HL's Emma Wall tells parliament standardisation is key challenge for ESG

Speaking to BEIS committee

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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Standardising ESG disclosures is a key challenge for the industry to overcome, Hargreaves Lansdown's Emma Wall told the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee today (11 October).

In the BEIS meeting held to "to examine ESG and [the] rise of ethical investment banking", HL's head of investment analysis and research stressed the importance of bringing "some terminology and some homogeny to this industry". Wall gave the example of Tesla, with some ESG ratings agencies ranking the firm as a poor performer on environmental issues due to its reliance on resources extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while others rate it highly due to being at the "forefront of the electric vehicle revolution". LSE to admit $3bn green bond from Saudi sovereign wealth f...

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