Tariq Fancy, the chief investment officer of sustainable investing at BlackRock, equates integrating ESG considerations into traditional financial analysis to an exercise in behavior change. Learn more. For North American portfolios, environmental factors are the most significant. Our research reveals five actions that companies can take to prepare for the new era of sustainable investing. Thank you to those who were able to join us! While the world of ESG data still feels a bit like the Wild West, substantial progress in improving the quality and availability of information is being made through market forces, the efforts of NGOs, and, in some territories, regulation—such as an EU directive requiring all companies of a certain size to report nonfinancial information once a year.