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By Arnd HEßELER, Wolfgang SCHLAFFER, Manuel HOBISCH and Tommaso CAVALLI, zeb consulting*
Fueled by increasing public activism for environmental sustainability as well as other social and governance related causes (water supply, children’s education in developing countries, etc.), the adoption of sustainability goals in everyday corporate culture has grown significantly in recent years and so has the adoption of environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles in global capital investments.
Despite the quick rise of this global phenomenon, various matters still need to be settled as regulators and the behavior of investors have not yet fully shaped the standards for ESG investing:
The market for ESG investment...
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