I very much enjoyed my recent podcast conversation with Matt Orsagh, Chief Content Officer, ED4S and Nawar, Alsaadi, Founder & CEO, Kanata Advisors and Advisor to ED4S, and share some of the highlights below.
It matters to companies because their stakeholders are asking and taking ESG performance into consideration when making decisions that affect the company.
Stakeholders are largely business counterparts, like customers, investors, consumers, employees, governments, NGOs, and in some cases specific local communities
I believe it's because of the growing awareness of two things:
Sustainability maturity is a spectrum, every company is different.
I would say the biggest hurdle is companies still being unaware or not understanding why they’re being asked to report.
A common mistake is to see this as a compliance exercise (whether regulations or a customer request) and thinking it’s a once-and-done activity.
And for those companies that have someone on the inside who does ‘get it’, who wants to embrace the change, the biggest challenge is lack of resources — which is usually an indication that the senior most level of the company hasn’t ‘gotten it’ yet.
Generally speaking, I look for the following characteristics in assessing a report:
Companies that have been through a few rounds of reporting or that engage with their stakeholders understand it’s not merely a compliance exercise.
However, most companies still see reporting as a standalone exercise, not as an accountability mechanism that's part of the management process.
But that’s the goal, because that’s where the value is for companies, when they properly manage their material issues.
I think we’re generally on the right track with mandatory, standardized, audited, and digitized disclosures (which is exactly what the CSRD is bringing). We just need to do it a lot faster.
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