It may be hard to imagine that ESG, now a hotly debated topic in American politics, traces its roots back to a former UK tabloid reporter and a 45-minute meeting in a fifth-floor office in Geneva (United Nations).

[professor rat]

ESG = environmental, social, and governance

What are the 3 pillars of ESG?

Use of or dependence on fossil fuels.
Use or management of water and other resources.
Pollution levels.

Term dates from 2004 after global demonstrations ( including anarchists ) shut 
down the WTO, WEF and turned around the World Bank. A new world economic order 
FROM BELOW enabled by net communications and coordination. Not so much 
anti-globalization and anti-free-trade as pro sustainable globalization and pro 
fair-trade.

As for that useful journalist - we ought to have them stuffed - THEY BELONG IN 
A MUSEUM.