NET ZERO

"Industry-led and UN-convened, the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) is a group of leading global banks committed to financing ambitious climate action to transition the real economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050." See generally https://www.unepfi.org/net-zero-banking/.

ESG

An acronym for "Environmental, Social, and Governance",  ESG is a framework used by investors and organizations to evaluate the sustainability and societal impact of a company's operations and practices. A pragmatic definition provides additional information.

For example, a protagonist with "a target of facilitating $1 trillion of sustainable and transition finance between 2023 and 2030."

For example, an antagonist to ESG.

REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

Mitigating reputational risk in financial services — Financier Worldwide 

Compare supra Net Zero with the ongoing plastics and other chemicals global extraordinary-crisis. 

The World's Plastic Pollution Crisis Explained (nationalgeographic.org); 

Everything you need to know about plastic pollution (unep.org); and,

PFAS.