Links tagged “esg”
- Oklahoma enacts law to counter ESG policies targeting fossil fuels
- Elon Musk: ‘ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors’
- Italy to Pilot Social Credit System for ‘Climate-Friendly’ Behavior
The city of Bologna, Italy, has announced a pilot program to reward “virtuous” citizens for recycling, taking public transportation, and curbing energy usage. The program, which has been likened to China’s social credit system, is slated to go into effect in September, 2022, using a “smart citizen wallet” app for cell phones.
“In September, we will start with a pilot project for the city: at the center is the virtuous citizen, the one who, for example, separates waste well or does not waste energy, or uses public transport and does not receive fines, or actively uses the Bologna Welcome Card,” announced Massimo Bugani, councilor for the city’s digital agenda and civic use of data, at a press conference late last month. “The municipality will assign such citizens a score as part of a reward system with economic benefits to individual users,” Bugani explained.
- Russell Brand nails ESG: ‘It seems to me that what the ESGs are is the electricity that lights the lamps of virtual signaling’
- Woke Investors Threaten the West’s Security: ‘It is folly to let Wall Street determine the nation’s energy policy’
- SEC Ignores the Easiest Way to Reduce Climate Policy Risks – Oppose the NetZero Agenda
Marlo Lewis, Jr.: In short, the Biden administration’s real goal is not to protect investors but to de-capitalize and de-bank fossil-fuel companies. Or, in President Biden’s words, the goal is “promoting the flow of capital toward climate-aligned investments and away from high-carbon investments.”
- Debunking the media’s lies about ESG social credit scores & the Great Reset
Beck & Haskins: ESG metrics are a kind of social credit scoring system, similar to the model now being used in China. Their purpose is to create a new framework for evaluating businesses, banks, investors, and governments, so that instead of just looking at profits, losses, debt, employee satisfaction, and other traditional economic metrics, an organization is evaluated for its commitment to battling climate change and devotion to social justice causes, including, for example, the racial composition of a company’s workforce. .. ESG systems are designed to force businesses and consumers to adopt the values, ideas, products, and services the wealthy elites imposing social credit scores are calling for, and those elites regularly work hand in hand with government and central banks to advance ESG goals.
The World Economic Forum and U.S. State Department entered into a special partnership in November at a COP26 climate change event. In 2020, the Federal Reserve hired BlackRock, the world’s wealthiest asset manager and a leading proponent of ESG, to help the Fed purchase corporate bonds — purchases that directly benefited BlackRock. The SEC proposed mandated ESG disclosure rules this month, and the European Union is now on the verge of mandating ESG metrics for many companies in the EU.
- Democrats Look To Sustainable Investing Craze As Means For Pushing Climate Agenda
Democrats, banks, regulators and activists have increasingly set their sights on the financial sector and legal system, not Congress, for pushing their aggressive climate agenda. Employing so-called environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, financial institutions and government agencies have quietly implemented policies prioritizing a focus on factors unrelated to a company’s bottom line, experts said. The ESG movement has swept across the corporate world, leading to individual pledges from companies promising to become more sustainable and improve internal diversity.
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- Listen: Vivek Ramaswamy gives best explanation of ESG: ‘The defining scam of our time’ – ‘Agendas that would make the blood of those retirees boil if they knew’
Ramaswamy: "That is not the free market in action. It's even worse than a monopoly or an ideological cartel. They're working hand in glove with the party in power to be able to do their bidding through the private sector. If you couldn't get the Green New Deal through Congress, guess what? John Kerry is doing? He's getting every major banking CEO to sign the so-called Climate Pledge...but it is also a form of crony capitalism because I will tell you, you know, as well as I, banks are not charitable institutions.
The question is what are they getting in return for signing that climate pledge. This is the crony capitalism of our moment, and I just think the way in which the critical race theory issue was in mobilizing issue for Republicans in 2021." - Standing up to Putin means ditching Net-Zero (& Green New Deal) – ‘The West can’t win a geopolitical conflict…with an economy powered intermittently by wind & solar’
Rupert Darwall: The dilemma for the West: you can’t win a geopolitical conflict lasting years or decades with an economy powered intermittently by wind turbines and solar panels. ... Thanks to inadequate infrastructure connecting New England to the rest of the country and the century-old Jones Act – requiring that all goods moving by water between American ports travel on ships built, owned, and manned by Americans – the winter of 2018 saw Russian liquefied natural gas being brought ashore in Boston Harbor. ...
Currently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is mulling a climate disclosure rule. The intent is to strengthen the hand of Wall Street and woke institutional investors to impose, in effect, an embargo on investment in domestic oil and gas production. The logic appears to be that domestically produced oil and gas incurs climate risk, whereas imported energy from beyond Wall Street’s writ does not. ... The European Union is a paper empire. Its power is bureaucratic, deriving from rules and regulations. It is institutionally incapable of thinking and acting geopolitically because the EU is meant to be the exemplar of a post-geopolitical world, in which national sovereignty is dissolved in a supra-national, rules-based order. Net-zero and the UN climate process represent EU-style supranationalism at a global level. ...
In late 2019, Boris Johnson banned commercial fracking. Earlier this month, the British government ordered that concrete be poured into the country’s two exploratory shale wells and for them to be abandoned. The move was blasted by Cuadrilla Resources CEO Francis Egan, who pointed out that the Bowland shale formation could supply 50 years of current U.K. gas demand. ... Germany’s and the EU’s net-zero policies will deepen their dependence on Putin’s goodwill as they increase their exposure to unreliable wind and solar, phase out coal, and – in the case of Germany and Belgium – prematurely close their nuclear power stations. Strategically, that’s a win for Putin.
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WHO’s pandemic treaty is ‘a ratification and approval of everything the world has experienced over the past two years’
The real significance of the Pandemic Treaty is that its passage is a ratification and approval of everything the world has experienced over the past two years during COVID-19. ... Terrified by this surge of deaths and the psychological terror campaigns deployed by governments on their own people, populations across the western world proceeded to impose an ever-darker swathe of illiberal mandates including forced masking and digital vaccine passes for everyday activities. Young children, who were at virtually no risk from the virus, lost years of primary education, and many were forced to wear masks for hours each day.
By signing onto the Pandemic Treaty, our leaders are signaling their approval for all this—and more—to be done again.
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The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favor Lockdowns
The requirement that a country’s pandemic strategy must aim to curb viral transmission is a major change from the current guidance.
"All countries to have an explicit evidence-based strategy agreed at the highest level of government to curb COVID-19 transmission."
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Neurosurgeon rips COVID as ‘one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies’
Throughout this “pandemic” we have been fed an unending series of lies, distortions and disinformation by the media, the public health officials, medical bureaucracies (CDC, FDA and WHO) and medical associations.
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Indiana Attorney General provides ‘examples of Covid misinformation’ to Feds: Rips ‘mass testing of asymptomatic individuals…contact tracing…shattered trust’ in public health