Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

ESG data collected during EDCI’s inaugural year (2021 reporting cycle) provides useful guidance on the state of sustainability in PE portfolio companies, as well as areas of opportunity for improvement and development. Our analysis also unveiled areas where private firms had the upper hand.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer at City Developments Limited, outlines how the Singapore real estate firm’s sustainability reporting has evolved to communicate value and impact to stakeholders.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network. Moreover, measuring impact is still in its early development, with most funds using SDGs or qualitative assessments to measure their impact. Among companies, Impact Valuation as an approach to valuing a company’s impact on society has hit an inflexion point.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

There are two approaches to issuing gender bonds – one where budget and spending are assigned to activities for developing information tools, digital platforms or other initiatives for women; the other one measures the expected outcome of a project and analyses sustainability performance targets by a given date.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. There are four participants in VCMs: Project developers are the ones creating the carbon offset project. Verra or The Gold Standard ).

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The launch of GRI 101 also responds to some alarming reports, with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services having recently warned that biodiversity was declining in every region globally, while the World Economic Forum reported that 50% of the global economy was under threat due to biodiversity loss.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

Spanish bank BBVA echoed similar sentiments, encouraging the ISSB to prioritise biodiversity in its new two-year plan. It then prioritised land-use and land-use change – due to its “strong links” to climate goals, human rights and biodiversity – followed by pollution and resource exploitation.

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Just Capital

MAY 19, 2023

Business leaders like Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, and others have spoken of AI’s potential benefits: advancing medical and educational breakthroughs, expanding the global economy, creating climate change solutions, and changing the way people work.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

She makes an important contribution to that through her persuasive arguments and case studies, encouraging business leaders to move beyond a prioritization of short-term shareholder interest to shared purpose-driven, multi-stakeholder, long-term value creation.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It turns out that human na ture is the part of nature that citizens in developed economies have most painfully misunderstood. . Fortunately, a new dignity-first leadership paradigm is emerging across executive, enterprise and economic leadership. Ken Frazier, Chairman & CEO of Merck & Co.,

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