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ESG now

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) news and investment research brought to you weekly covering major market trends and new research insights. With topics ranging from climate impact on investment portfolios, corporate actions, trending investment topics, and emerging ESG issues, host Mike Disabato of MSCI ESG Research walk through the latest news and research that is top of mind for MSCI ESG Research clients and partners. MSCI ESG Research products and services are provided by MSCI ESG Research LLC, and are designed to provide in-depth research, ratings and analysis of environmental, social and governance-related business practices to companies worldwide. ESG ratings, data and analysis from MSCI ESG Research LLC are also used in the construction of the MSCI ESG Indexes. MSCI ESG Research LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and a subsidiary of MSCI Inc.

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The ESG Weekly: Deforestation and Coal Death at COP26

Published: Nov. 5, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Emission Talks at COP 26 and Hertz Buys a Tesla

Published: Oct. 29, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 13 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Selling a Portfolios Carbon and Facebooks Oversight Board

Published: Oct. 22, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 13 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Biodiversity Comes to Kunming and Taiwans Semiconductors are Thirsty

Published: Oct. 15, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 43 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Our Only Cryptocurrency Episode

Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 41 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Climatepalooza Pt. 2

Published: Oct. 1, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Climatepalooza Pt. 1

Published: Sept. 24, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Say on Climate and Deluge in the Delta

Published: Sept. 17, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 5 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: NonProfits Sue VW and China Talks Big

Published: Sept. 10, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 4 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: China Bans Gaming

Published: Sept. 3, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Green Marine and German Diversity

Published: Aug. 27, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 59 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: BHP Eschews Oil for Farming

Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Riding Rail Through the Floods and an Excon Back in the Saddle at Samsung

Published: Aug. 13, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 4 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Vaccine Mandates and Walmart's Insulin

Published: Aug. 6, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: China's Education Company Crackdown and Harassment at Activision

Published: July 30, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Methane Emissions and Devastating Floods

Published: July 23, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 29 seconds

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BONUS EPISODE: Linda at the G20 International Conference on Climate in Venice

Published: July 20, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: It's Scorching in Seattle and Overdraft Fees are SO 2020

Published: July 2, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 32 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: APAC is Better at ESG and EVs Aren't Enough

Published: June 25, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: The SEC Welcomes Climate Disclosures and Wrongdoing at Toshiba

Published: June 18, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 57 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Mines Need Biodiversity and HSBC's Legal Carbon Reduction Requirement

Published: June 11, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 23 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: No Change for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Published: June 3, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: ExxonMobil Loses Two Board Seats

Published: May 28, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Telecoms in Myanmar and Powerships in South Africa

Published: May 21, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 29 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Modern Slavery and Native Americans & Mining

Published: May 14, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: SPECIAL Proxy Season Episode

Published: May 5, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 34 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: India's COVID19 Maelstrom and the Fine Print of NDCs

Published: April 30, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 53 seconds

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The ESG Weekly BONUS: Still waiting for ESG to strut its stuff at the earnings call? 2021 may be a turning point

Published: April 27, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Earth Day For the Capital Markets and China

Published: April 23, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: A Union at Amazon and France Bans Flights

Published: April 16, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 13 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Opioids Rage During COVID19 and Politics in Georgia

Published: April 9, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 41 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: The ESG of Marine Shipping and Shadow Investing

Published: April 2, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 49 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Hydrogen and Heavy Industry

Published: March 26, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Online Education in China and Antibiotics in Fast Food

Published: March 19, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Women Reduce Emissions and Voices from Home

Published: March 12, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: The Pay is Very High and Oil Spills on Rigs

Published: March 5, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 33 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: SustainabilityLinked Bonds Hit the Scene and Amazon Gets a New Executive Chair

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Energy Grid Resiliency and GM's EV Push

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Nuclear is Back in Japan and Apple v Facebook

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Another Larry Fink Letter and Market Concentration

Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 55 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Disenfranchised Shareholders and ESG at Banks

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 27 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Vaccine Distribution and Arctic Oil Sales

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Water Futures and Diversity at Nasdaq

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Investors are Mad at Exxon, and Execs are Mad at Shell

Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 2 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Facebook and The Downgrade

Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Joe Biden and the Climate

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 39 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Leadership and Interconnectivity

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 11 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Roundtable with Companies on Diversity, and the DOJ's Lawsuit Against Google

Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 35 seconds

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A zombie in the boardroom? Putting the spooky back in ESG

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 43 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Health care and unemployment, and the largest COVID bond ever

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Pandemics breed contradictions, and racial diversity data during proxy season

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 42 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Japan is not counting votes, and GE gets served

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 46 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Biodiversity Risks, and the Largest IPO Ever

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 39 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: The carbon plans of tech, and the FinCEN Files

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 50 seconds

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ESG Spotlight: Climate Scenario Analysis in the Financial Sector

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: The Business of Disaster, and Apple's EWaste Problem

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: COVID19 pushes the world into an awkward middle ground, and we revisit the quandary of fake news

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds

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How human capital and corporate culture have evolved due to COVID19

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 25 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Uber and Lyft drivers are now employees, and McDonald's sues it former CEO

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 36 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Companies say HVAC systems are the answer to COVID19, and social bonds overtake green bonds

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: We can measure a country's ESG risk, and Nike fires its diversity chief

Published: July 31, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Airlines are bailed out by ESG, and people are sanctioned with companies

Published: July 24, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Rewarding CEOs for being good, and immigrants develop a lot of our technology

Published: July 17, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 47 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Pipelines are OVER; and are drug prices too high?

