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Why Sustainability Investing May Be Retailing’s Crypto
Why Sustainability Investing May Be Retailing’s Crypto Unsplash It may seem like sustainability and ethical consumerism have been front-page news for a long time, but as a set of measurable corporate ...
Forbes Global 2000 Firms Judged ‘Alarmingly Weak’ On Climate Plans
Companies such as Exxon Mobil have climate pledges that might look good on paper – but with no plan … [+] to account for the emissions released when the firm’s gasoline is burned, th...
Dan Yergin Talks Oil, Gas, Putin, And Living His Book, ‘The New Map’
Dan Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global, during a Bloomberg Television interview on day three of the … [+] World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Photo...
What Retail Real Estate Owners Are Doing To Be Sustainable And Why It Matters
Solar panels on the roof of Kimco Realty’s Jericho Commons, a shopping mall in Jericho, NY Kimco Realty According to the United Nation’s 2021 Global Status Report for Building and Construction, ...
Cake DeFi Commits $1M to ESG Initiatives on Third Anniversary
June 7, 2022, marks Cake DeFi’s third anniversary. Reviewing its achievements, the Singapore-based financial technology platform noted that it has managed to record tremendous growth despite the beari...
The SEC Is Fed Up With ESG Greenwashing
It was a bad May for greenwashing. On the 31st, German police raided Deutsche Bank and its asset management group DWS over accusations that they fudged their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)...
What now for crypto as ESG called out as a scam?
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is billed as a powerful vehicle to create value, drive sustainability, and deliver a more equitable world. But behind the social justice warrior h...
What Tesla CEO Elon Musk gets wrong about ESG, according to Dave Nadig
The S&P benchmark environmental, social, and governance (ESG) index dropped Tesla (TSLA) recently, leading Elon Musk to tweet that ESG is a “scam.” But while Tesla has been a trailblaz...
ESG Study: Methane-Fueled Bitcoin Mining Can Eliminate 5.32% Of Global Emissions
It’s all about the methane. Finally, an ESG analyst takes a look at the data and gives bitcoin mining the praise it deserves. In the paper “Quantifying the Potential Impact of Bitcoin Mining on Global...
SEC unveils rules to prevent misleading claims by ESG funds
Gary Gensler, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, at the SEC headquarters in Washington, on July 22, 2021. Melissa Lyttle/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commiss...
Elon Musk called ESG a scam — did the Tesla chief do investors a favor?
Investing usually uses a combination of head, heart and gut even if it’s not supposed to. And perhaps no market theme stirs “all the feels” quite like ESG. This week, a major move to cut Tesla from a ...
These companies are using blockchain to improve ESG compliance for the mining industry
Sentient Equity Partners has joined the xx network to use its blockchain ecosystem to post its ESG compliance data in a public and transparent matter. As part of its efforts to increase transparency, ...
Musk Lashes Out At ESG As The Brand Starts To Lose Its Luster
BEIJING, CHINA – OCTOBER 23: (CHINA OUT) Elon Musk, Chairman, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla … [+] Motors, addresses a press conference to declare that the Tesla Motors releases v7.0 S...
Climate Change And Y2K, Elon Musk Calls ESG ‘A Scam’ And A Way To Beat Forever Chemicals
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Two digit dates had the potential to caus...
Tesla Is Being Booted From The ESG Index
Getty Images Key Takeaways Tesla was removed from the S&P 500 ESG Index Exxon is a leading company in the index, causing conflicts of interest Investors can still invest in clean tech with Q.ai’s ...
Bitcoin trades in $29K ‘no man’s land’ as Tesla ESG fallout routs stocks
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed $1,000 lower on May 19 after a grim trading session on Wall Street the day before slowed further upside. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Musk blasts ES...
Cathie Wood has a simple response to Tesla getting booted out of an S&P 500 ESG index: ‘Ridiculous’
Cathie Wood isn’t pleased about one of her most popular investments, Tesla Inc., being excluded from a prominent index that tracks eco- and socially friendly companies. “Ridiculous,” was essentially W...
Elon Musk Goes On The Attack After Tesla Cut From S&P ESG Index
Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala on May 2, 2022. Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Tesla, the world’s leading maker of electric vehicles, has been cut from S&P’s ESG Index created for envir...
Why Tesla was kicked out of the S&P 500’s ESG index
An aerial view of the Tesla Fremont Factory on May 13, 2020 in Fremont, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The S&P 500 booted electric vehicle maker Tesla from its ESG Index in an annual r...
Interview With The Former Finance Minister Of Ukraine
Ukrainian citizens fleeing the war arrive at the border in eastern Poland on February 27, 2022 … [+] (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images This is Part II of a th...
Alterra Energy Looks To Blow The Lid Off Plastics Recycling
Alterra has developed proprietary technology to economically recycle mixed plastics. Image courtesy Alterra Energy The world has a plastic waste problem. That’s probably not news to you. Standard recy...
The Hidden Power Of ESG
A summit of European Union (EU) leaders and focusing on globalisation and migration in 2017 in … [+] Brussels. (Photo credit should read STEPHANIE LECOCQ/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Imag...
‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini to Launch Tokenized Dollar Replacement — With Payment and ESG Features – Bitcoin News
Economist Nouriel Roubini, a crypto skeptic known as “Dr. Doom,” is developing a tokenized asset intended to be a more resilient U.S. dollar. “Our goal is to create a global store of value … This is s...
Will ESG Be Behind The Next Bullish Bitcoin Narrative?
It might be hard to find a bullish narrative for Bitcoin currently. The inflation hedge has plummeted during the worst inflation in 40 years. It hasn’t acted as a safe haven during war, a pandemic, or...
FCA Harps on ESG, Diversity as CISI Marks 30th Anniversary
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK financial industry watchdog, has emphasized the importance of embedding environmental, social, and governance (ESG) qualities as well as diversity into fi...
Bitcoin Mining Rigs Could Heat Vancouver Homes Next Year. Take That, ESG FUD
The city of Vancouver could soon take a step into the future. As New York is about to take the Chinese route and cut itself from yet another industry, Vancouver considers “using an unconventional meth...