If you have a tear, please shed it for ESG

In recent months, ESG has seen some important, thoughtful and helpful critiques levelled at it by Tariq Fancy, Stuart Kirk and others, who attack it for being ineffective. Yet at the same time, it is also being denounced as a pernicious form of ‘woke capitalism'. The criticism has gone so far that ESG has become the storyline in the Dilbert cartoon strip, in which the characters are known for time-wasting, lying and engaging in petty office politics. If you have a tear, please shed it for ESG - friendless and critiqued from both sides of the fence. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. So,...