Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives have been political and partisan from their inception, but with some 30 states pushing legislation to curb these efforts, there are signs that corporate enthusiasm for ESG is starting to wane.
According to a recent survey (pdf), most corporate social impact teams—a term that overlaps with ESG and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion)—have five or fewer members and are increasingly stressed while seeing low buy-in from the C-suite.
The Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP) recently released its 4th annual survey of these teams, which was conducted in April and included responses from 149 companies….