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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2025

Do ESG Frameworks Capture Corporate Health Impacts? An Analysis of the Food and Beverage Industry.

Raquel Burgess, Kenneth Chen, Savas Jitae Kim, Naisha Dharia, Christine Lin, Tanja Srebotnjak, Lawrence Grierson, Nicholas Freudenberg, Daniel C Esty, Yusuf Ransome

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Raquel BurgessDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3131-366X
Kenneth ChenMunk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 0A7, Canada.
Savas Jitae KimHonours Health Sciences Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada.ORCID 0009-0001-8808-2973
Naisha DhariaHonours Health Sciences Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada.
Christine LinHonours Health Sciences Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada.
Tanja SrebotnjakZilkha Center for the Environment, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA.
Lawrence GriersonDepartment of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8P 1H6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0739-5976
Nicholas FreudenbergDepartment of Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York City, NY 10027, USA.
Daniel C EstyYale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9980-1147
Yusuf RansomeDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4170-2001

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CIHR Doctoral Foreign Study AwardPhilanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investors use information about companies' social and environmental performance to make investment decisions, a strategy known as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment analysis. ESG screening may offer a mechanism to incentivize corporations to improve their health impact. However, there has been limited investigation of the extent to which ESG investment frameworks capture corporate health impacts in major industries. In this study, we sought to characterize the extent to which ESG frameworks address the health-impacting activities of the food and beverage (F&B) industry. To do this, we conducted a deductive framework analysis during the period of September 2023 to March 2024. Specifically, we identified gaps in existing ESG frameworks by comparing the content of five ESG reporting standards and rating systems to the HEALTH-CORP-FB typology, an evidence-based typology that describes the health-impacting activities of the F&B industry across seven domains (Governance Practices, Political Practices, Preference and Perception Shaping Practices, Economic Practices, Employment Practices, Products and Services, and Environmental Practices). To further assess how ESG frameworks account for the health-impacting activities of the F&B industry, we classified health-focused ESG fields in the packaged foods subindustry by two attributes: relevance to the assigned HEALTH-CORP-FB activity (low, medium, high) and type of business operations addressed (e.g., process, performance). Results indicate that, on average, the ESG fields (

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Food IndustryInvestmentsBeveragesEnvironmentHumanscommercial determinants of healthcorporateenvironmental social governanceESGfood and beveragehealthinvestmentnon-financial reportingsustainability

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