In this episode of ESG Talks, Emilie Nadler from KBRA’s ESG team interviews President and CEO, Jim Nadler, and Pat Welch, Chief ESG and Ratings Policy Officer. With recent market developments and a move by some rating agencies away from ESG scoring systems, Jim and Pat discuss KBRA’s view on ESG scoring and the evolution of KBRA’s ESG philosophy. As a credit rating agency, KBRA remains steadfastly focused on analyzing the financial materiality of ESG factors and their relevance to credit today and in the future. KBRA’s position has long been that the process of merging ESG scoring into credit ratings muddles the purity of credit risk analysis by introducing ESG metrics that may have little to no financial materiality.