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Environmental reflects how a company or debt issuer manages its impact on the environment and associated risks.

Social indicators are a reflection of how well an issuer integrates with society overall and its workforce more specifically, taking into account issue like human rights, labor practices, and working conditions. 

Companies with good governance practices aim to operate in a fair and ethical way. They address issues around pay, including executive compensation, minimum wage and pay equality. 

Investors and banks are increasingly questioning the long-term viability of the entire sector. Divestment seeks to stigmatize fossil fuels and raise uncertainty around their continued use, to reduce the financial desirability of fossil assets.

Divestment is an important and integral part of the movement against nuclear weapons because it helps further stigmatize and delegitimize nuclear weapons.

Faith-based investing allows people to adhere to the tenets of their faith while still having a diversified portfolio, albeit with some exceptions.