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Behind the Money

How Republicans weaponised climate investing

Behind the Money

Topher Forhecz

Markets, Investing, News, Banking, Finance, Business, Business News, Crypto

4.4350 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

US Republicans are picking a fight with some major financial institutions over ESG, or environmental, social and governance investing. That means considering things such as climate risks, labour issues and board diversity when choosing investment funds. The FT’s corporate governance reporter Patrick Temple-West explains why Republicans are upset and what this backlash might mean for the future of ESG.


Clips from Fox News, CNBC


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For further reading:

US Republicans pull $1bn from BlackRock over ESG investing concerns

BlackRock: ESG tightrope is hard to navigate

Making funding flows fair: Must ESG be bad news for emerging markets?

Greenwashing faces fresh curbs in UK regulator’s crackdown


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On Twitter, follow Patrick Temple-West (@Temple_West) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07


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In the US, midterm elections are coming up in just a couple of weeks and ahead of those there's been this war of words popping up from Republicans in state capitals around the country.

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And we're not talking about abortion rights or gun control or immigration.

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We're talking about one acronym plucked straight from the world of

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finance. E. S. G. As in environmental, social, and governance investing.

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Republicans broadly have identified ESG environmental,

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social, and governance investing as a political issue. That's Patrick Temple West. He's the FT's corporate

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governance reporter. Now something that has been a small but growing segment of

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the financial sector a way to screen companies for

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potential risks, potential opportunities has become weaponized.

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