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ESG standard setting and reporting are integral to the corporate world’s transition toward net zero: whether they encourage businesses to reflect and improve on their ESG practices, or sanction industry laggards.
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Nicola Stopps
08.08.2022
Reset Connect, the UK's leading Sustainability and Net-Zero Event, established to bridge the gaps between sustainability change-makers, business leaders, government, and funding. After the event we spoke to Mark Scanlon, CEO of Tenet Group about his take ways and the realisation that ESG investment is more than a trend.
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Mark Scanlon
01.08.2022
Startups are a common occurrence here in the UK. Many of us want to start our own businesses - 65% in fact. So, it should come as no surprise that in the first half of 2021, nearly 80 new businesses were registered in the UK every hour.
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Daniel Groves
02.07.2022
Have you measured your ESG score lately? Should you care? Well, if you are startup or a scaleup, your ESG score, such as your product or service’s adherence to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is likely to impact your business’s ability to fundraise and grow.
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Monica Johnson
27.06.2022
The Finnish parliament has approved the Climate Change Act, which mandates the country to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 and carbon negativity by 2040.
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Anja Pries
13.06.2022
Although it seems ESG’s rise to the top of the news agenda was swift, focus on its fundamental elements – Environment, Social, and Corporate Governance – are nothing new. Previously understood through the term ‘CSR’ or corporate social responsibility, many agree that ESG is merely the newest edition in a constant rebrand of the same principles. And in extreme cases, it’s considered a deceptive way of boosting corporate reputation: a guise distracting the industry from a lack of action being taken.
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Nicola Stopps
07.06.2022
From April 2022, a key policy update will make reporting on the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) mandatory by law in the UK, compelling over 1,300 UK companies to disclose information in alignment with the guidelines.
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Olivia O’Brien
17.05.2022
Growing concern around issues such as climate change has seen Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) continue to rise in importance. The recent announcement from Ernst & Young LLP, of a £100M investment in EY Carbon, its dedicated UK sustainability consulting business, only serves to highlight just how much of a priority ESG is for many organisations.
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Jessica Camus
19.04.2022
Almost all VCs as well as more established funds have created portfolios for which ESG factors have been integrated into the investment process, and that’s great news for society and the planet. As ESG investing has taken off, the whole field has become more specialised, as investors look more deeply into specific sectors and technologies that can do the most good. For 2022 and beyond, we’re seeing four major trends that we believe will garner interest in the ESG investing community.
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Gen Tsuchikawa
11.04.2022
As the war in Ukraine rages, finance professionals on Wall Street and in Europe recently attracted outrage by suggesting that investing in arms manufacturers should be treated as ethical investing. In the fight against tyranny, they argued that such an investment “preserves peace and global stability” and defends “the values of liberal democracies”. As such, it belongs in the increasingly lucrative investment category known as ESG or environmental, social and governance.
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Marc Lepere
29.03.2022
As part of our new quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Pierre Yves-Paslier, cofounder at Notpla, about the sustainable offering of seaweed, juggling team growth and scaling up a business, and the problem with common-use packaging.
29.03.2022
Carbon emissions disclosure and ESG reporting is becoming mandatory for all businesses as part of the push for net-zero. Our investigation reveals overcharging and greenwashing at the heart of this new market.
21.03.2022
As we move into a post-pandemic business landscape, how does ESG (environmental, social and governance) factor into the new digital transformation roadmaps enterprises are re-drawing in the wake of COVID-19?
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Dave Howell
21.03.2022
Curation and Maddyness have created Join the Dots, a platform dedicated to ESG that highlights the need for businesses to look at all three in correlation. At our launch event, we invited three experts to discuss the E, the S and the G along with a moderator. The result? A masterclass in how joined up thinking can drive both a sustainable and profitable business.
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Marc Lepere
17.03.2022
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