CHAPTER FOUR Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability

Sital Cheema and Monica Langa

DOI: 10.4324/9781003142850-4

Introduction

Environment, social, and governance (ESG) requirements together with climate change and sustainability are topics that boards need to be aware of. The legal, regulatory, and reporting requirements in relation to climate change and sustainability are changing. Going forward, boards will increasingly require the skills to ask the “right” questions, in order to do so the collective knowledge and understanding of directors will need to increase or organisations may choose to add specialist knowledge by making new appointments to the board. We will aim to demystify a topic which is often wrapped up in ...

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