The Difficult Truth about ESG Investing

Moderated by David Rosenberg, Professor from the Center for Corporate Integrity at Zicklin School of Baruch College, this lecture focuses on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) elements on corporate finance.  The concept of ESG has been embraced widely by corporate investors and financial professionals as a way of more closely aligning capital markets with human values. In the lecture, Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business, speaks about corporate finance in relation to the climate change and its ethical implications of portfolio choices.