Companies need to "be taking a look at the findings to ... make sure [they] don't fall into the same mistakes."

So far this year, 6 of 30 environmental proposals and 10 of 107 social proposals have passed, according to the latest ESG shareholder proposal study from Georgeson.

"The SEC's climate disclosure proposal is the most extensive, comprehensive and complicated disclosure initiative in decades," said Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner Meredith Cross, a former SEC official.

A new shareholder proposal would force Nike to disclose the results of its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Research shows "a pretty big disconnect" between U.S. and foreign boards of directors on the topic of corporate ESG policy.

A new survey from the American Chamber of Commerce in China shows that coronavirus woes are bringing economic gloom and uncertainty to international businesses, many of which say it's simply too soon to know how bad things will get.