Violating the E (Environment) should lead to fines to make up for environmental clean up. If severe enough there should be prison time for the responsible higher ups.
Drop the S and G. There are existing laws to for most of these.
Governments can use weapons embargoes to stop their defense contractors from selling to specific countries.
War, invasions, occupations - it's a growth business apparently. The UK government approves.
Glad that's been settled!
Good for the British people then, and kudos to ESG. As if the UK doesn't have enough surveillance as it is.
What's next, tobacco company bemoans anti-smoking ad restrictions?
The SFDR and similar EU regulations were originally designed to tackle greenwashing, but has now made it almost impossible to raise money for nuclear, aerospace, and defense startups and ventures in the EU (and by network effects also in the UK).
Since 2025/2026 the EU has promised to find ways ease up these regulations because of the war in Ukraine.
Something is really, really wrong in Europe. There will be books written about this in the future.
Replace Europe with the US and the statement holds just as well. Or China or why not Russia.
We live in bad times.
The reality is that, as long as we don't start firing nukes, we'll all be alright in the end.
AI misinformation and slop - should be moderated and not top of HN
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ratherbefuddled•55m ago