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SUSTAINABILITY ZOOM meeting ... the chat dialog for a meeting on January 13th 2022 MISSING IMAGE Original article: Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | |||||||||
| From Sunil Raju to Everyone 12:18 PM Hello ma'am, is your company's name Pierre Strategies? I couldn't hear properly From Cindi Thompson to Everyone 12:20 PM It is Pure Strategies: https://purestrategies.com/ From Sunil Raju to Everyone 12:21 PM Thank you. From Yakubu Paiko to Everyone 12:29 PM @ Cindi Thompson for sharing this. Lots of insightful resources there. Much appreciated From Purvish Shah to Everyone 12:31 PM @Rubi : What has been the most painful part of this entire process for you? From Daniel Solymosi to Everyone 12:34 PM Rubi: how do you measure the progress of your clients? From Wilson Griffin to Everyone 12:35 PM trying a new room, hopefully this works better! From Alexis Salazar to Everyone 12:36 PM Organization culture is imperative to success for sustainability, especially for larger companies. Is this something you look at when consulting with these companies? How do you go about that? From Purvish Shah to Everyone 12:36 PM Thanks From Me to Everyone 12:37 PM I am a very old accountant … corporate financial accountancy has been stuck in the 19th century all my life, but without sustainability numbers the corporate world of banking and operations will continue to be all talk and little movement at scale … my dream is TrueValueMetrics.org that aims to number society, environment and economy (business) … Peter Burgess From Shane Garvey to Everyone 12:40 PM Is there any data sets or resources we can reference that shows companies with sustainability initiatives have had better growth and success vs those that have not put resources to these initiatives? From Eliza Erskine to Everyone 12:42 PM hi Shane- here’s a document I’ve compiled with lots of data and examples: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qs2Dtr-d43HdGeu_ojKt1eYBxTFb7sFN-kOS_vJ-A28/view From Marwa Kamel to Everyone 12:42 PM How would Biden's infrastructure bill change the landscape in corporate responsibility and/or provide access to funding? From Amy Curtis to Everyone 12:42 PM Science Based Targets: https://sciencebasedtargets.org/ From Me to Everyone 12:44 PM The ESG world argues that better ESG delivers better profit results but studiously avoids numbering it by talking about governance rather than numbering profits … in my view this is not be accident … Peter Burgess From Cindi Thompson to Everyone 12:44 PM Thanks for sharing that, Eliza, looks awesome! From Amy Curtis to Everyone 12:45 PM ROSI: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/center-sustainable-business/research/return-sustainability-investment-rosi From Marion Murphy to Everyone 12:45 PM All great information thank you! From Bhairevi Aiyer to Everyone 12:45 PM Could you elaborate on monetizing assumptions? From Cindi Thompson to Everyone 12:45 PM Love that articulation - “all spreadsheets come with assumptions” We need to expose those more clearly From Amy Curtis to Everyone 12:46 PM B Corps: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/ From Shane Garvey to Everyone 12:48 PM Thank you Eliza! Thank you Amy! From Me to Everyone 12:48 PM Monetizing social and environmental impact in the same way that economic profit is monetized has been tried for decades and does not work. The answer is going to be a widely accepted set of indeces From Eliza Erskine to Everyone 12:50 PM sustainability From Sunil Raju to Everyone 12:18 PM Hello ma'am, is your company's name Pierre Strategies? I couldn't hear properly From Cindi Thompson to Everyone 12:20 PM It is Pure Strategies: https://purestrategies.com/ From Sunil Raju to Everyone 12:21 PM Thank you. From Yakubu Paiko to Everyone 12:29 PM @ Cindi Thompson for sharing this. Lots of insightful resources there. Much appreciated From Purvish Shah to Everyone 12:31 PM @Rubi : What has been the most painful part of this entire process for you? From Daniel Solymosi to Everyone 12:34 PM Rubi: how do you measure the progress of your clients? From Wilson Griffin to Everyone 12:35 PM trying a new room, hopefully this works better! From Alexis Salazar to Everyone 12:36 PM Organization culture is imperative to success for sustainability, especially for larger companies. Is this something you look at when consulting with these companies? How do you go about that? From Purvish Shah to Everyone 12:36 PM Thanks From Me to Everyone 12:37 PM I am a very old accountant … corporate financial accountancy has been stuck in the 19th century all my life, but without sustainability numbers the corporate world of banking and operations will continue to be all talk and little movement at scale … my dream is TrueValueMetrics.org that aims to number society, environment and economy (business) … Peter Burgess From Shane Garvey to Everyone 12:40 PM Is there any data sets or resources we can reference that shows companies with sustainability initiatives have had better growth and success vs those that have not put resources to these initiatives? From Eliza Erskine to Everyone 12:42 PM hi Shane- here’s a document I’ve compiled with lots of data and examples: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qs2Dtr-d43HdGeu_ojKt1eYBxTFb7sFN-kOS_vJ-A28/view From Marwa Kamel to Everyone 12:42 PM How would Biden's infrastructure bill change the landscape in corporate responsibility and/or provide access to funding? From Amy Curtis to Everyone 12:42 PM Science Based Targets: https://sciencebasedtargets.org/ From Me to Everyone 12:44 PM The ESG world argues that better ESG delivers better profit results but studiously avoids numbering it by talking about governance rather than numbering profits … in my view this is not be accident … Peter Burgess From Cindi Thompson to Everyone 12:44 PM Thanks for sharing that, Eliza, looks awesome! From Amy Curtis to Everyone 12:45 PM ROSI: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/center-sustainable-business/research/return-sustainability-investment-rosi From Marion Murphy to Everyone 12:45 PM All great information thank you! From Bhairevi Aiyer to Everyone 12:45 PM Could you elaborate on monetizing assumptions? From Cindi Thompson to Everyone 12:45 PM Love that articulation - “all spreadsheets come with assumptions” We need to expose those more clearly From Amy Curtis to Everyone 12:46 PM B Corps: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/ From Shane Garvey to Everyone 12:48 PM Thank you Eliza! Thank you Amy! From Me to Everyone 12:48 PM Monetizing social and environmental impact in the same way that economic profit is monetized has been tried for decades and does not work. The answer is going to be a widely accepted set of indeces From Eliza Erskine to Everyone 12:50 PM my favorite ROSI explainer: https://hbr.org/2021/01/how-to-talk-to-your-cfo-about-sustainability From Alexis Salazar to Everyone 12:54 PM Great information! Thank you all. :) From Jennifer Weber to Everyone 12:56 PM I had to make myself a cheat sheet with all the acronyms when I started learning about climate ;) From Me to Everyone 12:57 PM Sustainability is VERY important. Success will happen when EVERY actor has become engaged. The challenge is that too many BIG actors are actively opposed to sustainable socio-enviro-economic outcomes. Banking and finance and the energy sector are really big drivers of unsustainability !!!!!!!!! From Joseph Gelfer to Everyone 12:57 PM joseph@ecotopiancareers.com From Joseph Gelfer to Everyone 12:57 PM Thanks to all the speakers, and have a great day to everyone else :) Feel free to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephgelfer/ joseph@ecotopiancareers.com | |||||||||