ESG: Knowledge and Resources

Company Secretarial Practice for PLCs

• Includes a section on ESG issues and non-financial reporting - Key things the Company Secretary needs to know
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Are you prepared for the UK Modern Slavery Act (2015) new compliance requirements?

• Identify what the legal requirements of the Modern Slavery Act are
• Describe the requirements of the UK Guidance on modern slavery reporting
• Understand what due diligence procedures should be met
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• Governance 2022 recordings - Includes the recording of the session 'ESG: what does it mean in the boardroom?'
• The Good Governance Guide to Boardroom Dynamics - Book
• Boardroom culture: ESG on the agenda - Webinar
• Getting menopause on the agenda - Podcast
• ESG: A maturity matrix for charities - White paper (requires a login to download)
• The Tom Morrison essay prize 2022 asked for submissions on Climate change: the existential threat of the century. Discuss the opportunity for the governance professional to be a part of the solution. View the first place and second place essays.

• How to plug the ESG competency gap - May 2024
• ESG meets ERM - May 2024
• Time to commit - April 2024
• Making an impact - February 2024
• Practise what you preach - February 2024
• ESG and sustainability committees - February 2024
• UN SDGs: Transforming our world to be a better place - January 2024 
• ESG enforcement - December 2023
• Nature-related risk - December 2023
• It will all come out in the wash - December 2023
• ESG reporting: where to next - December 2023
• Staff wellbeing and the S of ESG - October 2023
• Forced labour and the S of ESG - October 2023
• How should boards be responding to the TNFD recommendations - October 2023
• EU Green Taxonomy and the elephant in the room - September 2023
• The hallmarks of good governance and an effective ESG strategy - September 2023
• Safe space - psychological safety - September 2023
• The Green Claims Directive - September 2023
• Just right: finding the balance between greenwashing and green-hushing - September 2023
• ESG data – improving the route from companies to investors - August 2023
• Governance is a contact sport - June 2022
• Enough is enough - Imposter syndrome can hold us back from reaching our full potential - May 2022
• TCFD - the way forward - Take a look at the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures - April 2022.
• Operationalising ESG: A roadmap for organisations - April 2021

• Key takeaways from the ESG Summit - May 2024
• The boardroom of the future: stakeholder capitalism and engagement - November 2022
• Diversity on a board is a nice to have not a need to have – true or false? - October 2022
• Engaging boards with ESG-related risk - October 2022
• Benefits of engaging with ESG – pointers for governance professionals - October 2022
• How can you make sure that you're considering senior citizens in the office culture? - October 2022
• Using circular economy models and virtuous circles to build continuous improvements in governance - September 2022
• The globalisation of governance - September 2022
• The work-life hack to put your personal life back - August 2022
• Why is it important to have menopause on your organisational priority list? - July 2022
• ESG: ‘Don’t try and do everything’ - June 2022
• ESG: Driving the sustainability agenda – a global outlook - June 2022
• One way out of our debt: clean energy and social enterprise - May 2022
• Workplace wellbeing re-examined: could empathy and kindness be the lasting legacy of the pandemic? - May 2022
• Effective governance: the key to delivering ESG success? - April 2022
• Every day is Earth Day for companies committed to ESG and CSR - April 2022
• Why is ESG relevant to organisations with a social purpose? - April 2022
• Six things all companies need to know about ESG reporting - March 2022
• A voice for small and mid-caps on ESG - March 2022
• ESG – does the ‘S’ include slavery? - October 2021
• How modern governance meets the ESG imperative - June 2021
• Climate change governance: action, not words, will support the greatest reallocation of capital in history as we move to net zero - June 2021
• ESG and Brexit - April 2021
• ESG Rating schemes: Which to target, and how to do well - April 2021
• Three ESG lessons organisations should learn from COVID-19 - April 2021

• The United Nations - Sustainable Development Goals
• IFRS Foundation - International Sustainability Standards Board