ESNG - The Ascent Of Green Bonds
By J. Patrick Bradley
Introduction
Across the global economy, Environmental, Social, and Governance ((ESG)) factors are becoming more important and better integrated into the activities of governments, investment managers, plan sponsors, consultants, and industry. I've written on this topic earlier, most recently in Reflections on Meetings in Washington, D.C. In that post, I wrote about the growing attention leveled on ESG factors and, specifically, the acute awareness that environment and climate risks are receiving from both governments and companies. There are growing initiatives to arrest environmental deterioration; however, addressing these forces creates a cost. Increasingly,