Learn to understand ESG strategically and pragmatically with these newly produced Vignette Lectures from the CSR ESG Institute.
ESG has rapidly become one of the most critical issues facing business today. Yet, much of the information surrounding it, especially how to understand and use it strategically, is obtuse, opaque and totally irrelevant for the vast majority if businesses.
At the CSR ESG Institute, our mission is to assist businesses to understand and use ESG as a strategic, implementable value-creation tool.
We have just produced a series of Vignette Lectures on ESG. As a subscriber you have early access, even before they are all published on the CSR ESG Video Channel
If you would like to learn more about how we can help you and your business with ESG and Sustainability issues, reporting, strategy, policy and more, please email me directly by clicking here
How to do an ESG Report
An ESG Report can be part of a strategic communication plan to help business increase the value they receive from ESG and Sustainability investments
In this Vignette Lecture Professor Dunn provides a mini-course on how to create an ESG Impact Report.
ESG & Sustainable Finance
This is not a “save the world” move by finance, but simply represents hard-nosed risk management. Businesses not addressing ESG, sustainability, social impact and environmental issues are simply riskier investments.
In this Vignette Lecture Professor Dunn provides a pragmatic mini-course on how to understand and succeed in the rapidly evolving ESG and Sustainable Finance space.
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ESG Strategy & Policy
Most have either defaulted to an ad-hoc, reactionary approach that is often divorced from strategic value considerations, or have long, complex, impractical policies and strategies that were developed, often at great cost, and then relegated to gather dust on shelves and in obscure corners of websites.
In this Vignette Lecture Professor Dunn provides a mini-course on how to develop pragmatic, usable ESG Strategy and Policy.
You can learn more in this recent blog https://bit.ly/3K5qA7z
ESG & Sustainability Metrics
In this Vignette Lecture Professor Dunn provides a mini-course on how to develop a strategic, but pragmatic ESG & Sustainability Metrics plan.
ESG Impact Communications
Communications should be strategic, done with humility and speak to value created and those that help you to create that value
In this Vignette Lecture Professor Dunn provides a pragmatic mini-course on how to understand and succeed in the rapidly evolving ESG and Sustainable Finance space.
How to do an ESG SWOT
Professor Dunn urges business to focus on ESG Value and Impact, understanding value propositions and how to align business value with ESG Impact.
A systematic SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis can identify a value-centric path forward.
In this Vignette Lecture Professor Dunn provides a mini-course on how to conduct an ESG SWOT.
ESG & Sustainability Training
Expectations of social performance, environmental stewardship and corporate governance are increasing rapidly, driven by growing interest from investor, regulator, market, employee, community and other stakeholders.
These issues can be transformed into value-creating strategic advantages, if organizations invest in their internal capacity and capabilities.
In this Vignette Lecture Professor Dunn discusses some of the keys to using training to build that capacity and capabilities.
If you enjoyed these, check out the CSR ESG Video Channel for other videos related to CSR, ESG, Sustainability and creating value in the space where business meets community
If you would like to learn more about how we can help you and your business with ESG and Sustainability issues, reporting, strategy, policy and more, please email me directly by clicking here
ESG, Sustainability & CSR should be as much a business value driver as it is a social and environmental value driver. If it gets out of balance it creates risk and makes the sustainability and indeed, even the business itself, potentially less sustainable.
Business is about creating value. CSR, ESG and Sustainability are also about creating value; value for society, for environment and for shareholders.
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Sustainability Impact metrics can waste time, money and goodwill. Lots of it. Be strategic. Learn to measure and manage the meaningful. Meaningful to your project, to your stakeholders and aligned value propositions. Don’t be lured into complex metrics that don’t support your path to value.
Value to you and your stakeholders *internal and external* must be the foundation of metrics and management systems. Don’t even think of metrics until you understand your value propositions and the internal and external value they represent.
Get this right and your metrics and management systems will help you to create more value, do it more efficiently and facilitate internal and external stakeholder relations at the same time.
