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ESG/sustainability professionals are typically unfamiliar with risk management as its own discipline, many times developing their own risk benchmarks, tolerance levels and values in a vacuum, straining credibility and creating obstacles for internal acceptance. This Guidebook presents a methodology using traditional risk management tools, leveraging hard data and established internal company risk benchmarks to develop credible risk values and ROI on avoiding those risks.
Practical Methodology for Sustainability ROI Using Company-Specific Business Fundamentals Guidebook
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An adaptation of our eleven-part podcast series designed to help onboard new ESG professionals quickly by giving an overview of major ESG subject areas, concepts and terms along with practical guidance on how to adapt to working in ESG.
The ABCs of ESG
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It is absolutely critical for ESG/sustainability professionals to communicate effectively. This Guidebook covers how to develop a credible hard dollar business case for initiatives and how to simplify internal messaging and discussions to improve your chances of success.
Guidebook – Simplifying ESG/Sustainability Business Value
In today’s world that recognizes the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion, revisiting our language and its impact is paramount to moving the needle toward a more inclusive society. This Guidebook is intended to help readers identify biased or prejudicial words and phrases and replace them with neutral ones.
Say This Instead Guidebook
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The varied nature of ESG can make management of litigation risks
difficult. This guidebook presents a broad scope of ESG litigation and
explains core concepts that will help you assess your company’s risk
areas and take steps to mitigate your litigation exposure.
Evaluating and Managing ESG Litigation Risks Guidebook
This Guidebook focuses on SB 261 — Greenhouse Gases: Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (“the Act”). The Act is the first regulatory disclosure mandate in the U.S. explicitly for financial risks of climate-related exposures to companies.
California Climate-Related Financial Risk Disclosure (SB 261) Guidebook
This Guidebook focuses on SB 253 — Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (“the Act”). The Act defers much to new rules that must be adopted on or before January 1, 2025, with the first reports beginning in 2026 and annually thereafter.
California Corporate Greenhouse Gas Disclosure (SB 253) Guidebook
Here are 10 practical tips on how ESG leaders/staff — who may be
unfamiliar with working alongside their boards — can maximize the
effectiveness of their presentations, messaging and overall communication
to boards.
10 Tips for How ESG Leadership and Staff Can Support Company Boards Guidebook
This guidebook is split into two parts, the first discusses materiality in its various forms the second dives deep into step-by-step instructions for designing and implementing an ESG Materiality Assessment.
How to Conduct an ESG Materiality/Double Materiality Assessment Guidebook
Board oversight of ESG issues — or the lack thereof — has become a hot topic. Pressure is mounting for companies to ensure they have good governance practices. Use this guidebook to learn how to utilize your Audit Committee in ESG to oversee data, frameworks, processes, and risk management.
The Role of the Audit Committee in ESG Oversight
The FTC regulates how US companies market their products. Companies that make misleading or deceptive marketing statements can have enforcement actions brought against them. Use this guide to learn what the FTC expects regarding environmental marketing and how to avoid regulatory action and civil litigation.
Using the FTC’s Green Guides for Marketing
By heightening director awareness of ESG issues and encouraging boards to integrate ESG considerations into their decision and policy-making processes, boards can build a working knowledge of the ESG risks and opportunities relevant to their business.
Increasing Board ESG Competence
Navigating the new complex world of sustainability & ESG using practical business approaches, good data, and plain language.
Killing Sustainability
Risk reduction, or something to that effect, is among the claimed benefits of corporate ESG programs and initiatives. While this appears to make sense on its face, there are hidden traps when attempting to quantify risk reduction values of ESG.
E&S Risk Reduction Concepts and Valuations Guidebook
ESG professionals must be prepared for a certain amount of internal negativity based solely on the perception by others in the organization. This guidebook is intended to help evaluate various aspects of staffing considerations in setting up your ESG program to maximize the potential for success.
Considerations in ESG Staffing Guidebook
Without a common basis or language for doing so, many different approaches developed in the way sustainability/ESG matters are communicated. This handbook provides updated guidance on communicating the business value of ESG initiatives to others in a way that results in a higher likelihood of success.
Communicating ESG Value Guidebook
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