Arizona's incumbent treasurer says considering climate risk and other factors in making investment decisions is tantamount to 'woke' capitalism.
Tim Steller The usually dry race for Arizona treasurer has some extra juice this year as conservatives attempt to squeeze out efforts to bring climate concerns into financial decisions.
People are also reading… Yee’s opponent, state Sen. Martin Quezada, blames the fossil-fuel industry for driving this movement against considering environmental factors in investment and financial decisions. Yee said by joining these other treasurers she is trying to defend American energy companies and “Push back against this big-government approach.”
I asked Nicole Darnall, a foundation professor of management and public policy at ASU, what she thought of the investment board’s new policy of ignoring ESG measures to focus only on “pecuniary” ones. She described it as a false dichotomy.
But this is, of course, not an organic movement against considering ESG factors in investments. The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has been campaigning against efforts by banks and other institiutions to divest from fossil fuel companies.
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