Stakeholders push oil companies to address climate change risks, Credit Suisse in the news for another debt controversy, Bitcoin Mining Council was created to promote energy usage transparency and encourage renewable sources, and other news in this issue of the Sustainable Investing Highlights. 

The year 2020 will go down in the history books as one of the worst since the Great Depression. The pandemic upended the lives of billions of people. It exacerbated income and social inequalities and revealed fundamental weaknesses in our infrastructure. It was a Great Disruption, wreaking havoc on healthcare delivery, travel and communications infrastructure, and critical global supply chains – in particular the global food supply chain.

For over twenty-five years, Pathstone and its legacy firms have helped clients to achieve their financial objectives, while incorporating investment strategies focused on Environmental, Social, and Governance analysis (“ESG”). While every client conversation is unique, there are several key questions clients have asked over the years regarding ESG investing.