2024 presidential candidates on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG)

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This page includes statements from the 2024 presidential candidates on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). These statements were compiled from each candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and debates.

The candidates featured on this page were the noteworthy Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Only candidates who addressed this page's issue on their campaign website, in public statements, or in public speeches have a quote featured on this page. See something we missed? Email us. The active noteworthy presidential candidates as of November 5, 2025, were:

Kamala Harris (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Chase Oliver (L)
Jill Stein (G)

Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG)

Republican candidates

Ron DeSantis

DeSantis' campaign website said, "DeSantis will not tolerate woke corporations using ESG as an end-run around our constitutional system to impose heavy-handed, left-wing edicts through concentrated private power. There will be no ideological litmus test for getting a loan, establishing a bank account, or running a business." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-19]}

Vivek Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy's campaign website listed the following policy, "Rescind Biden’s ESG rule for retirement funds: get politics out of corporate America and capital markets." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}

Donald Trump

Trump's campaign website said, "The entire ESG scheme is designed to funnel your retirement money to the maniacs on the radical left. The rule we issued under my leadership was the first ESG ban anywhere in the world. And I'm delighted that Republicans in Congress and across the country have been waking up to this threat and following my lead." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}