ESG Insider is a podcast hosted by S&P Global that explores environmental, social, and governance issues. This week we're talking to the largest bank in the U.S. and Europe about their ESG strategies. JPMorgan has also been in headlines related to racism. In December 2019, The New York Times published a story detailing discrimination against a wealthy client of the bank's financial advisors.
Climate change took "a bit of a backseat" during the first several weeks of the coronavirus pandemic as "governments and businesses frankly were really just focused on survival," JPMorgan Chase Head of Sustainability Marisa Buchanan said in an exclusive interview in the latest episode of "ESG Insider," an S&P Global podcast.
"As economies begin to rebuild [and] businesses have greater ability to focus on these issues, we're going to see budget and bandwidth come back hopefully," Buchanan said.
The episode is part of a series in which we talk to some of the world's biggest lenders about how they are adapting their environmental, social and governance strategies amid COVID-19 and widespread protests against racism following George Floyd's death in the custody of Minneapolis police.
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