esg solutions
London
A warm welcome to our website visitors! Environmental, Social and Governance
(ESG) factors allow businesses to measure the sustainability credentials and the
corporate impacts of an investment, typically through benchmarking of
non-financial performance against peers. In an evolving context where
stakeholders become even more important than shareholders, ESG unveils the
integrated value of an asset, beyond its short-term financial performance, based
on the associated environmental and social impacts and outcomes. This concept is
not new. In the 1990s the industry used to refer to it as the "triple bottom
line" (i.e. People, Planet and Profit) as opposed to the "single bottom line"
represented by the figure usually recorded in traditional business accounting at
the end of a profit and loss statement. Now, pushed by threats such as climate
change and biodiversity collapse along with the rising influence of Generation Y
("Millennials") who expect more environmental and social responsibility from the
companies they work for and buy from, investment managers have decisively turned
their undivided attention to ESG and sustainable developments that allow not
just the economy, but also the society and the environment to thrive.
