Speech given by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England European Commission Conference: A global approach to sustainable finance, 21st March 2019 A New Horizon? A few years ago, …
Category: Stories & Ideas
Celebrating Kofi Annan’s Contributions to Business & Human Rights
By John G. Ruggie On September 13, 2018, I had the honor to attend the state funeral for Kofi Annan in Accra. The President of Ghana, in his eulogy, described …
The Remarkable Rise of ESG
By Georg Kell, Chairman of Arabesque and Founding Executive Director of the UN Global Compact 20 August, 2018 Responsible investing is widely understood as the integration of environmental, social and …
In Memory of Kofi Annan: Father of the Modern Corporate Sustainability Movement
By Georg Kell, Chairman of Arabesque and Founding Executive Director of the UN Global Compact 20 August, 2018 A great son of Africa and a true global leader has passed …
The Case for Corporate Statesmanship
By Martin Reeves, Georg Kell and Fabien Hassan In 2014, CVS Health, a major US retail pharmacy chain, stopped selling tobacco products in all of their stores, in spite of …
Active investing v.2.0
By Gabriel Karageorgiou and George Serafeim 28 November, 2017 Nobel laureate Bob Dylan’s lyrics from his 1964 release “The Times They Are a-Changin’ ” are words every business leader should keep …
What the UNEP FI has achieved in 25 years
The United Nations is often perceived as an outdated bureaucracy, but UNEP’s Finance Initiative has had impact over the last 25 years. Image: Linh Do, CC BY 2.0 Defying sceptics, the …
Big data and ESG: Two megatrends shaping asset management
This article originally appeared in CommerzBank’s Thinking Ahead Magazine’s September Issue. Today, we live in a globalised and digitised world where information is generated and flows at unprecedented levels. Consider …
“It’s the performance, stupid!” – Interview with Andreas Feiner
This interview originally appeared in the Scope Analysis September Newsletter. There are many sides to sustainability. Some people think there are too many. But sustainability won’t be disappearing from the …
What Mark Zuckerberg Understands About Corporate Purpose
Last week Mark Zuckerberg published a strong defense of both globalization and Facebook’s business model. In a nearly 6,000-word letter, he argued persuasively that Facebook thrives under a globalized socioeconomic system, …