Although corporate sustainability has progressed throughout the last decade, there is currently a backlash which is characterized by increasing deregulation in the U.S. and EU. Some companies have also started to scale back their ESG targets and efforts.

In this Executive AFTERNOON Brief CBS Professor and Associate Dean Andreas Rasche will debate how companies should react to this backlash with Georg Kell who is the founding Executive Director of the UN Global Compact and Chairman of Anglo-German asset manager, Arabesque Partners.