SideBar In this article from BlackRock's Vice Chair Barbara Novick et al., the authors contend that, to facilitate BlackRock's goal of putting sustainability at the center of its investment strategy, corporate issuers must provide more clarity and comparability in their ESG reporting, which will require harmonization and convergence of reporting frameworks, metrics and scoring methodologies. According to the BlackRock article, the need for alignment and consolidation of standards is particularly acute in the U.S., which "has stood somewhat apart from other jurisdictions, taking a less prescriptive approach to ESG disclosure, opting instead for a principles-based approach centered on the [SEC's] traditional materiality standard." BlackRock advocates that policy makers play a role in promoting better and more comparable ESG disclosure practices by aligning around common disclosure frameworks.