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How Autodesk's CFO is tackling sustainability—from home remodels to 'smart cities'

Sustainability and financial priorities are inherently linked, Debbie Clifford says.

Fortune

Kansas passes anti-ESG bill, but it's milder than some want

A proposal designed to thwart environmentally and socially conscious investing has cleared the Kansas Legislature but divisions within its GOP majorities kept the measure from being a strong as some conservatives wanted

The Independent UK

Economy and Society, April 4, 2023: Ballotpedia launches database of asset management companies that contract with state pensions

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

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Why CEOs are going all in on the energy transition

Money is flowing out of ESG funds...to climate funds.

Fortune

Chipotle's bonus program rewards a metric that 73% of Fortune 500 companies now use to set executive compensation

The compensation plan holds leadership accountable to reach set goals, says Chipotle's chief corporate affairs officer.

Fortune

House fails to overturn veto of ESG legislation

Ballotpedia

ETF Funds for Anti-ESG Investors

A new crop of anti-ESG ETF funds offers an alternative to investments that focus on environmental, social and corporate governance issues.

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Biden's First Veto Protects and Promotes ESG

What at first appears to be deregulation is actually economic activism in disguise.

Reason

Biden vetoes Congressional Review Act resolution that aimed to block ESG retirement plan rule

Ballotpedia

Biden’s first veto backs pension investments in ESG - Roll Call

President Joe Biden vetoed an attempt to block pension investment managers from weighing environmental and social justice factors.

Roll Call

Why Pinterest's new CSO is also the head of the company's public affairs

Pinterest appointed its first-ever CSO, LeMia Jenkins Thompson, in January, a month ahead of releasing the company's inaugural ESG report.

Fortune

Critics blame ESG for Silicon Valley Bank failure

Ballotpedia

Conservative group takes anti-ESG campaign to the next level

It calls ESG an "existential threat to our liberty."

Axios

Congress rejects ESG in retirement plans

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Q&A: Indonesia’s new capital chief Bambang Susantono

Man in charge of capital project tells Al Jazeera he is confident Nusantara will be a ‘liveable and loveable’ place.

Tribune News Service

Texas’ next ESG target will be insurers: ‘We’re gonna teach them some manners’

Texas’ fight against environmental, social and corporate governance policies may soon expand to another front: insurance companies.

Tribune News Service

Anti-ESG crusader wants to take Trump’s agenda to ‘next level’

Ohio biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is basing his long-shot Republican campaign for president in 2024 on persuading even hard-core supporters of Donald Trump that he can take the former president’s “America First” agenda “to the next level.”

Bangkok Post

Baker Tilly Asia expansions

Thailand and other Asia Pacific countries hold great opportunity for their economy to grow and for Baker Tilly to expand its presence here after the London-based global accounting firm posted a record revenue of US$1 billion from this region last year, executives say.

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Axios

GOP pits endangered Democrats against Biden with sensitive votes

Two Senate Democrats voted for an ESG resolution that Biden has promised to veto.

The Independent UK

What is ESG investing and why do some hate it so much?

After starting as a niche corner of the finance world, ESG investing has since exploded to become a major force on Wall Street _ and the latest front in the nation’s cultural schism

The Conversation

The American right has gone to war with 'woke capitalism' – here's what they get wrong

Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor and likely future presidential contender, has opened up a new front in his party’s war on “woke capitalism”. He is proposing to change the rules around how public bodies within Florida borrow from the markets by issuing bonds.

Fortune

Why are non-scientists leading the world’s largest companies’ sustainability efforts?

No multinational would pick a non-specialist to manage its treasury or legal compliance. Without scientific competence, the right questions won’t be asked.

Ballotpedia

Economy and Society, February 21, 2023: Will Congress block Biden’s ESG retirement plan rule?

Fortune

CEOs aren't abandoning their ESG plans

Companies are getting better at defining and explaining their policies.

Ballotpedia

Indiana lawmakers join ESG pushback

Members of the Indiana General Assembly’s House Financial Institutions Committee on February 2 passed a bill that would require the state to remove all pension funds from management by financial firms that support ESG or consider ESG criteria in investments:

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