ESG's three central actors are:

Environmental criteria

• Waste and pollution
• Resource depletion
• Greenhouse gas emission
• Deforestation
• Climate change

Social criteria

• Employee relations & diversity
• Working conditions, including child labor and slavery
• Local communities; seeks explicitly to fund projects or institutions that will serve poor and underserved communities globally
• Health and safety
• Conflict

Governance criteria

• Tax strategy
• Executive remuneration
• Donations and political lobbying
• Corruption and bribery
• Board diversity and structure