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JD Supra Blog: Is Tax Transparency the New ESG Disclosure Demand?
July 21, 2021
Cooley LLP in the JD Supra Blog analyses an article published in Bloomberg reporting that tax transparency has become a growing “under-the-radar” element of ESG disclosure and explores the debate between investors on the subject.
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Twitter Takes Action on Record Number of Accounts for Hate Speech
July 19, 2021
During the second half of 2020, Twitter Inc., in an effort to take action on their expansion of Hate Speech rules, penalized 1,126,990 different accounts, a 77% increase in a six month period, for violating the company’s hate speech policies.
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JD Supra: Hogan Lowells explains ESG
July 19, 2021
In an article posted on JD Supra, Hogan Lowells explains Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) standards in detail including its history, potential for sustainability, as well as short and long term effects of its influence on business.
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Jack M. Mintz: ESG Rankings are Not Reliable
July 14, 2021
Jack M. Mintz writes in the Financial Post that Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) guidelines cannot be standardized to help make investment decisions due to the fact that most component measures too subjective and goes on to warn that many companies “greenwash” their ESG results to make themselves look better.
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KPMG Expands ESG Services
July 14, 2021
After working with the World Economic Forum last year to create a set of 21 core metrics for companies to disclose progress in ESG, KPMG has announced a new initiative called KPMG Impact, that will increase the companies efforts to provide environmental, social and governance services to clients.