Relating Quantitative ESG to the Evolving ESG Regulatory / Reporting Landscape

The field of responsible investing is rapidly expanding, with even greater attention on the importance of responsible investment in 2021, as seen in the aftermath of the hugely impactful COP26 summit. Directing our financial resources in a sustainable direction has the potential to have a massive impact on helping us meet the Sustainable Development Goals set forth by the UN. Though the importance of better alignment between finance and sustainability is clear, and now has a very strong consensus around it, investors still lack the right tools to support their research process in terms of sustainability. They rely on high level data that is largely known not to be reliable, which leads to massive misallocations of capital. RiskLab at the University Toronto has been a contributor to the growing body of work on quantitative Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) investing, and is now looking to round out its research capabilities by bringing in the functional and regulatory perspective on the rapidly shifting landscape of ESG.

Faculty Supervisor:

Luis Seco

Student:

Partner:

Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Toronto

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