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ESG InFocus
August, 2020
 
 
 
Sign up to our monthly ESG InFocus newsletter to access the top stories, research events, and webinars from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The below newsletter provides a flavor of some of the sectors and asset classes we cover.

 
Accelerate Your ESG Journey
 
 
Resource scarcity, climate change and population dynamics continuously shape a corporation’s competitive environment. Essential ESG data and insights can help you assess these challenges and build strategies to succeed in the transition to a sustainable future.

Find out what solutions may help you to accelerate your ESG data and analytics integration journey.
 
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Latest Research & Insights
 
 
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ESG vs. broader high yield – assessing profiles & returns
How do three recently launched high-yield environmental, social and governance indexes diverge from the standard high-yield benchmark in ratings mix, term risk, spread and energy concentration? Find out more in this blog where we examine these divergences and consider them as we conduct a relative return analysis, looking at ESG versus the overall high-yield sector.

 
 
 
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The EU Recovery Plan Could Create Its Own Green Safe Asset
The EU could become the main liquidity provider for a green safe asset if it carries out a proposal to finance 30% (€225 billion) of its planned €750 billion recovery fund through green bond issuance, says S&P Global Ratings.

 
 
 
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Why Corporations' Responses To George Floyd Protests Matter
In this, the first report of a two-part series on racial inequality in the corporate world, S&P Global Ratings explore how protests
surrounding the death of George Floyd in the U.S. prompted an unprecedented global corporate response.

 
 
 
Top Stories: Environmental
 
 
Dominion to fuel growth with clean energy after abandoning $8B pipeline
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Clean-energy optimism soars as world struggles with the pandemic's fallout
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5G networks better positioned to weather extreme storms – experts
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Top Stories: Social
 
 
Public focus on equality opens doors for some Black-owned banks
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Big tech's pause on facial recognition not likely to blunt deployment
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Facial recognition tech tests the limits of Europe's data privacy laws
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Top Stories: Governance
 
 
Japanese companies mull local standards on sustainable investing, disclosure
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CEO-led sustainability group worries Labor Department rule may hurt ESG movement
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BlackRock voted against management at 53 companies over climate concerns
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Podcasts
 
 
Listen to our ESG Insider podcast miniseries where we talked to the sustainability heads at some of the largest banks in the U.S., Europe and Asia about how they are adapting their ESG strategies amid COVID-19.

European banks sharpen ESG focus as COVID-19 highlights risk >

COVID-19 shows many ESG agendas have 'forgotten about the people >

How the biggest US bank is adapting its ESG approach amid COVID, racism >

 
 
 
Essential ESG Intelligence
 
 
I Need To Integrate ESG 

Resource scarcity, climate change and population dynamics continuously shape a corporation’s competitive environment. Get the ESG analysis you need to assess these challenges and build strategies to succeed in the transition to a sustainable future. Find out more > 

I Need To Maximize Positive Impact
 

Our Essential Positive Impact Analytics provide mission critical insight to maximize the positive impact of corporations and financial intuitions through the universal lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Find out more >

I Need Insights To Manage Climate Risk

Our Essential Climate Analytics set the bar on climate intelligence. With a uniquely deep and comprehensive lens on rapidly evolving climate risks, our datasets and analytics provide insights to turn climate risk into climate opportunity. Find out more >
 
 
 
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