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The religious roots of ESG investing

2025/4/22
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Hey Smarties! Today we’re sharing an episode from our friends over at “How We Survive,” Marketplace’s climate solutions podcast. This season, host Amy Scott and the team dig into the rise of environmental, social and governance-based investing, or ESG, and the right wing backlash that followed. In this episode,) the story of ESG’s start revolves around some unexpected players: rabbis, nuns and other faith-based investors.