Screen LibraryThe race to zero : how ESG investing will crater the global financial system /
"Over the past few years, so-called "sustainable investing"--a new practice based on the theory that environmental, social, and governance (or "ESG") factors should drive corporate policy and investment decisions--has swept across Wall Street. Spurred on by the United Nation...
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Encounter Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First American edition. |
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"Over the past few years, so-called "sustainable investing"--a new practice based on the theory that environmental, social, and governance (or "ESG") factors should drive corporate policy and investment decisions--has swept across Wall Street. Spurred on by the United Nations, national governments, and financial regulators, and cheered on by academics, environmental activists, and the media, the ESG orthodoxy has received little public resistance as it has integrated itself into almost every corner of the financial sector. By 2030, the iron curtain of sustainability will have fully cast its shadow across Wall Street. The Race to Zero provides a detailed rebuttal to the case for sustainable investing from the perspective of a long-time Wall Street analyst, investor, and latter-day finance professor. Sustainable investing does not aim to generate excess returns for investors or to further ethical goals such as improving society or saving the planet; rather, it seeks to seize control of the world's financial system in order to ensure that the allocation of capital and investments across markets is politically favorable to establishment interests. By limiting financial market access, ESG is designed to create a compliant corporate sector to serve as both Greek chorus and funding source for the environmental and social causes championed by government and the elite class. Climate change is its driving force and priority goal, and its main targets are fossil fuel companies operating in the industrialized Western world. This book is designed to expose these truths in plain-spoken language--free of financial jargon--to reach the widest possible audience, including the silent majority on Wall Street that is now afraid to speak up about ESG." -- |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781641773478 1641773472 |
| Index Number: | HG4515 |
| CLC: | F830.59-05 |
| Call Number: | F830.59-05/T555 |
| Contents: | Introduction: a best-laid plan -- Sustainability: a theory about everything -- It's all about climate change -- The UN wants to be your investment adviser -- Wall Street: in the shadow of the mushroom cloud -- ESG: the social control network -- It takes a village of ESG enablers -- A paralysis of analysis -- Sustainable returns and ESG performance art -- The children's hour -- The fiduciary rule: broken, not bent -- Europe attacks! -- A 2030 exit plan. |