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Sustainability Now — 336 episodes
Sustainable Finance Summit, Part 4: Rheia Khalaf and Harlan Tufford
Sustainable Finance Summit, Part 3: Matthew Lawton and Rik Logtenberg
Sustainable Finance Summit Pt. 2: Eric Usher and Brian Kernohan
Sustainable Finance Summit Pt.1: Sarah Kapnick and John E. Morton
Hormuz and the Fertilizer Fault Line
BP’s AGM Was Contentious: This Proxy Season Could Be Too
Is This How Oil Ends?
Are Investors Missing Biodiversity Risk?
Pricing the Unpredictable
Transition Risk vs. Temperature Alignment: What Really Drives Fund Outcomes?
From Cloud to Kill Chain
Don’t Build a Stadium There!
Sustainability: From Narrative to Fundamentals
Cyberattack in Aisle Three
Carbon Markets Seem Static. Prices Don't.
How to Manage Human Rights Risks
REPLAY: The Sustainability & Climate Trends to Watch for 2026
The Sustainability & Climate Trends to Watch for 2026
Did the EU Fix SFDR
When Scandals Are Market Signals
Your Guidebook to a Bumpy Energy Transition
The Choice Between Data Centers and Carbon Emissions
The Next Frontier of Sustainability: Measuring Biodiversity Risk
Before the Storm Hits
Paying the Price: Climate Costs Outpace Corporate Preparedness
When Climate Hazards Collide
How Company Ownership Shapes Performance
Sustainability Matters in the Bond Market
What Sustainability Reporting Really Looks Like in 2025
What Flood Maps Miss
Sustainability and Fundamentals: 12 Years On
Energy in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Making Food Healthier
From Targets to Tactics: How We’re Scoring the Energy Transition
An Update on the Carbon Credit Markets
A Breakthrough in the Fight Against Superbugs
Adapting to a Hotter Future in Asia
Aerospace, Defense and Tariff Turbulence
The Physical Risks of Reshoring
Borderline Traceable: Tariffs Meet the Transparency Test
In Times of Crisis, Sustainability Matters
Can Bombs and Bullets Be Sustainable?
It's the Egg-conomy, Stupid
EU's Omnibus Proposal: What You Need to Know
Are Banks Ready for Climate Risks?
Crude Awakenings: The Shifting Energy Landscape
How to Make Money and Not Lose Money (Historically)
Demystifying Climate Scenarios
Where is the Next Fire?
High Rollers or Higher Risks? Gambling Goes Digital
The Sustainability and Climate Trends to Watch for 2025
The First Ever (Public) Price Forecast for Airline's Carbon Credits
What the Market Thinks: A Climate Risk Survey
Powering AI: The Nuclear Option
The World Electric Vehicles May Create
Finally! A Global Carbon Market!
A/Cs and Adapting to Climate Change
Does the Environmental Pillar Matter?
So, About That Climate Transition...
Asset Risks in a Time of Flood
The 2024 Proxy Season
Investing in the Fight Against Superbugs
Net-Zero Tracker 2024
Does Social Matter?
The Cost of Missing Sustainability Targets
Does Governance Matter?
Sustainability and the Cost of Capital
How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Nuclear Energy
What is Impact Materiality?
Carbon Footprinting Demystified
A Cheat Sheet on Climate Funds
Stop! In The Name Of Sustainability Funds (i.e., ESMA’s New Guidelines)
Can Airlines Go Green?
Spirits of Change: Alcohol in a Dry World
AI is Diagnosing and Texas is Burning
Pondering Peak Emissions in China
Does Your Board Need a Climate Superstar?
Children are still in the Cocoa Field
Unwrapping the Green Claims of Plastic Packaging
The SEC Tests out the Climate
Women on Boards and Beyond!
ExxonMobil's Legal Parry
The Luxury of Love
Cyber Catastrophe Bonds... Wait, What?
The Audit World on Fire
Going on a Boeing?
Biodiversity 101
Carbon Credits in 2024
The Sustainability and Climate Trends to Watch for 2024
Utilities Lean into Adaptation Bonds
On the Ground at COP 28
(Bottled) Water, Water Everywhere
The Future for Oil and Gas Producers
The Retail's Doctor Will See You Now
The Five Stories of ESG: A Recap Episode
An Homage to Claudia Goldin (Gender Pay Gap)
California Dreamin’ About Climate Disclosures
Tilting at Wind Turbines
United Auto Workers of ESG
El Nino Arrives and Debt Thrives
Textile Waste and Travelling Skirts
Is European Sustainable Finance Green?
There's AI in My Boardroom
The Fight Between Food and Forests
A Turbulent Plan for Green Aviation
Big Tech is Knock Knock Knockin’ on the GDPR’s Door
It’s too Damn Hot for Investors
The EU Wants Companies To Care More About Human Rights
Are Shareholders Turning Against ESG?
Semiconductors aren't green?!
California Gets Harder To Insure and the NZIA Gets Smaller
Green Buildings: Beam Me Up!
Tracking our climate goals and next steps
BNP’s “Duty of Care” and a Lonely Start for Germany’s Female Execs
Solar, So Hot Right Now
Blastin’ E[sg]-Cigs and the EPA
We Should Be Paying More Attention to Air Pollution
The Shrinking Colorado River
Diet ESG
Was SVB All About That ESG?
Climate Infuses Proxy Strategy and South Korea Ponders 69-Hour Work Week
ESG Is Becoming Polarized – It Doesn’t Need To Be
Bribing Olympic Committees and Tracing Ben & Jerry’s Supply Chain
The ESG of a Train’s Toxic Plume
The Labor of ESG
What ESG Tells Us About Adani
The Fed Mulls Climate Risk and Swifties Sue Live Nation
The Conflict Within ESG
Do Record Profits Change Oil?
CRISPR Comes to ESG
COP-erating on Biodiversity Loss
ESG Trends to Watch for 2023
COPacetic in Egypt and Methane is a Low-Hanging Fruit
Bribery – Where ESG Risk and Externality Collide
Medicine, Chocolate and the ESG Data-verse
The Enigma of Tesla's ESG and Santos Pipeline Hits a Snag
Everyone Hates ESG
What To Do When Your Executive Bites Someone and Hurricanes
Aquaculture’s Rise and Electric Snowmobiles
NYC Climate Week: Energy Transition and Climate Adaptation Panel
Railroad Strikes and How Institutions Go Net Zero
It's Electric!
River Evaporation and Semiconductor Dominance
Low-carbon Lithium and Green Homes
The Inflation Reduction Act: What the massive bill means for the energy sector and carbon emissions
Labor Ignores and La Nina Threatens
A Pioneer of Corporate Governance Retires
Concentrating Ownership
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and the US Supreme Court
The Birds and Bees and the ESG
Windy ESG Labels
Carbon Markets 101
Cannon-Brookes Brokers a Deal with AGL
Baby Formula Crisis and Australia Goes Green
In the Gold Mines of CEO Pay
McDonald’s Pigs and the SEC’s ESG
Abortion Pills and the Climate of Bonds
The Long and Shorting of ESG
Resignations and a Looming Crisis in China
Unions & ESG and the IPCC Climate Report
Governance and War and Boeing’s Deja Vu
Coal Expansion and SEC's Big Climate Move
War and ESG
Children in the Cocoa Fields
ESG and the Invasion of Ukraine
Nord Stream 2 and Vaccines for Everyone
Europe’s Dependence on Russian Gas and Online Gambling
Financed Emissions and the Wild World of EV Start-Ups
Sustainable Gas and Assault at Rio Tinto
Labor Strikes and Labor Rights
Forget Naughty or Nice – Santa’s Workshops are Flooding
Are Carbon Markets Useful?
Antibiotic Resistance and What is ESG?
We Need Miners and Cheap Drugs
Twitter’s CEO Resigns
The ESG Weekly: The World Gets Into the Spirit of COP-eration and Energy Prices Be Crazy
The ESG Weekly: The US Infrastructure Deal
The ESG Weekly: Deforestation and Coal Death at COP26
The ESG Weekly: Deforestation and Coal Death at COP26
The ESG Weekly: Emission Talks at COP 26 and Hertz Buys a Tesla
The ESG Weekly: Selling a Portfolio's Carbon and Facebook's Oversight Board
The ESG Weekly: Biodiversity Comes to Kunming and Taiwan’s Semiconductors are Thirsty
The ESG Weekly: Our Only Cryptocurrency Episode
The ESG Weekly: Climatepalooza Pt. 2
The ESG Weekly: Climatepalooza Pt. 1
The ESG Weekly: Say on Climate and Deluge in the Delta
The ESG Weekly: Non‐Profits Sue VW and China Talks Big
The ESG Weekly: China Bans Gaming
The ESG Weekly: Green Marine and German Diversity
The ESG Weekly: BHP Eschews Oil for Farming
The ESG Weekly: Riding Rail Through the Floods and an Ex–con Back in the Saddle at Samsung
The ESG Weekly: Vaccine Mandates and Walmart's Insulin
The ESG Weekly: China's Education Company Crackdown and Harassment at Activision
The ESG Weekly: Methane Emissions and Devastating Floods
BONUS EPISODE: Linda at the G20 International Conference on Climate in Venice
The ESG Weekly: It's Scorching in Seattle and Overdraft Fees are SO 2020
The ESG Weekly: APAC is Better at ESG and EVs Aren't Enough
The ESG Weekly: The SEC Welcomes Climate Disclosures and Wrongdoing at Toshiba
The ESG Weekly: Mines Need Biodiversity and HSBC's Legal Carbon Reduction Requirement
The ESG Weekly: No Change for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The ESG Weekly: ExxonMobil Loses Two Board Seats
The ESG Weekly: Telecoms in Myanmar and Powerships in South Africa
The ESG Weekly: Modern Slavery and Native Americans & Mining
The ESG Weekly: SPECIAL Proxy Season Episode
The ESG Weekly: India's COVID‐19 Maelstrom and the Fine Print of NDCs
The ESG Weekly BONUS: Still waiting for ESG to strut its stuff at the earnings call? 2021 may be a turning point
The ESG Weekly: Earth Day For the Capital Markets and China
The ESG Weekly: A Union at Amazon and France Bans Flights
The ESG Weekly: Opioids Rage During COVID‐19 and Politics in Georgia
The ESG Weekly: The ESG of Marine Shipping and Shadow Investing
The ESG Weekly: Hydrogen and Heavy Industry
The ESG Weekly: Online Education in China and Antibiotics in Fast Food
The ESG Weekly: Women Reduce Emissions and Voices from Home
The ESG Weekly: The Pay is Very High and Oil Spills on Rigs
The ESG Weekly: Sustainability‐Linked Bonds Hit the Scene and Amazon Gets a New Executive Chair
The ESG Weekly: Energy Grid Resiliency and GM's EV Push
The ESG Weekly: National interests trump shareholders as French government blocks Carrefour acquisition and Exxon inches forward on climate
The ESG Weekly: Nuclear is Back in Japan and Apple v Facebook
The ESG Weekly: Another Larry Fink Letter and Market Concentration
The ESG Weekly: Disenfranchised Shareholders and ESG at Banks
The ESG Weekly: Vaccine Distribution and Arctic Oil Sales
Holiday Special: Santa's daunting carbon footprint, everlasting energy for Hannukah and an inspirational new food lands just in time for Kwanzaa
The ESG Weekly: Water Futures and Diversity at Nasdaq
The ESG Weekly: Investors are Mad at Exxon, and Execs are Mad at Shell
The ESG Weekly: COVID‐19 vaccines peer out the lab door at the big, wide world and worker wellbeing gets squeezed in competitive South Korean logistics market
The ESG Weekly: Facebook and The Downgrade
The ESG Weekly: Joe Biden and the Climate
The ESG Weekly: Leadership and Interconnectivity
The ESG Weekly: Roundtable with Companies on Diversity, and the DOJ's Lawsuit Against Google
A zombie in the boardroom? Putting the 'spooky' back in ESG
The ESG Weekly: Health care and unemployment, and the largest COVID bond ever
The ESG Weekly: Pandemics breed contradictions, and racial diversity data during proxy season
The ESG Weekly: Japan is not counting votes, and GE gets served
The ESG Weekly: Biodiversity Risks, and the Largest IPO Ever
The ESG Weekly: The carbon plans of tech, and the FinCEN Files
ESG Spotlight: Climate Scenario Analysis in the Financial Sector
The ESG Weekly: The Business of Disaster, and Apple's E‐Waste Problem
The ESG Weekly: COVID‐19 pushes the world into an awkward middle ground, and we revisit the quandary of fake news
The ESG Weekly: Hurricane Laura wreaks havoc, Rio Tinto atones for damaging aboriginal heritage site and Microsoft mulls Tik Tok acquisition
How human capital and corporate culture have evolved due to COVID‐19
The ESG Weekly: Uber and Lyft drivers are now employees, and McDonald's sues it former CEO
The ESG Weekly: Companies say HVAC systems are the answer to COVID‐19, and social bonds overtake green bonds
The ESG Weekly: We can measure a country's ESG risk, and Nike fires its diversity chief
The ESG Weekly: Airlines are bailed out by ESG, and people are sanctioned with companies
The ESG Weekly: Rewarding CEOs for being good, and immigrants develop a lot of our technology
The ESG Weekly: Pipelines are OVER; and are drug prices too high?
The ESG Weekly: The importance of scope 3 emissions and the Facebook boycott
The ESG Weekly: Wirecard collapse exposes lack of proper governance
The ESG Weekly: As Norilsk counts the cost of a diesel spill in the arctic, thawing permafrost sounds a cautionary tale
The ESG Weekly: Racial diversity data, contractor safety at construction companies during COVID‐19
ESG Spotlight: Looking at externally managed companies through a freshly polished lens
The ESG Weekly: Twitter curates content but Facebook does not, there are some companies cutting carbon
The ESG Weekly: Dam failure floods a Dow Chemical complex threatening toxic sites, the physical risk of climate change
The ESG Weekly: The ESG of vaccines, and shareholders say JPM must talk climate
The ESG Weekly: Safety at airports, biofuel bailouts, and EU Taxonomy
ESG Spotlight: Oil, gas, and the small matter of an energy transition
The ESG Weekly: Medical tourism and meat‐packers take a COVID‐19‐sized hit and warning bells ring over deforestation pledges
The ESG Weekly: Investors are worrying about the wrong workplace safety measures, green buildings are healthier during pandemics, and what it is like to be in China right now
The ESG Weekly: Banks and recessions, Bayer calls a virtual meeting, and COVID‐19 is spreading in Japan
ESG Spotlight: Understanding indexes and ESG as COVID‐19 tightens the screws
The ESG Weekly: COVID‐19 in private prisons, companies troubled in France, and investor sentiments on COVID
The ESG Weekly: Carbon emissions and pandemics, then we discuss how drugs are rushed forward
Re-valuing real estate: investing in the eye of the hurricane
The ESG Weekly: How are companies considering ESG factors during the coronavirus pandemic?
The ESG Weekly: Can bonds save us from the coronavirus? And old folks on boards
The ESG Weekly: Industries look to survive, adapt or capitalize as the Coronavirus marches on
The ESG Weekly: COVID‐2019 is a bellwether for investors on structural risks in companies, and the oil price wars get weirder
The ESG Weekly: Drug shortages and the coronavirus, from whence your drugs came
The ESG Weekly: The victims of Camp Fire 2018 are now owners of PG&E, the company that caused the wildfires.
The ESG Weekly: BP is going green and Japan decides the more coal the better for the week of February 17.
The ESG Weekly: Does the 2019 Novel Coronavirus have any place in an ESG conversation? And the EU doubts the use of ESG ratings for the week of February 10.
The ESG Weekly: Stakeholders are not happy about Siemens' coal by association for the week of February 3.
The ESG Weekly: Companies cannot please everyone, and how are tech companies and oil companies connected for the week of January 27.
The ESG Weekly: Indigenous inclusion and carbon offsets can go hand-in-hand, for the week of January 20.
The ESG Weekly: Investors and world leaders are finally freaking out about the climate crisis, and a new regulation in California might change how big tech can use consumer data, all for the week of January 13.
The ESG Weekly: Wildfire in Australia poses problems for all, and a quick take on how we learned to stop worrying and love social media for the 2020 election, all for the January 6.
The ESG Weekly: Diversity data matters more for investors than financial metrics can show, and Ric Marshall gives a hot take on the decision by Boeing to halt production of the 737 Max for the week of December 16.
The ESG Weekly: Carbon emissions keep rising for EU automakers as people continue to buy SUVs, and two hot takes on Drax's net-negative carbon plan and Exxon's technical exoneration for the week of December 9.
Is Hacking Just An Evil Supervillain Trope, Or Something Investors Should Be Prepared For?
The ESG Weekly: As the precarious work arrangements grow, investors might need to look at how companies control a workforce they don't claim as their own, and then two hot takes on Google's shakeup and coal's uninsurability for the week of December 2.
The ESG Weekly: Should investors care about antibiotic resistance? And only a handful of companies are preventing a deforestation‐free supply chain for the week of November 18.
The ESG Weekly: Are wild and crazy founders really such a big deal for investors? And the streaming race is on for the week of November 11.
The ESG Weekly: The SEC is putting a gag order onto shareholders, and two spicy takes on Boeing and Saudi Aramco for the week of November 4.
The Most Important Thing An Investor Should Know About Private Prisons: Who Do They Care About?
The ESG Weekly: The case against Exxon might change how companies disclose about their climate woes, and the seas are rising up to consume us all for the week of October 28.
