06.17.2022

What are ESG scores, and why are so many advocates of liberty deeply concerned about them?

“Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores—a social credit framework for sustainability reporting—are being used as the primary mechanism to achieve the shift to a stakeholder model. They measure both financial and non-financial impacts of investments and companies and serve to formally institutionalize corporate social responsibility [including climate alarmism]. … In August 2019, The Business Roundtable (TBR)—comprised of 181 of the most powerful corporate executives in the United States—officially revised its conception of a corporation’s purpose to ‘promote an economy that serves all Americans’.”

Last updated here at the Heartland Institute on 12 April 2022 and make a submission to the US Securities and Exchange Commission here by 17 June 2022.

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