Last Sunday, I was talking to my mother and she said “Do you even know, how difficult it was to do assignments in my college days. We had to go to the library, look at 10 books. Your generation is so lucky, you just search on the Internet and be done with it but how does it know everything?”. That’s when I realized, despite browsing the internet so much, I never paid attention to the workings of the internet.

ESG - Environmental, Social, and Governance, initially thought of as a lens to measure the societal impact of investments in businesses and firms, has evolved and has become a key focus area for investors. Since its inception in 1970 - by selective disinvestment in companies operated in South Africa to show the abhorrence against the regime, it has changed over time into a more concrete concept. Earlier, it was believed that the return on investment in sustainable businesses will comparatively be less than other businesses. But this turned out to be false. Now, after many years of empirical research by various academic researchers and investors, it has been proven that sustainable businesses are efficient and provide better financial returns.