The acronym ESG first appears in 2004 in a report that was issued by the United Nations Global Compact. It suggests how finance industry could better apply environmental, social and governance goals to things like asset management and investing. There were only a few funds that did it; they tended to be kind of boutique funds. The concept was the market as a whole hasn't really recognized this.

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