Do ESG Frameworks Capture Corporate Health Impacts? An Analysis of the Food and Beverage Industry
Raquel Burgess, Kenneth Chen, Savas (Jitae) Kim, Naisha Dharia, Christine Lin, Tanja Srebotnjak, Lawrence Grierson, Nicholas Freudenberg, Daniel C. Esty, Yusuf Ransome · 2025
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Raquel Burgess and co-authors check whether investor ESG screens capture health harm in 2025. Food and drink firms shape health through products, jobs, marketing, and politics. If ESG ratings miss those acts, investors lose a lever for change.
Five ESG standards and rating systems were compared against a research typology of health-shaping acts. That typology spans seven domains, from governance to environment. Health-linked fields in the packaged food segment were graded for relevance and for whether they track process or performance. On average, the fields covered only part of the typology, the analysis finds, leaving gaps the paper maps.
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| CREATOR | Raquel Burgess, Kenneth Chen, Savas (Jitae) Kim, Naisha Dharia, Christine Lin, Tanja Srebotnjak, Lawrence Grierson, Nicholas Freudenberg, Daniel C. Esty, Yusuf Ransome |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 70 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |