ESG Resources

[Ken Abbott]

Some of my students have asked about getting up-to-speed with ESG. Here's the general stuff. I will add subtopics.

GENERAL
What Is Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing?
What is ESG? An Environmental, Social and Governance Guide - Diligent Insights
ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)
Environmental, social, and corporate governance - Wikipedia
ESG 101: What is Environmental, Social and Governance?
ESG
https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Business Functions/Strategy and Corporate Finance/Our Insights/Five ways that ESG creates value/Five-ways-that-ESG-creates-value.ashx
What is environmental, social and governance (ESG)?
Environmental, Social And Governance: What Is ESG Investing?
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing | Investor.gov
What is ESG? Definition and meaning
How Environmentally Conscious Investing Became a Target of Conservatives
#1 What is ESG?
https://www.servicenow.com/products/risk-management/what-is-esg.html

SPECIFIC
E
Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures | TCFD)
SEC.gov | SEC Proposes Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors
What is the ISSB and why does it matter?
SASB

S
How social impact strategies advance ESG agendas
What is the “S” in ESG?
What Does the 'S' in ESG Mean? Explaining Social Criteria for Today's Businesses
Environmental Social Governance - What It Means For Sustainability

G
KPMG ESG
What is the “G” in ESG?
What is the G in ESG: Governance Explained | Vation Ventures Research
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Defining_the_G_in_ESG_2022.pdf

 

[Andy Nguyen]

This is great, Ken. I have a few practitioners who are looking to start discussion on this ESG as it is becoming more relevant to their quant work.
@Christian @Dimitri Vulis

 

[Dimitri Vulis]

Thank you, Ken!
More resources that I previously posted elsewhere:

Joseph J. Romm. Climate change - What Everyone Needs to Know.

Citigroup. Environmental and Social Policy Framework

UBS. Suni Harford. Investing in an ESG world - A practitioner’s guide

AQR. Clearing the Air: Responsible Investment

Jefferies. Reinventing “Value”. An Advanced ESG Primer

KPMG. Frontiers in Finance. Issue # 62 (May 2020)

“Honey, I Shrunk the ESG Alpha”: Risk-Adjusting ESG Portfolio Returns, Scientific Beta white paper, April 2021

Bob Litterman et al. Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System. Report of the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee, Market Risk Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

ISDA. Overview of ESG-related Derivatives Products and Transactions (January 2021)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global Warming of 1.5°C. Special Report, October 2018

Shmatov, Castelli. Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance

Thierry Roncalli. Handbook of Sustainable Finance

Risk.net ESG Strategies Special Report 2021