ESG: Environmental criteria: how a company performs as a steward of nature. Social criteria: how a company manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where it operates. Governance criteria: how a company is/acts in leadership, executive pay, audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights. Basically, Investors are increasingly applying these non-financial criteria as part of their analysis process to identify material risks and growth opportunities in their decisions of where to invest.