Why is Big Capital ditching the ESG agenda?

... promoting Ukraine’s eco-friendly war arsenal these days. As for the child slave miners of Congo, “let them eat cake” as Marie Antoinette once allegedly said. 5. BRICS multipolar order There is a geopolitical dimension to Big Capital’s U-turn on ESG. The resource-rich sub-Saharan Africa is tilting towards the BRICS bloc, in particular China, even as the West implodes from within. A new generation of African leaders are ganging up to free their nations from the shackles of the West, IMF, World Bank and even the United Nations. An alignment with the BRICS bloc ...