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ESG Acronyms and What They Mean

3BL Media

It can be challenging to keep up, which is why we’ve developed this guide as a tool to quickly catch up. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) The UNSDGs are 17 goals aimed at calling to action businesses and individuals in power to end poverty, protect the planet and create peace and prosperity by 2030.

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Defining Sustainable Economic Systems – Development vs Growth

Richard Matthews

Sustainable economies like these can help us to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This blend of free markets and state control is the dominant economic system in the vast majority of developed nations in the world today. Increasingly this also includes offshore renewable energy development.

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

The world fought back against the pandemic, and in just one year, developed four vaccines and immunized half of the world’s population. Despite poor coverage in developing countries (6%) and new variants bringing back lockdowns, we hope to go back soon to a new normality. 2021 Sustainability Summary.

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Unleashing Constant Partner Platform Innovations

Cisco CSR

We have automated all those steps and added real-time, integrated reporting. Now you can focus on value creation rather than administrative overhead. This is an important transition, and we are working carefully with you as we transition the funds in phases.

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ISSB’s First Sustainability Reporting Standards Target Granularity

Chris Hall

ISSB also announced plans to build on the industry-based standards development approach of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). SASB’s approach identifies sustainability disclosure topics that are most relevant to corporate enterprise value. . Connecting two pillars .

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Investors Need Sustainable Development Thinking

Chris Hall

Professor Carol A Adams of Durham University Business School calls for greater ambition by corporates and investors to address sustainable development including climate change. What is ‘integrated thinking and does it really benefit investors? The Value Reporting Foundation (VRF) would like us to think so.

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Can we finally standardize ESG standards?

GreenBiz

Consolidated ESG standards: Recently, four leading ESG standards organizations — GRI, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB); CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project); the Carbon Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB); and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) — declared their intent to collaborate.