Published: July 10, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 15 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: The importance of scope 3 emissions and the Facebook boycott

Published: July 3, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Wirecard collapse exposes lack of proper governance

Published: June 26, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 5 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Racial diversity data, contractor safety at construction companies during COVID19

Published: June 12, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds

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ESG Spotlight: Looking at externally managed companies through a freshly polished lens

Published: June 9, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Twitter curates content but Facebook does not, there are some companies cutting carbon

Published: June 5, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 59 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: The ESG of vaccines, and shareholders say JPM must talk climate

Published: May 22, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 29 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Safety at airports, biofuel bailouts, and EU Taxonomy

Published: May 15, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds

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ESG Spotlight: Oil, gas, and the small matter of an energy transition

Published: May 12, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Banks and recessions, Bayer calls a virtual meeting, and COVID19 is spreading in Japan

Published: April 24, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 47 seconds

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ESG Spotlight: Understanding indexes and ESG as COVID19 tightens the screws

Published: April 21, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 20 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: COVID19 in private prisons, companies troubled in France, and investor sentiments on COVID

Published: April 17, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Carbon emissions and pandemics, then we discuss how drugs are rushed forward

Published: April 10, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds

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Re-valuing real estate: investing in the eye of the hurricane

Published: April 7, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 17 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: How are companies considering ESG factors during the coronavirus pandemic?

Published: April 3, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 24 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Can bonds save us from the coronavirus? And old folks on boards

Published: March 27, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 35 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Industries look to survive, adapt or capitalize as the Coronavirus marches on

Published: March 20, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Drug shortages and the coronavirus, from whence your drugs came

Published: March 6, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: The victims of Camp Fire 2018 are now owners of PG&E, the company that caused the wildfires.

Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: BP is going green and Japan decides the more coal the better for the week of February 17.

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 38 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Stakeholders are not happy about Siemens' coal by association for the week of February 3.

Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Indigenous inclusion and carbon offsets can go hand-in-hand, for the week of January 20.

Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds

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Is Hacking Just An Evil Supervillain Trope, Or Something Investors Should Be Prepared For?

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 38 seconds

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The Most Important Thing An Investor Should Know About Private Prisons: Who Do They Care About?

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 13 seconds

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The gig economy has split the workforce

Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: UAW Union Strikes at GM, and Australia Picks Health Over Coal for the Week of September 16

Published: Sept. 20, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 52 seconds

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The hidden cost of cement

Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 5 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Water is Bigger in Texas and My Brand, My Ideology on the Week of July 15

Published: July 19, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Vedanta is a Mine Short and Direct Listing is the New Black on the Week of July 8

Published: July 12, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Tesla Delivers Cars and Wayfair's Labor Problem on the Week of July 1

Published: July 5, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: San Fran's E-Cigarette Ban and Chicken Collusion on the Week of June 25

Published: June 28, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds

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Tomorrow's Labor Solution Is... Unions?

Published: June 25, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 53 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Facebook's Libra and the Trans Mountain Pipeline on the Week of June 17

Published: June 21, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Raytheon/UTC and Ocado's Vertical Farm Play on the Week of June 10

Published: June 14, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 1 second

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The ESG Weekly: Corruption in China and Health Care Equipment on the Week of June 3

Published: June 7, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 56 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Renault/Fiat and Malaysia Just Says "No" to Your Recycling on the Week of May 27

Published: May 31, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 5 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: McDonald's #MeToo moment and Overstock.com's Bitcoin play on the Week of May 20

Published: May 23, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Is There an ESG Angle on Trade Wars, and Amazon's Four-Legged Stool on the Week of May 13

Published: May 16, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Is It Disruption Week? Swine Fever and iBuying on the Week of May 6

Published: May 9, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Norsk Hydro's NASA Fraud and Marriot Goes Gig Economy on the Week of April 29

Published: May 2, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds

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The Problems with ESG

Published: April 30, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Umicore and the Cobalt Problem on the Week of April 22

Published: April 26, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Amazon Employees Form a (Shareholder) Union and Jack Ma's 996 Blessing on the Week of April 15

Published: April 18, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Im(possible?) Burgers and Wells Fargo CEO Search on the Week of April 1

Published: April 5, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: McDonald's AI play and Purdue settles on the Week of March 25

Published: March 27, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 23 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Paul Ryan and Robots on the Week of March 17

Published: March 22, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds

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Leadership Crisis, or Crisis in Influence?

Published: March 19, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 27 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Week of March 10

Published: March 15, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds

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The ESG Weekly: Week of March 3

Published: March 8, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 5 seconds

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Who Pays for Corruption?

Published: Feb. 26, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 6 seconds

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The Power of Peer Pressure on Pay

Published: Feb. 19, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 25 seconds

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Halloween is a Time for Zombies, Ghosts, and Frankenstein

Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 1 second

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A Short History of ESG: Part II

Published: Oct. 15, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 27 seconds

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A Short History of ESG: Part I

Published: Oct. 5, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds

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Join the Gang: Climate Edition

Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds

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The Privacy of Things

Published: Sept. 18, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds

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When Genius Meets Governance

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds

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Back to School Special: Student Debt, Consumer Finance, and Robots

Published: Sept. 4, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds

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Indra Nooyi, and Why Diversity of Management Matters

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds

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Where should we even start? 2018 ESG Trends redux

Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds

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Welcome to the MSCI ESG Research Podcast, ESG Now

Published: Aug. 24, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

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