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Dr. Dorothy Maxwell Head of Sustainability Advisory
Séamus Higgins Senior Sustainability Manager
Aoife O'Donnell Senior Sustainability Manager
The ABCs of ESG
14th March, 2023
Sustainability for business is about measuring and managing the material environmental and social impacts of its activities, products and services.
ESG refers to the three factors, Environmental, Social and Governance considered when assessing the overall impact that a company has. ESG can be used as a framework that helps stakeholders understand how an organisation manages its risks and opportunities around sustainability issues.
ESG criteria can help to determine the future financial performance in terms of return and risk. Increasingly, access to capital is being tied to high ESG performance. Regulation is also driving shareholders to invest in high ESG performers - a trend that is challenging significant capital flows.
ESG related regulation and voluntary best practice frameworks, standards and initiatives continue to evolve, complete with their own jargon in the sustainability and finance domains. The vast number of ESG and sustainability related acronyms and terms are often referred to as an “alphabet soup”.
To support business cut through this complexity and navigate the “ABCs of ESG” Davy Horizons has defined the main acronyms and terms in their latest whitepaper.
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