Does your board have the ESG skills they need for future success?
2020 has been a pivotal year in which even sceptical leaders have been forced to reckon with ESG’s vital role in business strategy.
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While we can all agree that the word “unprecedented” is overused today, this year has seen several distressing events take place on a global scale—bushfires destroying homes and wildlife in Australia, a series of wildfires in the US, a global pandemic affecting all of us, and civil unrest on racial inequality ignited by the unjust killing of George Floyd.
Despite the fact that world economies ground to a halt as a result of Covid-19, investors have not slowed down their efforts to engage and improve the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices and disclosures of their portfolio companies. In fact, 2020 has been a pivotal
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