Sustainability

Jolene Abshire, Sector Head for Development Organisations, Absa Group, discusses the shifting dynamics of donor funding for Africa in recent years, explaining how moving from traditional aid to trade-centric models can help the continent to support its own...

Chris King (Dukes & King) shares actionable insights for treasurers from the the ACT’s recent Annual Conference.

A four-way partnership involving Standard Chartered aims to promote customer loyalty and social responsibility while defining a blueprint for scalable growth through co-creation.

The framework will help clients assess and monitor the environmental and social impacts of their day-to-day working capital, trade, and liquidity.

A recent innovative framework developed by Societe Generale can help to increase transparency and credibility in ESG standardisation.

Terence Yong and Sameer Khan discuss recent and anticipated sustainability trends in Asian supply chains.

Experts from FIS and PwC discuss the latest compliance issues and how their firm’s respective work helps firms model and assess their risk.

Alex Griffiths (Fitch Ratings) discusses climate-related assessments and ratings, and the delivery of a more appropriate model.

Eleanor Hill (TMI) invites Javier Guijarro (PwC) to explore why an ESG standardisation disconnect exists, and identifies the barriers holding treasurers back from formalising ESG approaches.

Current climate-change scenarios, while effective for policy development, are of little use to investors, and could even be increasing jeopardy. TMI talks to a climate risk scientist from the EDHEC Risk Climate Institute about the issue, and a possible...

Marina Petroleka, Global Head of Research, Sustainable Fitch, discusses green, social and sustainability bonds’ contribution to environmental and/or social impacts and the level of transparency and ambition in project or target selection, based on Sustainable...

The ACT held its second annual ESG Conference on 21 November to address the the drive towards green practices and net zero.