Dr Shauhrat S. Chopra, Assistant Professor, was invited by  One Earth  to share his opinion as part the Voices article on "Aligning Purchasing Power with Sustainable Production and Consumption". The short passage entitled "Credible ESG Data Disclosures", featured in the July issue, highlights the need to establish ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) data-acquisition tools to avoid ESG becoming just another futile "green finance" initiative. ESG integration in stock exchanges and companies necessary for achieving SDG12.6, but a lack of consistency and transparency in the data collection for ESG disclosures makes them open to greenwashing.

https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30310-9