ESG mindset : business resilience and sustainable growth

"Businesses who take environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) seriously can transform their companies, industries and economies worldwide. Learn how to think critically about ESG to ensure your company remains resilient with sustainable growth in the long term. ESG goes beyond decar...

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Main Author Sekol, Matthew (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London ; New York, NY : Kogan Page, [2024]
Subjects
Corporate governance.
Social responsibility of business.
Sustainable development.
Organizational resilience.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781398614253
9781398614246
9781398614260
Physical Description1 online zdroj

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • About the Author
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 01 Introduction to ESG
  • Defining ESG within your organization
  • Types of materiality and considerations of externalities
  • On the origin of ESG
  • The focus on finance reduces ESG's effectiveness
  • What ESG isn't
  • An ESG mindset may be just the thing
  • Notes
  • 02 ESG Data: Standards, Rating Agencies, and Value
  • The new ESG data supply chain
  • Measuring and managing
  • ESG data can deliver value
  • Notes
  • 03 Saving Your Company and Saving the Planet
  • Climate change, sustainability, and ESG
  • Transition risk
  • Climate risk
  • Should the "E" be split out?
  • Material Environmental issues
  • Notes
  • 04 The Social Effect: Tipping Points and Stakeholders
  • Friedman to Fink
  • Crises: The Social tipping points
  • Customers and non-customers: Social media amplification
  • Supply chain: Risk and forced labor issues
  • Social is in the middle for a reason
  • Notes
  • 05 Governance: ESG Leadership and the Board
  • Governance first: Challenges to long-term growth and risk
  • ESG analysis: Stakeholders and materiality
  • Governance last: Nothing gets past poor Governance
  • Notes
  • 06 The Dual Intersection Between Technology and ESG
  • Technology solving ESG issues
  • Technology as an ESG risk
  • Technology rating agencies and disclosures emerge
  • Think of Technology like the rest of ESG
  • Notes
  • 07 Mainstreaming ESG to Improve and Innovate
  • Intangible assets and value
  • Data, culture, and mainstreaming ESG
  • Improvements for what exists
  • Innovation for what's new
  • Notes
  • 08 Financial Services: Impact and ESG
  • Capital markets as a critical stakeholder
  • Banks finance change
  • Insurance is about risk
  • Two sides of a coin in Financial Services
  • Notes
  • 09 Criticism and Controversies Around ESG
  • Criticisms of ESG
  • Controversy!
  • Companies can use an ESG mindset as a defense
  • Mainstreaming ESG to address controversies
  • Notes
  • 10 Interconnected ESG Risks and Issues
  • Internally material: The interconnected nature of ESG at the pillar level
  • External pressure: The interconnected nature of outside ESG risk
  • An updated view on materiality for the company level
  • Internal issues, external crises, and systemic problems: Polycrisis!
  • Partnership on ESG: Antitrust laws and the dangers of greenhushing
  • Notes
  • 11 All Well and Good
  • Considering the scope: From global impact to local
  • Inspiration and impact through an ESG mindset
  • Intention through public benefit corporations and B corps
  • Influence, impact, and value chain improvement
  • Data, divestment, and engagement
  • Engaging at scale through industry collaboration
  • Notes
  • 12 The Future of ESG
  • Companies need to own ESG to fulfill its purpose
  • ESG moves from data to Technology
  • The evolution of current ESG trends will determine its near future

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