D3. Recent Developments in CSR Metrics and Reporting

Current developments in CSR reporting standards by Roger Adams

Organisations are under increasing pressure to improve their levels of transparency. This presentation will focus on recent developments in reporting standards including the GRI (sustainability reporting), the IASB financial reporting), the Prince of Wales' (connected reporting) framework, the CDP (carbon disclosures) and the CDSB (climate change reporting) among others.



Why is ESG Investment inevitable and how will it impact the business community? by Robert Rubinstein

In the past 10 years, we have seen a continuous steady growth of ESG investment (investment that looks at environmental, social and governance issues as well as finance). This has happened in spite of all institutionalized inertia that should have prevented this; i.e. education, media, legislation, finance incentives, ignorance. Perhaps ESG is inevitable.