“Doing good and getting good from it”: ESG investing is booming business
Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) information aims to be transparent on the sustainability performance of a company and is considered as relevant information by all organizational stakeholders. More specifically, investors are using this information for impact investing as it’s shown that ESG companies financially outperform the non ESG companies. Next to this ESG companies show a better impact on the global acknowledged issues such as climate change. As ESG is booming, so are the issues. Unmatched data, compliance focuses, ESG washing and superficial ESG assessments by rating agencies. These issues show plenty of room for improvements within organizations. ESG should be in the core of the strategy and vision. Translated to product design and operations. Managed with internal teams and data-systems leading to internal insights and progress reports, which should be part of recurring Board and discussions. Being in the top of their industry is no longer enough for organizations to be more attractive for investors, they need to financially outperform the market in the long-run and to create the societal value of a company.
Impact measurement enables transition from ‘old’ economy to the ‘new’ green economy
How do you ensure that the old economy actually transforms into the new green economy? I think that is the most important question of the next 10 years. There has never been so much support for making our economy and business more sustainable and social. That support is among employees and customers of companies. But […]
Green Bonds, more successful than ever!
More and more companies are seeing an opportunity to finance their corporate investments by issuing a corporate bond because of low interest rates. And more and more (institutional) investors see the opportunity here to realize higher returns with limited risk. According to OECD, the value of the corporate bond market has doubled in 10 years. […]
6 starting positions to measure impact
Fortunately, things are going in the right direction with the COVID-19, fewer and fewer people seem to be getting sick. The social impact of the disease and especially of the lockdowns all over the world is enormous. The well-being of people, companies and society is under considerable pressure. It is important to realize that the […]
6 starting positions for measuring social impact
Fortunately, things are moving in the right direction with COVID-19; fewer and fewer people seem to be getting sick. The social impact of the disease and especially the lockdowns around the world are enormous. The well-being of people, businesses and society is under considerable pressure. It is important to realize that the economic downturn, is […]