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IMPACT ENTREPRENEUR Tomorrow! Defending ESG from the Trolls with Stephanie Cohn Rupp (March 23, 2023) Original article: Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | ||
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Tomorrow! Defending ESG from the Trolls with Stephanie Cohn Rupp (March 23, 2023)
Impact Entrepreneur March 22nd 2023 ... 12:00 PM Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) and the impact investing industry has recently been subjected to a barrage of verbal attacks and state bans. A Florida law passed in 2022, for example, currently prevents the state’s pension funds managers from considering ESG criteria. A host of politicians, including former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Rick Desantis have publicly trolled ESG as “woke capitalism.” Despite the attacks, demand for ESG investing has become a dominant force that markets cannot ignore. In their annual Report on US Sustainable Investing Trends, the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing, known as US SIF, calculated sustainable investment assets under management to be $8.4 trillion in 2022. Growing numbers of investors are seeking sustainable investment opportunities that integrate environmental, social, and governance factors, despite the efforts of divisive trolls who often seem to be attacking ESG for their own political gain. Stephanie Cohn Rupp, a Board Director at US SIF who has spent the last two decades of her career focused on economic development, global Impact, and ESG investing, thinks that these attacks demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of ESG and ignorance of the potential risks for investors and politicians who dismiss it. Cohn Rupp has been working to get out the message that ESG is not an ideology, it is a lens applied to investment due diligence that integrates real world impacts. In this live fireside chat and audience Q&A, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Stephanie Cohn Rupp, CEO of Veris Wealth Partners – a wealth management firm founded with a 100% focus on impact and ESG investing – for a discussion about the realities of ESG and how each of us can help defend ESG from the trolls. Event Logo Thursday, March 23, 2023 12:00 PM Defending ESG from the Trolls with Stephanie Cohn Rupp Register Event Logo Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 PM Using Integrated Capital to Build Community Wealth and Power Register Discover More Events
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