The ESG Horizon

Business and climate change have mutual impacts on each other. Business influences climate change with climate-related reporting today laying more emphasis on different business models’ carbon footprint while climate change does sway business models to some extent with the reporting promoted by Task Force on Climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD) focusing on financial implications of climate change on business models.

Content development is the stage of transformation where all the materials and data being collected turn into the actual [...]

Data collection is a very time-consuming activity and requires collaborative efforts. It should be a customised and unique process [...]

According to the GRI standards, the sustainability report shall cover topics that: Reflect the reporting organisation’s significant economic, environmental, [...]

Stakeholder engagement, as a method to obtain stakeholder’s opinions and focus areas, is an essential part of preparing the [...]

GRI standards provide companies with a flexible and future-proof reporting structure, that is, the forward-looking and rigorous approach advocated by GRI ensures its process and topics can always remain up-to-date and relevant.

结合‘In Focus: Addressing Investor Needs in Business Reporting on the SDGs’, ‘Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide (2018)’, ESG reporting review 2018: The journey continues (KPMG)，以及近年来香港上市公司ESG报告的发展，本篇文章主要谈谈如何帮助企业在建立ESG管理体系的同时，将联合国可持续发展目标的概念带入企业决策，从而构建一个更全面的报告体系和投资者信息获取媒介。

To provide the right momentum to stimulate a new energy efficiency market where companies keep exploring and making commitment to carbon reduction, GCESG has done a research about the status quo of a wide range of listed companies in Hong Kong in terms of their performance on carbon emissions.

Major suppliers to McDonalds and KFC, including Chinese firm Fujian Sunner and Indian firm Venky’s, are among those graded “high risk”, both in the management of sustainability and in antibiotics stewardship in particular. 

The report released by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), underscores that while sustainability reporting is moving in the right direction, the pace of change needs to accelerate to ensure a prosperous and sustainable future.