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Strengthening the ‘S’ in ESG: What New Developments in Human Rights and Business Bring to the Table for Investors

In: Responsible Investment Banking

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  • Margaret Wachenfeld

    (Institute for Human Rights and Business)

Abstract

Attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues is moving along a trajectory from being a niche topic of specialised investors to a conventional consideration among an increasingly wide range of mainstream investors. The S (social) factor has always been the junior partner in the triumvirate, lagging behind the increasingly systematic and formalised approaches to environmental and corporate governance issues. This is partly due to a perceived lack of clarity and standards, a vagueness surrounding what falls into the S pot and a lack of the hard edges of national corporate governance or environmental regulations. S issues have often been seen instead as something nice to have in the annual report. However, with the infusion of human rights into the S agenda, the S is changing, taking on a more defined shape along with some hard edges that are prompting businesses, and increasingly investors, to wake up and pay attention.

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  • Margaret Wachenfeld, 2015. "Strengthening the ‘S’ in ESG: What New Developments in Human Rights and Business Bring to the Table for Investors," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Karen Wendt (ed.), Responsible Investment Banking, edition 127, pages 217-234, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-10311-2_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10311-2_13
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