ESG

abbreviation

1. environmental, social, and governance: a strategic framework for measuring a company's impact on the environment, relationships with the people and companies it is connected to, and management practices.

   The remaining question is whether ESG can be implemented without negatively impacting profit.

   Financial regulators have been promoting green finance and ESG investing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ESG¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

“Adding an ESG term can significantly increase fund inflows,” recent research by the European Securities and Markets Authority, or ESMA, found.

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ESG assets under management have swelled steadily on the fastest warming continent to $3 trillion, 85% of the global total, according to Morningstar.

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ESG means different things to different Europeans, putting it mildly, even after the European Commission’s 2021 Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, or SFDR.

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“The vast majority are light ESG and may adopt very different approaches,” says Pierre Garrault, senior policy advisor at the European Sustainable Investment Forum.

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The fundamental question of whether ESG investment pays off also remains without a conclusive answer, not least because the category itself is so loosely defined.

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