The second installment in an effort to distill relevant ESG-topics from The Economist has notable differences from the first effort (see here). Digging through the second series of four months of articles (May to August), I found that: climate change remains the number one topic; green technology is in firm second place; governance more or …
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We wrote about integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG-) risks into your overall risk management framework before, see blog post Feb2018. This short video shows you why this is so important to businesses nowadays: The Reporting Exchange (an exhaustive source of information for anyone preparing sustainability reports) and COSO (organization that supplies risk management models …
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Digging through the first four months of The Economist for relevant ESG-articles, I thought it would be nice to group the articles and see which groups get the most coverage in this highly regarded newspaper. My effort in the form of a Materiality Matrix is shown above, with the number of articles per topic on …
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This post is about the translation of the EU regulation on disclosure of non-financial information to a Dutch national regulation; this entry will, therefore, be in Dutch. 1. Welke organisaties moeten aan de wet bekendmaking NFI voldoen? Organisaties van openbaar belang (beursgenoteerde ondernemingen, banken, verzekeraars en kredietinstellingen) met meer dan 500 werknemers, een balanswaarde groter …
Veel gestelde vragen rondom de Wet bekendmaking niet-financiële informatie (NFI) Read More »
Introduction This ‘What Every Manager Should Know About’-series is intended for managers whose businesses have to disclose (or feel the need or pressure to disclose) non-financial information. The needs or pressures to disclose non-financial information are manifold. Regulatory compliance such as EU directive 2014/95/EU, NGO pressure, ESG-risk management, demands from investors, and many other factors …
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Introduction Now that large corporates have to adhere to EU regulation 2014/95/EU, managers should be more familiar with a number of non-financial topics. The EU regulation on the disclosure of non-financial information asks firms to provide information on environmental, social and employee matters, respect for human rights, anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters. In this post, the …
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As your organization is getting ready for the implementation of EU guideline 2014/95/EU on the disclosure of non-financial information, I hand you a series of blog posts on non-financial topics that business managers might be less familiar with. My aim for this series of posts is twofold: First, to give you insight into concepts that …
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