The world needs globally accepted sustainability reporting standards to ensure transparent, comparable information for all stakeholders – businesses, investors, customers, employees, suppliers, regulators and governments. The quality of ESG reporting should be as high as it is for financial reporting and should be capable of being assured. This ensures a …
There is no one single definition for sustainability risks but most experts agree on two facts: sustainability risks aren’t simple to address and the scarcity and reliability of data to assess them are a common issue. According to the SFDR (sustainable finance disclosure regulation), “Sustainability risk means an environmental, social …
Everlasting growth has been the panacea of the socio-economic model we live in today, a logic not unlike the big bang theory expansion. However, this single idea is increasingly blamed for fueling the latest global economic crises and for aggravating the climate issues we face today. This criticism comes at …
Christmas is upon us, and we’re all ready for a nice family time, likely more intimate and quiet, in this very particular year. The COVID-19 pandemic turned our lives upside down for almost one year now and it was a wake-up call that will be hard to forget. And many …
Think of corporate responsibility. Then, situations linked to people, nature, pollution, climate change and philanthropy come to your mind. Now, think of technology, and smartphones, drones, virtual reality and, almost unavoidably, artificial intelligence are recalled. We tend to dissociate them because, in principle, they belong to different dimensions, the real …
Summer reads anyone? Definitely! Should we get started? The COVID-19 pandemic might be taunting our usual definition of good, deserving holidays and, while many of us may not be able to relax on a beach or gather with a crowd of friends on warm summer nights, that doesn’t mean we …
Carl Sagan, American astronomer, cosmologist and astrophysicist wisely said The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the …
Governance, in simple terms, is how a governing entity, regardless of its size, interacts and makes decisions to accomplish a goal. You may find dozens of definitions of it, more or less sophisticated, but they all come down to the same idea. Corporate governance is gaining traction in financial services, …
Tidal waves of global growth, our heavy dependence on fossil fuels, and our constant need for innovation have led us to a world of inconsistencies and widening gaps between underdeveloped and developed countries. Our world is fracturing, and the fractures are growing bigger and bigger. In a report released in …
Julia Gillard, who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Australian Labour Party from 2010 to 2013, once said “Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity. These in turn rely on the education of our people.” While Julia has a valid …
