Informational ESG - Environment, Social & Governance issues gaining ground in the Business World

Sidney Vianna · Apr 30, 2021

ESG issues are gaining a lot of ground in the corporate world. Issues such as sustainable financing and sustainability reports are occupying time and space in the boardroom.

What are Covers seeing concerning this in your own organizations?

fabiogms · Jun 5, 2021

this is a question that I cannot answer. CSR/SD might be part of the routing jobs of the board. If you don't agree to take this work as part of routine work, then trouble comes. The goals of the board might have changed already, not only on economic indicates...

John Broomfield · Jun 28, 2021

It’s good for us to have the opportunity to help our chief execs to assure the quality of our organization’s fulfillment of its social responsibilities.

Most of us would do this by further developing our management systems.

gpainter · Jun 29, 2021

I went from Quality/ISO to Director of Sustainability. People/Planet/ Profit or Social/ Environmental/ Economic. There is a BIFMA Level Standard that deals with it. Big with the A & D community. Getting ready to host a seminar on supply chain diversity. If you make a product you are probably dealing with it. How does your product and process affect planet Earth and its stakeholders from cradle to grave, hopefully no grave! DEI is a big part of the overall equation

Sidney Vianna · Jun 29, 2021

gpainter said:
There is a BIFMA Level Standard that deals with it.

Isn't that specifically for the Furniture Supply Chain? From https://www.bifma.org/page/level

LEVEL® is the third-party certification program for the furniture industry's multi-attribute, sustainability standard. The ANSI/BIFMA e3 Furniture Sustainability Standard was created to deliver an open and holistic means of evaluating and communicating the environmental and social impacts of furniture products in the built environment.

Taking into account a product's environmental impacts (materials selected, energy usage, etc.), health and wellness impacts, and a company's social actions among numerous other impacts, LEVEL addresses how a product is sustainable from multiple perspectives.

gpainter · Jun 29, 2021

e3 is for furniture but you can virtually any product in and use it. e3 is the standard and Level is the certification scheme.

Valli · Jul 12, 2021

Sidney Vianna said:
ESG issues are gaining a lot of ground in the corporate world. Issues such as sustainable financing and sustainability reports are occupying time and space in the boardroom.

What are Covers seeing concerning this in your own organizations?

Hi,

Even I am looking for some insight and learn from implementation experience and challenges overcome by others in his group.

gpainter · Jul 13, 2021

Start by listing what you are doing. Social areas are a good start. When i started in sustainability there was not a lot going on and each year it continues to grow and more are asking about it. What are you doing for the people (social), planet (environmental) and profit (economic) Many times the hard part is profit- this all has to be done at some sort of profit. Either cash and/or beneficial, think of it as a 3 legged stool- as a leg gets shorter or goes missing it becomes hard to use the stool

Mike S. · Jul 13, 2021

I've seen no change in the last 2 years at my company, and I have not seen our customers' supplier surveys addressing it, either.

Randy · Jul 13, 2021

This is what I guess is more of the reality with sustainability & social accountability in a lot of business environments....

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition "131. If it gets you profit, sell your own mother"

Profit will win out every time, nobody does anything to be awarded with nothing more than a warm fuzzy.

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