CRISPR Comes to ESG

As drought is followed by flood, there is renewed talk of how gene-editing techniques can be used to shield our agricultural system against the ravages of climate change. Recently, seed companies have turned to the targeted genome modification of plants using methods like Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats or CRISPR for short. We discuss what companies are involved in using CRISPR to make new gene-edited crops and what governments might be softening to their use. Then, we discussed the ruling by the EU that Meta’s ad practices were illegal under EU law.

Host: Mike Disabato, MSCI ESG Research

Guests: Cole Martin and Yoon Young Chung, MSCI ESG Research