Raconteur：2021年可持续投资报告（英文版）（12页）.pdf

1、more difficult for private sector retire-ment plan fiduciaries to integrate ESG factors into their investment actions,” says Heather Slavkin Corzo, head of US policy at the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.Since taking office, Biden has issued a string of executive orders on emis

2、sions and conservation, halting construction of the US-Canada Keystone XL pipeline, and suspending new oil and gas permits on public land. On financial regulation, Biden has been busy too. Trumps ESG-stymying pension fund policy looks set for the scrapheap and plans to require boardroom transparency

3、 on environmental risks are in motion. Globally, the president has been equally quick off the mark. Within hours of his inau-guration, Americas commitment to the Paris Agreement had been reinstated, consistent with Bidens pledge to achieve carbon neu-trality by 2050. His attendance at this years piv

4、otal COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow is all but certain and there are plans for a US-hosted precursor summit in April.Yet, domestically, the president has a fight on his hands. “The system is polar-ised in America. There are people who still dont accept that climate change is real,” expla

5、ins Slavkin Corzo. “Im afraid there will be people who question the need to move the US economy in a more sustain-able direction. But we cant allow those questions to stifle progress.”With surprise majorities in both the House of Representatives and Senate a result of unexpected Democratic gains in

6、Georgia last month Biden is confident about driving progress. For ESG businesses worldwide, thats good news. Environmental services and technology company Water Intelligence is feeling the glow of sustainable investment. Offering technological solutions to water wastage, an issue of acute environmen