Program

‘Transforming to a Net-Zero World’ 
Online Program by Global ESG

1. Understanding the basics (Agency, Government, NGOs)

  • UN SDGs, UN Global Impact
  • 2015 the Paris Climate Agreement, Europe’s Green Deal
  • ESG 1.0 to ESG 2.0
  • Net-zero and climate management, decarbonization path
  • Carbon emission trading system (ETS) in EU, the US

2. Regulators’ Perspectives (Agency, Government, NGOs)

  • ESG measurement and assessment
  • GRI standards,
  • Guidelines in EU and the US

3. Investors’ Perspectives (Finance, Investment sector)

  • shift from ESG investing to Impact Investing; does ESG integration translate into a positive real-world impact? investors are moving away from abstract scores into real-world impact measures on absolute basis
If a tabacco company has a high ESG score (providing jobs, take care of their employees), tradeoff between pluses and minuses that give a decent ESG score and profile, however, still excluded for obvious reasons by many big investors.
ESG integration does not lead to positive real-world impact. ESG consideration does not automatically lead to a portfolio of companies that are associated with a positive real-world impact. 
  • Sustainable Investing; requires many things over long time to build up expertise – IT, research, data challenges, implementation of investment processes
  • keywords : engagement, climate and biodiversity
  • complexities of carbon data:
Decarbonizing investment is challenging; investors needs to look at forward-looking metrics. The carbon footprint data is backward-looking, with an average time lapse of around 2 years. This data won’t tell the transition readiness of a company. Current form of carbon footprint data does not tell whether the company is going to decarbonize in the future. 
Data inconsistency is another issue. Multiple, overlapping sources have contradictory information. ESG scores are not measured, they are modelled by different agencies, meaning they are estimated and have room for error. 
Investors in EU are developing their own sectoral decarbonization pathway, looking at how a sector will decarbonize in the next decades. Key sectors to watch: Oil & gas, energy, transport, cement, buildings, iron and steel sectors.
  • Committing to net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions across assets by 2050?
  • safeguard economic, environmental, and social assets; prerequisite of a healthy economy and generation of attractive return in the future.ts by 2050?

4. ESG Management (Corporate)

  • Internalization of ESG
  • Sustainability Reporting, due diligence
  • Data management
  • Response to ESG assessment

5. ESG Business Strategy (Corporate)

  • Net-zero, carbon-neutral
  • Transforming business portfolio

6. Potential Greenwashing (Academic)

  • Case studies
  • Stakeholders’ perspectives