May 2024
Intermediate to advanced
282 pages
6h 3m
English
Content preview from Making the Connection
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The environment, especially climate change aspects, is considered the most pressing immediate concern in the “ESG world.” Indeed, if climatologists’ predictions are correct, there could be knock-on environmental implications (e.g., crop failure and habitat reduction) that lead directly to adverse social ramifications. So the “E” and “S” parts of ESG are, in principle, intertwined.
Many organizations have well-embedded environmental policies and associated action programs. This has been best known, and most identifiable, via “corporate responsibility” policies, which have been a feature of corporate mission statements since well before the turn of the century1.
Much of this began with pollution control ...