Introduction to the Anthropocene In a wonderful new book, professors Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin at London University College, make a convincing case that the Earth has entered the Anthropocene (combining the Greek words for ‘human’ and ‘recent’). Humans have literally become a force of nature. Meaning that human activity changes the Earth from one …
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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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Curbing climate change is arguably the most important non-financial topic your firm should be reporting efforts on; read here why (January 2018 post) and how (February 2018 post). To push yourself to become familiar with the numbers for climate change, internalize the range where the world enters a zone of uncertainty, see the table below …
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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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As a follow-up on last month’s post on business risk stemming from climate change, this post shows you how to incorporate thinking on climate change in your business processes and decisions. The list of ideas is by no means intended to be exhaustive, but it contains a number of ideas I stumbled on …
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Credit: Takver via Flickr Introduction: what The Economist has to say about climate change and business More than a year ago, we started off a series of blog posts on mandatory non-financial disclosures with a post on climate change. At that point, four risk groups of climate change were identified and suggestions were made on …
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Do you think the EU Directive on Disclosure of Non-Financial Information (follow this link) will seriously push the needle on sustainable practices? Or will it just be an exercise in box-ticking? Starting this year, over 6,000 companies in the EU will be required to disclose negative impacts caused by their business operations, including their policies …
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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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