Generation lost: young financial analysts and environmental, social and governance issues

Integration of environmental, social, and governance issues in financial analysis would spur progress toward more sustainable business practices. To date, however, efforts to convince financial analysts to incorporate these issues have met with little success.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Young Managers Team (YMT) and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) joined forces to assess whether young analysts might be more amenable to integrating environmental, social, and governance issues than their older colleagues.

If they are, we could expect the industry to gradually evolve to embrace environmental, social, and governance factors as new generations of analysts come on board.

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