Values at Work

Daniel C. Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with primary appointments in the School of the Environment and the Law School and a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. He serves as Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and co-directs the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance. Dan is the author or editor of twelve books and dozens of articles on environmental and energy policy, corporate sustainability strategy, and sustainability metrics. His recent (edited) volume, A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future, was named a top book of 2019 by The Financial Times. He served as head of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection from 2011-14 and in several leadership roles at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1989-93. Todd Cort is a faculty member at the Yale School of Management and Yale School of the Environment.He serves as Faculty Co-Director for the Yale Center for Business and Environment as well as Co-Director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance. Prior to re-joining academia in 2014, Todd served as Director of Sustainability Advisory Services for TUV Rhineland, DNV GL, and Two Tomorrows. In this capacity, he has worked extensively with companies around their ESG disclosures and investor relations. Todd is also the founder of NPV Associates.

• Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Sustainable Investing at a Turning Point; Daniel C. Esty and Todd Cort.- Part II. Measuring Environmental and Social Impacts.- Chapter 2. Evolution of ESG Reporting Frameworks; Satyajit Bose.- Chapter 3. ESG Risk Depends on Management Control Quality; Todd Cort.- Chapter 4. Creating Investment-Grade Corporate Sustainability Metrics; Daniel C. Esty.- Chapter 5. Asset-Level Physical Climate Risk Disclosure; Natalie Ambrosio, Emilie Mazzacurati.- Chapter 6. Mosaic Theory in Sustainable Investing; Valerie S. Grant.- Chapter 7. Toward a Next Generation of Corporate Sustainability Metrics; Daniel C. Esty, David A. Lubin.- Part III. ESG Financial Products.- Chapter 8. Financing the Transition to Green Infrastructure; Ella Warshauer, Cary Krosinsky.- Chapter 9. Private Equity and ESG Investing; Christina Alfonso-Ercan.- Chapter 10. Avoiding the Tragedy of the Horizon: Portfolio Designfor Climate Change-Related Risk Management and the Low-Carbon Energy Transition; Jennifer Bender, Todd Arthur Bridges, Kushal Shah, Alison Weiner.- Part IV. Regulations, Liability, and Fiduciary Duty of ESG  Disclosure.- Chapter 11. Recent Developments in ESG Reporting; Paul A. Davies, Paul M. Dudek, Kristina S. Wyatt.- Chapter 12. Reasonable Investors’ Growing Awareness of Climate Risk and its Impact on U.S. Corporate Disclosure Law; Hana V. Vizcarra.- Chapter 13. Can Investors Rely on Corporate Sustainability Commitments?; Diane Strauss, Aisha I. Saad.- Chapter 14. Financial Regulations and ESG Investing: Looking Back and Forward; Michael Eckhart.