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It’s no new concept that sustainability can make our organisations, communities and planet much better places. But today, as organisations hone their strategies around greenhouse gases and energy use, it’s clearer than ever that well-trained, committed employees will make a huge difference. Training programs come in all shapes and sizes—and the behaviours employees learn they can apply at home as well.

The numbers demonstrate the increasing importance of ESG to the private equity world.

Have you started, or about to start your CDP response?  Do you believe your company’s actions are befitting a higher score than you are receiving? Now is the time to act.

In 2020, CDP A list grew to over 300 companies receiving an ‘A’ score and hitting the highest leadership level. This was a growth of the A list of over 40%! The responses are improving year on year and this year - with the improvements across the board, it’s likely that the bar will need to be raised this year. What does this mean? Well, those high scoring responses provided in 2020 will need to be improved further, just to maintain the same score as the prior year, and significant improvements will be required to increase your score.

CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) is known as the gold standard for environmental disclosure and runs the largest environmental reporting system globally. Over 590 investors with over US$110 trillion in assets specifically request companies to disclose through the CDP framework. The CDP framework is used by investors, companies, government bodies, cities, states and regions across the world.

What is GRESB?

The Global ESG Benchmark for Real Assets, known as GRESB, is an investor-led organisation that assesses and benchmarks the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of real estate and infrastructure entities. 

I recently had the pleasure of hosting a panel discussion at the Arab Federation of Exchanges, Virtual Saudi Conference 2021. I was joined by four fantastic panellists:

Founded in 2011, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) sets standards that establish, guide, and improve the disclosure of financially material sustainability information by companies to their investors. 

If you’re thinking “I’ve just started to get to grips with Scopes 1, 2, and 3, now there’s a Scope 4?!” you’re not alone. While scope categories for carbon accounting were introduced in 2001 through the first edition of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol corporate accounting standard, many professionals have only recently become familiar with the concept. In this article, we’ll discuss what Scope 4 emissions are and why they’re important, and we’ll touch on a new interpretation of the concept. 

GRI is one of the most commonly used ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting frameworks. But like most ESG frameworks, it can be complicated and confusing, especially for those who are new to the world of sustainability reporting.

What is CDP?

Formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP is a nonprofit organisation that runs a global disclosure system for companies and governments to report on their environmental performance.