An advantage of the carbon footprinting approach to environmental risk analysis is that it allows for:
An analyst derives correlations to determine how ESG factors might impact financial performance over time and then weights those factors appropriately within the portfolio. This approach is best described as:
In the revised 2020 version of the UK Stewardship Code, a significant change is that signatories are now required to:
Which of the following tests defines the internal theoretical cost on carbon emissions to guide a company's decision-making process in energy-intensive sectors?
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommends measuring carbon exposure on a:
Tools that evaluate companies, countries, and bonds based on their exposure or involvement-specific factors, sectors, products, or services are referred to as:
A French company is most likely considered to have weak corporate governance practices if its board:
A common characteristic of the EU Paris-Aligned Benchmarks and the EU Climate Transition Benchmarks is that they both:
A company's external auditor formally reports to the:
The World Bank's World Governance Indicators dataset includes rankings on:
A company’s exposure to social trends and factors:
Excluding tobacco from the investment universe is an example of which of the following ESG screening approaches?
Which of the following index providers offers fixed-income ESG indexes?
Which of the following countries have a joint audit requirement that all public interest entities must engage at least two independent accounting firms to perform an annual audit?
The consulting firm McKinsey & Company includes transparency as part of which of the following dimensions of an asset manager's investment approach?
