Sustainable BusinessMOVES Blackstone makes sustainability push with slew of new hires
Jessica Dinapoli
3 minutes read
The ticker and trading information for Blackstone Group is displayed at the post where it is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) April 4, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc (BX.N) told Reuters on Tuesday it has made five additions to its environmental, social and governance (ESG) team, as its steps up the implementation of sustainability and diversity initiatives across its businesses.
The hirings come as buyout firms seek to burnish their ESG credentials. While their lucrative leveraged buyouts have won them a loyal investor base, more investors are now asking questions about their impact on jobs and the environment.
Jim Treacy | Shannonside ie shannonside.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shannonside.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ask Elizabeth Lewis, mayor of Atherton, and she’ll tell you privacy is a “big deal” in her town, which, for the past four years, has been the most expensive postcode in which to live in the United
Where were my women on May 3, 1921? Did they dance on the streets and wave flags when Northern Ireland was born? Were their struggles any different when they woke up the next day?
The women in my family were ordinary Protestants from Belfast and Newry. Their stories have not been overly preserved. I have suitcases of clippings on war heroes and handed-down tales of notable men. But I have fewer tools to discern how my women experienced their lives 100 years ago. I ve used official records, newspaper archives and fragments of family memories to piece together their lives.
I wanted to see what could be learned by excavating the truly ordinary. None of my women did anything famous, or infamous. But they glued their own worlds together. And sometimes they fell apart. Imagining their lives during partition is my small tribute to them. As well as an exploration of Protestant women s lives at this time.