You’re invited to join Arabella Advisors for a conversation about the recent rise in well-funded efforts to ban investment strategies that aim to advance environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals and expand diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). These efforts are assaults on the progress that investors have made to protect our climate, enhance DEI, safeguard hard-won pensions, and promote other critical needs. We’ll explore the urgently needed public policy responses to these attacks and how funders can get involved.
More and more investors and companies are choosing to recognize climate and other ESG risks as material to their long-term sustainability. As a result, they are deploying investment strategies that advance ESG and DEI goals in order to fuel and sustain progress on a range of issues.
Yet this momentum has attracted attention from detractors. Those who are opposed to climate action and racial equity are using every tactic they can to attack these important investment strategies, including:
This isn't just a problem for the investment community. Mission-driven investing and philanthropic work are highly interdependent. Left unchecked, these anti-DEI and anti-ESG efforts will hinder the ability of philanthropic efforts to advance climate, DEI, workers' rights, and other goals.
To prevent this dangerous backslide, institutional investors, civil society groups, labor, and other stakeholders need to coordinate significant pushback against the above tactics. Without fighting back, investors and companies, as well as funders and their grantees, may not be able to make progress in addressing the climate crisis, racial equity, and other critical challenges.
Join us to hear from advocates and donors leading the responses to anti-ESG and anti-DEI investment strategies as they discuss what work is already being done, why it’s critical to get others involved, and concrete ways for donors to plug in and respond to these attacks.
This conversation is convened by a group of organizations that work with and build the capacity of faith- and values-based investors to engage in impact investing, shareholder advocacy, and other approaches to advancing the common good, human and workers’ rights, and climate justice.
04/10/24 12:00pm — 1:15pm
Virtual
You’re invited to join Arabella Advisors for a conversation about the recent rise in well-funded efforts to ban investment strategies that aim to advance environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals and expand diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). These efforts are assaults on the progress that investors have made to protect our climate, enhance DEI, safeguard hard-won pensions, and promote other critical needs. We’ll explore the urgently needed public policy responses to these attacks and how funders can get involved.
More and more investors and companies are choosing to recognize climate and other ESG risks as material to their long-term sustainability. As a result, they are deploying investment strategies that advance ESG and DEI goals in order to fuel and sustain progress on a range of issues.
Yet this momentum has attracted attention from detractors. Those who are opposed to climate action and racial equity are using every tactic they can to attack these important investment strategies, including:
This isn't just a problem for the investment community. Mission-driven investing and philanthropic work are highly interdependent. Left unchecked, these anti-DEI and anti-ESG efforts will hinder the ability of philanthropic efforts to advance climate, DEI, workers' rights, and other goals.
To prevent this dangerous backslide, institutional investors, civil society groups, labor, and other stakeholders need to coordinate significant pushback against the above tactics. Without fighting back, investors and companies, as well as funders and their grantees, may not be able to make progress in addressing the climate crisis, racial equity, and other critical challenges.
Join us to hear from advocates and donors leading the responses to anti-ESG and anti-DEI investment strategies as they discuss what work is already being done, why it’s critical to get others involved, and concrete ways for donors to plug in and respond to these attacks.
This conversation is convened by a group of organizations that work with and build the capacity of faith- and values-based investors to engage in impact investing, shareholder advocacy, and other approaches to advancing the common good, human and workers’ rights, and climate justice.