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Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is an approach to evaluating the extent to which a corporation works on behalf of social goals that go beyond the role of a corporation to maximize profits on behalf of the corporation's shareholders. Typically, the social goals advocated within an ESG perspective include working to achieve a certain set of environmental goals, as well as a set of goals having to do with supporting certain social movements, and a third set of goals having to do with whether the corporation is governed in a way that is consistent with the goals of the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement.A variety of governmental organizations and financial institutions have devised ways to measure the extent to which a specific corporation is aligned with ESG goals. According to a 2021 study done by the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, which looked at over 1,000 studies, "studies use different scores for different companies by different data providers."Research shows that such intangible assets comprise an increasing percentage of future enterprise value. While there are many ways to think of intangible asset metrics, these three central factors together, ESG, comprise a label that has been adopted throughout the United States financial industry. They are used for a myriad of specific purposes with the ultimate objective of measuring elements related to sustainability and societal impact of a company or business. MSCI, a global ESG rating agency uses the term from investment perspective and defines ESG Investing as the consideration of environmental, social, and governance factors alongside financial factors in the investment decision-making process. Likewise, S&P highlights that through ESG investing, market participants consider in their decision-making the ways in which environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities can have material impacts on companies' performance. Investors who use ESG in their decision-making are able to invest sustainably while maintaining the same level of financial returns as they would with a standard investment approach.The term ESG was first coined in 2005 in a landmark study entitled “Who Cares Wins" conference in 2005, a conference that first brought together institutional investors, asset managers, buy-side and sell-side research analysts, global consultants and government bodies and regulators to examine the role of environmental, social, and governance value drivers in asset management and financial research.In less than 20 years, the ESG movement has grown from a corporate social responsibility initiative launched by the United Nations into a global phenomenon representing more than US$30 trillion in assets under management. In the year 2019 alone, capital totaling US$17.67 billion flowed into ESG-linked products, an almost 525 percent increase from 2015, according to Morningstar. Critics claim ESG linked-products have not had and are unlikely to have the intended impact of raising the cost of capital for polluting firms, and have accused the movement of greenwashing.

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Dambisa Felicia Moyo (born (1969-02-02)2 February 1969) is a Zambian-born economist and author, known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. She serves on the boards of Chevron Corporation, Condé Nast and the 3M Company. Moyo worked for two years at the World Bank and eight years at Goldman Sachs before becoming an author and international public speaker. She has written four New York Times bestselling books: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (2009), How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead (2011), Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (2012), and the most recent Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It (2018). In May 2021, she released her first business book How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World. She holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and an MBA from American University, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a DPhil in economics from the University of Oxford.

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Christopher David Steele (born 24 June 1964) is a British former intelligence officer with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1987 until his retirement in 2009. He ran the Russia desk at MI6 headquarters in London between 2006 and 2009. In 2009, he co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based private intelligence firm.
Steele became the center of controversy after he authored a dossier for multiple clients, including an attorney associated with the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. The dossier claims, based on anonymous sources, Russia collected a file of compromising information on Donald Trump.Trump and his allies have falsely claimed the U.S. intelligence community probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election were launched due to Steele's dossier. The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee concluded in an April 2018 report that the probe had been triggered by previous information from Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, and the February 2018 Nunes memo, written by staff members for that committee, reached the same conclusion.

