Short answer: No. ESG — Environmental, Social, and Governance — is an investor-risk lens: a set of criteria used to assess how non-financial factors might affect a company’s financial performance and risk profile. Sustainability, in its original formulation, is a claim about what a company’s activity is doing to the world, independent of whether that […]
Category: ESG and CSR
ESG and Corporate Social Responsibility Risks | Circularity
Executive teams and corporate boards frequently treat ESG and corporate social responsibility as a defensive, compliance-driven exercise. When sustainability functions face restructuring or downsizing, leadership often defaults to maintaining polished annual reports and tracking basic carbon metrics. This surface-level activity ignores the deeper, more dangerous structural risks embedded directly within the core business model. Treating […]