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Hoover Institution Corporate Governance Working Group: 2024 Institutional Investor Survey

The Hoover Institution’s Corporate Governance Working Group just released results from a 2024 institutional investor survey, which indicates that a significant majority of large investors consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns when determining which firms to invest in, but basic governance factors far outweigh environmental and social concerns in their calculus.

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Stefan ZierStanford, ESG
Stanford 2023 Survey Of Investors, Retirement Savings, And ESG

In fall 2023, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Hoover Institution Working Group on Corporate Governance at Stanford University, and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University jointly conducted a nationwide survey of 993 investors—distributed by gender, race, age, household income, and state residence— to understand how American investors view environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities among the companies in their investment portfolio.

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Stefan ZierStanford, ESG
The Future of Green Marketing: Anticipated Changes to the FTC’s Green Guides

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has initiated a review of its 2012 “Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims” — commonly known as the Green Guides — and likely will be under pressure to address certain thorny environmental marketing claims that it declined to weigh in on 10 years ago, including provisions on climate change, sustainability, “environmentally preferable,” “eco-friendly,” and “free” of hazardous chemicals claims.

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Stefan ZierLatham, ESG, Climate
WSGR: Sustainability and ESG Update

Wilson Sonsini is recently shared updates around ESG and sustainability issues, to include news, key legal developments, and resources related to sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters relevant to public and private companies internationally.

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Stefan ZierWSGR, ESG