22 September, 2020
CFO taskforce reveals plan to boost UN Sustainable Development Goals
Last week we got the bad news that the world has failed to hit a single target designed to help save biodiversity on Earth. This week a group of chief financial officers (CFOs) has given the United Na...
7 April, 2020
No more business as usual: Professor Colin Mayer, Saïd Business School
Covid-19 has presented business with its biggest challenge since the financial crisis of 2008. Perhaps one of the most pressing questions is whether the development of “purposeful” businesses will...
21 January, 2020
How boards can help shape the future of capitalism
Like the captain and crew of RMS Titanic, corporate boards have often been distanced from emerging realities by rank, training and environmental intelligence. But there are early signals that the 2...
10 December, 2019
European agreement on sustainable business taxonomy divides opinion
European institutions have taken a step closer to agreeing definitions of what constitutes green business activity. The end of last week saw the commission president and the European Parliament rea...
9 December, 2019
Designing a suitable taxonomy for a sustainable future
The Sustainable Finance Action Plan is a milestone of the EU policy on issues relating to ESG and adaptation to climate change. A number of legislative proposals have accompanied the action plan in or...
23 October, 2019
Investors believe companies are ‘falling short’ on climate reporting
The pressure on companies to disclose more information about their climate-related issues was stepped up this week with a report from a UK watchdog revealing investor disappointment about the current ...
23 October, 2019
TCFD summit confirms climate risk should be your board’s priority
The recent global summit of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) made it clear that companies will increasingly be subject to challenge on management of climate risk by regula...
11 October, 2019
Better data and consolidated standards needed to drive ESG investing
When investors and their advisers gather there is a single recurring theme that arises again and again: environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. So it was in Paris this week as the gre...
8 October, 2019
Mark Carney predicts more action on climate-related risk disclosures
The pressure on companies to provide more and higher quality climate-related risk disclosures is only going to increase, according to the governor of the Bank of England.
30 September, 2019