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Hizbollah (arabiska حزب الله, "Guds parti") är en shiamuslimsk milisgrupp i Libanon, bestående av en politisk, en militär och många sociala grenar. Den följer en shia-ideologi inspirerad av ayatolla Ruhollah Khomeini, ledaren för den islamiska revolutionen i Iran.Hizbollah framträdde först under inbördeskriget i Libanon som en milis av shiiter som var anhängare till ayatolla Khomeini, utbildade, organiserade och finansierade av en kontingent ur Irans revolutionsgarde. Hizbollahs två huvudsakliga mål är att utrota västerländsk kolonialism i Libanon, och att föra dem inför rätta som begick grymheter under kriget (särskilt falangister. Hizbollah önskar se en enstatslösning i Palestinafrågan då de ser Israel som en olaglig statsbildning och icke-nation. Hizbollah anser Israel vara en illegitim stat och förespråkar dess avveckling. Dock ser man det primärt som en 'palestinsk fråga' och Hizbollahs ledare (Sayed) Hassan Nasrallah har sagt att man inte ämnar sabotera en eventuell framförhandlad tvåstatslösning.Hizbollah är officiellt listad som en terrororganisation av USA, Storbritannien, Australien, Israel, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Nederländerna, Argentina, Kanada, Frankrike, Arabförbundet, Gulfstaternas samarbetsråd och Europeiska unionen. 
Hizbollah har folkligt stöd bland shiiter i Libanon och har mobiliserat demonstrationer med hundratusentals deltagare. Dessutom mottar Hizbollah vapen, utbildning och ekonomiskt stöd från Iran och har "opererat med Syriens välsignelse" sedan slutet av inbördeskriget.Hizbollahs väpnade gren misstänks ligga bakom bombattentaten mot amerikanska och franska fredsbevarande trupper under det libanesiska inbördeskriget, bombningen av den israeliska ambassaden i Buenos Aires och kapningen av TWA Flight 847 den 14 juni 1985 som flög från Aten med destination Rom. Enligt Svenska Dagbladet, 13 juli 2006, har Hizbollah fått sin tunga militära utrustning av Iran, däribland raketartilleri och sjömålsrobotar som kom till bruk under striderna med Israel juli-augusti 2006. Denna militärmateriel fraktas genom Syrien till södra Libanon, vilket enligt SvD kräver den syriska regeringens aktiva deltagande. Hizbollah har sagt sig vara beredda att lägga ner sin militära gren om Israel återlämnar Shebaaområdet, släpper alla libanesiska fångar samt överlämnar kartor över de minfält som man lade ut i södra Libanon 1983-2000.Hizbollah, som började med enbart en milis, har växt till en organisation som har platser i Libanons regering, en radiostation och en TV-station, al-Manar, med internationella sändningar och program för social utveckling. Sedan 1992 har organisationen letts av sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, dess generalsekreterare. Vid sidan av den militära rörelsen har Hizbollah en civil gren som har en social verksamhet med sjukhus, skolor, barnhem, radio- och TV-stationer. Den politiska grenen av Hizbollah har tolv platser i det libanesiska parlamentet och ingår i den libanesiska regeringen. Partiet är framförallt aktivt i Bekaadalen, Beiruts södra förorter och södra Libanon. Organisationen finansieras till stora delar av näringslivsverksamhet, särskilt inom byggsektorn, och privata gåvor men antas också få medel av Iran och Syrien. Hizbollah har stått i återkommande direkta strider med IDF men den 12 juli 2006 i samband med Libanonkriget 2006 bröt mer intensiva och långvariga strider ut.
Sedan 2012 deltar Hizbollah med stridande trupp i det syriska inbördeskriget på Assad-regeringens sida och därvid lidit betydande förluster i döda och sårade. Motståndet mot Israel har därför trappats ned dramatiskt. Arabvärldens tidigare stöd för organisationen har ersatts av en sekteristisk splittring mellan sunni och shia.

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Najib Azmi Mikati (Arabic: نجيب عزمي ميقاتي; born 24 November 1955) is a Lebanese politician and businessman, and three-time Prime Minister of Lebanon whose current term began in September 2021. He previously served as Prime Minister from June 2011 to February 2014 and from April to July 2005. He also served as Minister of Public Works and Transport from December 1998 to 2003.
Mikati was close to the Syrian government and operated several telecom projects in Syria and Lebanon.In 2005, he headed an interim government that supervised the general election following the withdrawal of Syrian troops. In 2011, he formed his second government backed by the March 8 alliance, before he resigned in 2013. He was a member of parliament for Tripoli from 2000 to 2005 and was re-elected in 2009 and 2018. In July 2021, he was designated as PM.According to Forbes, he is the richest man in Lebanon, with a net worth of $2.5 billion in 2021. He has been subject of multiple corruption accusations, and was charged with illegitimate gains.

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