between corporate environmental performance and financial performance, with a focus on companies’ carbon footprint.
The performance implications of adopting strategic sustainability practices for both return on capital and expectations of future performance, as reflected in price to book valuation multiples.
How performance on financially material ESG issues, as identified by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) can contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
An investigation of how a corporate culture of sustainability affects multiple facets of corporate behavior and performance outcomes.
An exploration of the relative performance of portfolio decarbonization strategies, and how performance is affected by institutional investor fund flows.
The authors suggest more effective ways to integrate ESG data, however imperfect, into investment decision-making processes.