RE[align] and integrate ESG into your business strategy. ESG (environmental, social, and governance) refers to a set of standards used to measure an organisation’s environmental and social impact. Driven by ethical, regulatory, and commercial pressures, sustainability and ESG Reporting have become critical components of how modern organisations must operate. Organisations have a responsibility to monitor and minimise the negative impact of their operations and deliver positive social and environmental outcomes.
This session will serve as an introductory resource to sustainability & ESG reporting. First introducing the terms, key drivers and legislation, we’ll explore why sustainability reporting is paramount to a range of sectors and industries. We’ll provide a basic methodology and 6 steps to success that you can implement in your own business.
Presented by SustainIQ Co-Founder, Liam McEvoy, this interactive workshop will provide attendees with an easy to follow 6 step guide to getting started with sustainability and ESG reporting. Attendees can expect to learn about:
- Determine key drivers – The regulatory, commercial and ethical pressures that are driving ESG adoption, why they matter, and identifying the ones that matter to your business.
- Identifying what’s material – In preparation for the interactive workshop portion of the presentation, we’ll explore how you can identify what is material and relevant to your business and its stakeholders.
- Finding your baselines – Assessing your baseline and performing a gap analysis to identify what you need in your ESG strategy.
- Setting your strategy – