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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 02:23:06 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Corporations Want Government-Funded Lobbyists
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/corporations-lobbying-sec-esg-shareholder-rights
* GOP pushing 2 anti-ESG bills to combat woke investing
* install taxpayer-funded corporate lobbyists in SEC
* conservative wish f. Project 2025 playbook
... would also:
roll back shareholder rights
make it easier for companies to hide financial risks rel. to climate change
restrict local governments f. investing pension funds as they deem necessary
ESG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_governance
#corporations #Project2025 #libertarianism
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2. Environmental, social, and governance
  
  Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is shorthand for an investing principle that prioritizes environmental issues, social issues, and corporate governance. Investing with ESG considerations is sometimes referred to as responsible investing or, in more proactive cases, impact investing. The term ESG first came to prominence in a 2004 report titled "Who Cares Wins", which was a joint initiative of financial institutions at the invitation of the United Nations (UN). By 2023, the ESG movement had grown from a UN corporate social responsibility initiative into a global phenomenon representing more than US$30 trillion in assets...

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