En ny undersøgelse fra lobbyisme databasen InfluenceMap viser, at den amerikanske fossilindustri har spillet en betydelig rolle i fremme anti-ESG-bevægelsen i den offentlige debat. Den amerikanske fossilindustri har ifølge undersøgelsen lobbyet for at forbyde ESG i visse stater, og fortsætter med at støtte anti-ESG-bevægelsen.
Anti-ESG-bevægelsen har påvirket finansielle institutioner og klimapolitik, og har ført til, at visse finansielle institutioner har mindsket deres klimaambitioner. InfluenceMap konkluderer også, at trenden muligvis kan sprede sig uden for USA.
Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator fra Rhode Island, udtaler på baggrund af InfluenceMap fundene: “As I have been saying, and as this shows, the anti-ESG nonsense is fossil fuel ‘theater in the wild.’ It has actors, scripts, directors and producers, like a Broadway show; this one is just way, way, way off Broadway.”
Og tilføjer: “Nobody in finance went ‘woke’; what happened is that long-predicted climate threats became so real that fiduciaries had to report the risks. So the fossil fuel industry created the whole ‘woke ESG’ production to push against fiduciaries discharging due diligence obligations about the climate threat. These are not good people.”
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