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CEO Insight Minute: How Can Companies Address ESG Backlash?

CEO Insight Minute: How Can Companies Address ESG Backlash? True

 

 

Companies are facing ESG backlash from a variety of quarters, including elected officials, regulators, investors, customers, employees, executives, and board members. Backlash is being driven by those with motivations ranging from healthy skepticism to philosophic opposition, to self-serving opportunism. And it has also been helped along by, in some cases, the overselling of ESG from its proponents.

 

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Paul Washington

Paul Washington
President and CEO
Society for Corporate Governance

Paul Washington is the President and CEO of the Society for Corporate Governance (the “Society”). Founded in 1946, the Society is a not-for-profit organization with over 3,700 members dedicated to enhancing corporate governance through education, collaboration, and advocacy. 

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