Climate change, diversity, and systemic inequality topped the ESG agenda in 2020
The coronavirus pandemic, escalating attacks on people of color, and rising activism against racism and income inequality heightened the focus on ESG issues by corporations, investors and other stakeholders in 2020
T. Rowe Price's third ESG Annual Report also finds that corporate leaders, once resistant to ESG trends, now see addressing them and providing adequate disclosure and transparency as essential to attracting and retaining top talent
The $1.5-trillion global asset manager sees need for improved and expanded environmental and social disclosure, regulation, and data integrity and is working with its investee companies, industry groups, global regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders to encourage further progress