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"The ESG Brouhaha: Tempest in a Teacup,"

by CB Bhattacharya for The CBSuite

You’ve likely seen recent articles and tweets about corporate investors taking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics into consideration for their investment decisions, and how several politicians, business owners, and public figures are reacting.

From Elon Musk’s recent “ESG is a scam” tweet to former Vice President Mike Pence’s comments that ESG is politically driven, to the state of Texas barring local governments from doing business with banks that don’t support oil, gas and guns, the ESG space has become quite difficult to navigate. But why all this brouhaha?