Research
General ESG
Environmental Pillar
- Earth Week Chronicles: Investor Engagement During Earth Week
- Earth Week Chronicles: Driving Sustainability in Business Practices
- Earth Week Chronicles: Nurturing Nature, Sustaining Life
- Environmental Impact of St. Patrick’s Day
- Revolutionizing Nature with NACs
- Navigating EPA Rules and Alternative Energies for Car Emissions
- The Nuclear Option
- The Perpetual Problem of Plastic Particle Permanence
- The Unexpected Intersection of Sustainability and Dividends
- An Objective Look at the EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Rule
- The Case for Ignoring Scope 3 Emissions
Governance Pillar
ESG Data & Reporting
ESG Regulatory Developments
ESG & Consumers
- Environmental Impact of Valentine’s Day
- Environmental Impact of the Super Bowl
- Exploring the Expanding World of NFTs: Art, Music, Gaming, and Beyond
- Fashion Industry Waste & Climate Change
- A Sustainable Halloween: Making Eco-Conscious Choices for a Greener Spooky Season
- ESG in the Music Industry
Investment Management
Technology
Podcast
General ESG
- Episode 123: Seasons Greetings
- Episode 119: Reasons OWL is Thankful
- Episode 111: CII 2023 Fall Conference Review
- Episode 104: Meet Conor Platt, CEO of Confluence Analytics
- Episode 103: Meet Andrew Kou
- Episode 102: Meet Ben Webster
- Episode 101: What Is “ESG” (…and why is it so controversial)?
Environmental Pillar
- Episode 124: A Deep (Scuba) Dive into Coral, featuring Dr. Helen Fox and Judy McNary
- Episode 108: The Nuclear Option
- Episode 107: The Perpetual Problem of Plastics
- Episode 105: The EPA Power Plant Rule
Social Pillar
Governance Pillar
ESG Data & Reporting
ESG Regulatory Developments
- Episode 113: Sames & Differents – Major ESG Regulatory Regimes
- Episode 112: EPA Rules, Reflections and Reverberations
ESG & Corporate Strategy
- Episode 121: Finpublica and the Future of ESG – with Adam Wasserman
- Episode 118: The Anatomy of a Corporate Sustainability Report – with Cris Banahan
- Episode 116: ESG as a Success Story – with Judy McNary
Investment Management
- Episode 125: ESG Data – From Metric to Factor, with Conor Platt – and the Magnificent 7 Stocks
- Episode 122: Don’t Feed the Clowns, with Dale Wannen
- Episode 120: Where ESG is Already Mainstream – with Liz Simmie
- Episode 106: The Unlikely Intersection of Sustainability and Dividends
Technology
Insights
General ESG
- Silos are for grain – E, S, and G are not separate issues
- Green Bonds – What They Do, and Evidence from Academia
- The Relationship Between ESG and Bonds – A Quick Tour
- Does ESG live in a “Material World”? (sorry, Madonna fans)
- Things To Know About ESG
- ESG Scores: Why Consensus-Based Scores Are the Best
- Greenwashing Litigation
- The Current State of ESG Maturity
- Cybersecurity and ESG: Think About It
- Misconceptions About ESG Investing
- ESG Case Study: Top 1000 Value Cap-Weighted, Filtered vs. Unfiltered
- The Natural History of ESG
- Does ESG Have an Image Problem?
- Our Favorite Owls
Environmental Pillar
- Earth Week Chronicles: Investor Engagement During Earth Week
- Earth Week Chronicles: Driving Sustainability in Business Practices
- Earth Week Chronicles: Nurturing Nature, Sustaining Life
- Environmental Impact of St. Patrick’s Day
- Revolutionizing Nature with NACs
- Biodiversity loss – fragile ecosystems, fragile economies
- Navigating EPA Rules and Alternative Energies for Car Emissions
- The Nuclear Option
- 1, 2, 3…4! What are Scope 4 Emissions?
- Sustainability and the Agriculture Industry – A Lot to Chew On
- Few Things Last Forever—Unfortunately, Plastic Comes Close
- Sustainable Water Management
- Shades of Green – Can a Firm Stance iImpede Pprogress?
- Food, Glorious Food – But Not When We Waste It
- Investing In Natural Capital
- Sustainability and the Circular Economy
- Reuse and Refill
- The Most Essential Kind of Diversity is Biodiversity
- Blockchain and ESG. Really.
- Innovative Financing to Boost Carbon Removal Tech
- Food Waste = Profit Waste | ESG Featured Key Issue
Social Pillar
- Employee Well-being and the Bottom Line
- Modern Slavery in the Corporate Arena
- Does Workplace Diversity Affect Business Success?
- The “S” in ESG
- Investing In Human Rights
- Impacting Change Through Socially Responsible Investing
- Sustainable Activism
Governance Pillar
- LEGAL-ESG 2023
- Is there a Chief Trust Officer in the C-Suite?
