Investor Climate Action and Workplace Activism Insights
INVESTORS USE A RANGE OF
SOURCES TO EVALUATE ESG
Percent who say each information source is useful for evaluating ESG performance, among U.S. investors
Somewhat useful
Very useful
98
97
96
96
96
95
95
95
94
93
71
70
70
71
63
64
64
67
58
Investor days
and/or
conference
presentations
Report
summary/fact
sheet
Earnings calls ESG microsite
C-suite
communications
(e.g.,
presentations)
PDF ESG report Digital web report Social media Financial filings
(LinkedIn, Twitter, (10-K, proxy)
blog posts)
2021 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Institutional Investors. Q22_5: Using the scale below, please rate the utility of each of the following sources of information for evaluating a
company's ESG performance. For each one, please indicate how useful each format is using a 4-point scale where 1 means "not at all useful" and 4 means "very useful". Shown T2B Agree.
United States n=100
Edelman
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