The ESG Weekly: How should shareholders deal with Zuckerberg ? And Intel plans to release gender and race pay data for the week of October 21.
The ESG Weekly: South Africa's largest utility cannot abide, and a quick update on private prisons for the Week of October 14.
The ESG Weekly: Companies are Hard to Trust When They Lie, And Labor Shortages Cause Concern for the Week of October 7.
The ESG Weekly: The Bosses Are Getting Too Much For Too Little, and Climate Change Is Coming For Your Real Estate for the Week of September 30
The ESG Weekly: Which shareholder action tool is best? And Thomas Cook collapses into liquidation for the Week of September 23
The gig economy has split the workforce
The ESG Weekly: UAW Union Strikes at GM, and Australia Picks Health Over Coal for the Week of September 16
The ESG Weekly: EDF Finds Faults in its Nuclear Plants, and Contract Workers are Employees for the Week of September 9
The ESG Weekly: Data privacy and advertising don't mix, and glyphosate is banned again for the Week of September 2
The ESG Weekly: Johnson & Johnson's Brand and Opioids, and the Fashion Industry Makes Another Coalition for the Week of August 26
The ESG Weekly: Singapore will track societal health with Fitbit, and shareholders no longer matter for the Week of August 19
The hidden cost of cement
The ESG Weekly: Plastics and Fossil Fuel get more cozy, and two rapid fire takes on WeWork and disclosures for the Week of August 12
The ESG Weekly: Walmart's CEO gets called out in the gun debate, and L Brands' CMO resigns amid company turmoil on the Week of August 5
The ESG Weekly: Capital One: Who's in your wallet? And NGOs call Cargill the worst company in the world on the Week of July 29
The ESG Weekly: Equifax is fined a record USD$800 million after its 2017 data breach, and subprime auto loans area threaten both the auto industry and drivers on the Week of July 22
The ESG Weekly: Water is Bigger in Texas and My Brand, My Ideology on the Week of July 15
The ESG Weekly: Vedanta is a Mine Short and Direct Listing is the New Black on the Week of July 8
The ESG Weekly: Tesla Delivers Cars and Wayfair's Labor Problem on the Week of July 1
The ESG Weekly: San Fran's E-Cigarette Ban and Chicken Collusion on the Week of June 25
Tomorrow's Labor Solution Is... Unions?
The ESG Weekly: Facebook's Libra and the Trans Mountain Pipeline on the Week of June 17
The ESG Weekly: Raytheon/UTC and Ocado's Vertical Farm Play on the Week of June 10
The ESG Weekly: Corruption in China and Health Care Equipment on the Week of June 3
The ESG Weekly: Renault/Fiat and Malaysia Just Says "No" to Your Recycling on the Week of May 27
The ESG Weekly: McDonald's #MeToo moment and Overstock.com's Bitcoin play on the Week of May 20
The ESG Weekly: Is There an ESG Angle on Trade Wars, and Amazon's Four-Legged Stool on the Week of May 13
The ESG Weekly: Is It Disruption Week? Swine Fever and iBuying on the Week of May 6
The ESG Weekly: Norsk Hydro's NASA Fraud and Marriot Goes Gig Economy on the Week of April 29
The Problems with ESG
The ESG Weekly: Umicore and the Cobalt Problem on the Week of April 22
The ESG Weekly: Amazon Employees Form a (Shareholder) Union and Jack Ma's 996 Blessing on the Week of April 15
The ESG Weekly: Disclosure is the Thing for Saudi Aramco and Social Media Becoming Tobacco on the Week of April 10
The ESG Weekly: Im(possible?) Burgers and Wells Fargo CEO Search on the Week of April 1
The ESG Weekly: McDonald's AI play and Purdue settles on the Week of March 25
The ESG Weekly: Paul Ryan and Robots on the Week of March 17
Leadership Crisis, or Crisis in Influence?
The ESG Weekly: Boeing and Ride Shares on the Week of March 10
The ESG Weekly: Nordea and Toilet Paper on Week of March 3
Who Pays For Corruption?
The Power of Peer Pressure on Pay
Halloween is a Time for Zombies, Ghosts, and Frankenstein
A Short History of ESG: Part II
A Short History of ESG: Part I
Join the Gang: Climate Edition
The Privacy of Things
When Genius Meets Governance
Back to School Special: Student Debt, Consumer Finance, and Robots
Indra Nooyi, and Why Diversity of Management Matters
Where should we even start? 2018 ESG Trends redux
Welcome to the MSCI ESG Research Podcast, ESG Now