Biodiversity Impacts Framework for Enterprise and Portfolios
Over the last decade, “TEEB for Business” became a favoured reference for thousands of businesses to identify, explore, quantify, value and manage their impacts and dependence on nature. TEEB for Business had emphasised that “it is important to look beyond direct impacts and dependence, to consider the indirect”, however, there is as yet no standardised […]
Recasting ESG – Separating Drivers from Impacts
The building blocks of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics were never intended to be equal or commensurable. Good governance is a driver of positive environmental and social outcomes and impacts, rather than the impact itself. Yet the desire to create marketability for products based around ESG ratings has led to a distortion of their […]
Manage What You Measure: US Sustainability Trends and Benchmarks
Fund managers returning to their desks following the Independence Day barbecues, were most likely unaware that each million dollars they commit to a well-known US index of the 500 top US companies generates $3,700 of negative environmental impact from companies’ operations alone. These same investors may have been less surprised to discover that nearly 70% […]
