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How Investor Activism Impacts Corporate ESG Policies

Increasingly, investors are looking beyond the term ESG to determine if companies embody their values, which often span across ESG's three pillars: environment, social, and governance. Legal analyst Abigail Gampher notes how companies, for example, may have once implemented environmental policies to satisfy value appraisals. However, investors are now seeking firms that address human displacement resulting from extreme weather as part of that same risk equation. The term ESG has become politically-charged, with both investors and regulators having varying perspectives on how environmental, social, and governance factors can impact a company's bottom line. If investors are dissatisfied, an activist may take stake in the company to enact change, according to Gampher. Since 2019, there has been a surge in investor activism campaigns primarily focused on governance, in addition to at least one other pillar. By coupling pillars, investors are trying to implement company policies that align with their value and ensuring the firm has a governance framework to support this cross-pillar agenda. Gampher offers a further insight into the ESG pillars and policies, SEC regulation, and litigation risks in her article: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloombe...