Are investors doing enough to encourage companies to report on ESG factors?

[Caryl]

From what I can see the SRI community seem to be getting some results in this area. More importantly though, ESG considerations seem to be becoming much more mainstream which will have to put more pressure on companies to report?

[Henry Maigurira]

There can never be enough of enough, the best practice on Environmental Governance is a global instituional development and progressive monitoring and evaluation of projects that do reporting on sustainable environment. Putting too much pressure on corporates will yield positive results but the ultimate hazard is being environmental extremists. Investors have a duty to and they must adhere to global bodies and agencies for standards and policy directives.

[Henry Maigurira]

"Dirty, sexy money : carbon is the hot new commodity, but can trading it like a currency really save the planet?"
IN: New scientist 198 (2652, 2008) : 38-41
Monte Carlo, February 2008. All the high rollers are in town, discussing the biggest bet of them all: that capitalism can save the planet and turn a profit at the same time. In a room near the famous old casino, bankers are talking to green technology companies hungry for cash. Just down the road, at a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) meeting, politicians from around the world are deliberating on how best to lure the financiers into staking their cash on a greener future. Welcome to the dynamic new world of carbon capitalism. On 1 January the Kyoto protocol's emissions targets came into full force, creating a long-anticipated market in permits to emit greenhouse gases. To service this marketplace a financial infrastructure of bankers and brokers has sprung up - and people are getting rich.
Sustainable development : premises, understanding and prospects"
IN: Sustainable development 16 (2, 2008) : 73-80
Humanity now finds itself at a ‘turning point’ and is looking for new visions of further development. One such vision is provided by the sustainable development concept, though this is understood in different ways. The conceptualizations of sustainable development within the worlds of politics and business still lie within the framework of the earlier paradigm of civilizational development. At the same time, the possibility of development being understood in a quite separate way is taking shape, and this may represent a starting point for a new vision of social development.
Douglas Paton
"Risk communication and natural hazard mitigation : how trust influences its effectiveness"
IN: International journal of global environmental issues 8 (1-2, 2008) : 2-16
In areas prone to natural hazards, a key goal of risk management is mitigating risk by encouraging people to adopt protective measures. Despite the efforts of civic emergency management agencies, the goal of ensuring the sustained adoption of these measures has proved elusive. This paper argues that one contributing factor has been a failure to accommodate the relationship among the complexity of hazards, peoples' lack of experience of them and the need to rely on others to acquire pertinent information within the risk communication process.
Douglas Paton
M. Siegrist
"Trust, confidence and cooperation model : a framework for understanding the relation between trust and Risk Perception"
IN: International journal of global environmental issues 8 (1-2, 2008) : 17-29
The nature of the relation between trust and Risk Perception (RP) has recently become a focus of increased interest among risk management researchers. Some argue that trust is strongly related to RP and that it therefore might prove to be a key to the development of more effective risk communication techniques. However, others claim that trust is weakly related, if at all, to RP and that it would be of little use to risk communicators and managers. A recent analysis of relevant empirical studies (Earle, Siegrist and Gutscher, 2007) supported neither the strong- nor the weak-relation argument. A wide variety of studies indicated, instead, that the relation between trust and RP is conditioned by certain critical contextual factors
"Too much trust in (social) trust? The importance of epistemic concerns and perceived antagonism"
IN: International journal of global environmental issues 8 (1-2, 2008) : 30-44
Social trust has often been claimed to be an important determinant of perceived risk, a finding that, if true, has important consequences for risk communication. However, the empirical basis of the alleged relationship between social trust and risk perception is weak. Previous work has pointed to other facets of trust as being more important: trust in science and technology per se (epistemic trust) as well as belief in the existence of opposed interest

[Jenna343]

As mentioned above, we hope that a deeper engagement with investors will help the Commission create a disclosure system to meet our needs for improved disclosure of climate risks and other material ESG issues.
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