- Poor Governance – The Common Thread of the Corporate Blunders
- Data Security Crashes Without Good Governance
- The Importance of Governance, Risk, and Compliance: Why It Matters In ESG
- The Board and ESG Oversight
- ESG: Not Just for Hippies
ESG Data & Reporting
- Moving ESG from a Metric to a Factor
- The Short Report & ESG Signals
- What is an ESG Audit?
- ESG Data – Why Is This So Difficult?
- What is a “Good” CSR Report?
- Why Analyzing ESG Metrics Is So Complicated
- The Ivory Tower – With ESG Studies, the Devil’s in the (Data) Details
- Transparency Boosts Sustainability and the EU Leads the Way
- Alphabet Soup in the EU: PAI and DNSH in the SFDR
- KPMG’s 2022 Survey of Sustainability Reporting
- Making Sense of ESG Data with Machine Learning
- ESG Reporting Standards: Is This Really Necessary?
- Feedback on Proposed Sustainability Reporting Standards
- ESG Investing, the SEC, and Fat-Free Milk
- Tesla’s Removal Highlights Challenges of ESG Indices
- The Future of ESG Disclosures
ESG Regulatory Developments
ESG & Economics
- ESG Conflicts? What Would Adam Smith Say?
- Return on Sustainability Investing
- Good News for Companies that Embrace Sustainability
- Doing Well by Doing Good – The Triple Bottom Line
- 25 Reasons Sustainable Investing Makes Economic Sense
- Why Spending to Fight Climate Change Makes Economic Sense – A Non-political, Logical Analysis by a Famously Rational Guy
- People are Asking…Does “ESG” Actually Matter?
- The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the Just Transition
- Estimating the Economic Cost of Climate Change? Start with Data.
- ESG and Double Materiality
- The Misguided Backlash Against “Stakeholder Capitalism”
ESG & Corporate Strategy
- Is ESG Just Common Sense?
- It’s Not Hard to Find Good News About Sustainability
- Sustainability Joins the C-Suite
- Why Include ESG Goals in Executive Compensation?
- First Rate Ventures Announces Investment in OWL ESG
ESG & Consumers
- Environmental Impact of Valentine’s Day
- Environmental Impact of the Super Bowl
- Exploring the Expanding World of NFTs: Art, Music, Gaming, and Beyond
- Fashion Industry Waste & Climate Change
- A Sustainable Halloween: Making Eco-Conscious Choices for a Greener Spooky Season
- ESG in the Music Industry
- Sustainability and the Travel Industry – Think Before You Go
- Do Retail Customers Want More ESG in Their Shopping Carts?
- For Consumers Who Care About Sustainability, Do “Green” Labels Actually Mean Anything?
- Consumers Reduce, Reuse & Recycle; EPR Programs Get Producers Involved
- Customers Act Based on What They Like
Investment Management
- Taking ESG Investing Mainstream
- ESG Industry Owes Financial and Wealth Advisors an Apology
- Word Choices about Sustainability and More
- Wealth Management & ESG Disclosure Requirements
- Greenwashing, or Just a Misunderstanding?
- ESG and Private Equity – Part 2
- Do Investment Funds Need an Ingredients Label?
- Facts Versus Opinion: The Principles for Responsible Investment
- ESG and Private Equity Investing
- ESG in Emerging Markets – Applying a Suitable Lens
- 3 Rewarding Reasons To Consider ESG When Investing
- Steps To Improve Your ESG Performance
- Screening, Best-In-Class, Best-In-Progress or Integrated?
- Do Asset Managers Call the Shots in Sustainable Investing
- ESG and Wealth Management – Taking Off or Stalled?
- Can ESG Data Be Predictive of Total Returns?
- Identifying ESG Performance Risk
- ESG Case Study: Top 1000 Value, Adding a Filter
- Responsible Investing: At a Tipping Point?
- ESG Case Study: Top 1000 Value
- ESG Case Study: More Tinkering with the Top 1000
- ESG Case Study: Adding a Filter
- How Do We Know ESG Works? Let Us Show You.
- How Can an Individual Investor Get Started with ESG?
- Worried About Deregulation? Take the Reins with ESG
- Question of the Day: ESG & Exclusion
- Can You Afford to Ignore ESG?
- Investor Demand Drives Growth of Sustainable Investing
- ESG is Not an Investment Strategy
- Investing in Optimism with Long-Term Thinking: The Long Now
- New Investors Can Learn the Ropes Risk-Free
- How Can Families Invest Responsibly?
- Should We Divest?
- How do You Use ESG to Invest Wisely?
Other Financial Services
- 2RSquared and OWL ESG announce ESG Data Partnership
- Protecting Value-Creation in M&A: ESG and Due Diligence
- Net Zero Alliances in the Financial Sector
- ESG Signals That Work
Healthcare
- The Healthcare Sector – Taking Care of ESG Issues?
- The Pharmaceutical Industry is Prescribing More Sustainable Practices
Technology
- AI’s Environmental Impact: Balancing Innovation with Sustainability
- Sustainability and Technology – A Good Pairing
