ESG

abbreviation for

1. environmental, social, and governance: a strategic framework for measuring a company's impact on the environment, relationships with the people and companies it is connected to, and management practices:

   The remaining question is whether ESG can be implemented without negatively impacting profit.

   Financial regulators have been promoting green finance and ESG investing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ESG¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Vance, and why ESG has survived while DEI is in the dumps.

From Slate

“Gain of Function” has become something of a shibboleth for lab-leak adherents, the way “critical race theory” and ESG have become dog whistles for activists trying to undermine, respectively, the public educational system and environmental and social concerns for investors — in this case, giving the term a uniquely sinister connotation.

From Los Angeles Times

This is something the governor of Florida — a Republican who was previously, and perhaps fittingly, dubbed “Meatball Ron” by former president Donald Trump — has made clear for months, first while railing against ESG frameworks and a California law that requires farmers to provide more room for breeding pigs, and then eventually in his sustained campaign to ban lab-grown meat, which ultimately succeeded last week.

From Salon

Strive plans to release a detailed report later this year, after the proxy season ends, he said in an interview, adding Strive voted against compensation plans and the chair of compensation committees “at every company where there was ESG/DEI in the compensation plan.”

From Seattle Times

The Conference Board found that about 76% of S&P 500 companies had DEI/ESG incentives in their compensation plan in 2023, an increase from about 67% in 2021.

From Seattle Times