Adapting to the Evolving ESG Landscape

Insights for Business Resiliency

This year’s report highlights how ESG information is used by investors to both accurately understand a company’s risks and correctly assess its opportunities. Corporate issuers, responding to this demand, are not only disclosing more information, but beginning to assemble robust reporting controls around ESG data.

This report examines:

• Navigating a polarized ESG landscape
• Understanding the regulatory environment
• Optimizing ESG strategy and risk management
• Enhancing investor ESG communication and engagement

As investors and businesses increasingly prioritize ESG issues, a glut of commentary by media, politicians, and activists has followed. In a saturated landscape, it is difficult to discern meaningful trends from unduly amplified voices. To understand and evaluate evolving investor perceptions on ESG, Rivel interviewed 63 investors across North America and Europe for its third annual study. At the same time, Rivel surveyed 158 North American corporate issuer respondents representing a range of market caps and industries on similar topics to identify gaps and areas of alignment and understand how issuers are navigating the changing ESG landscape.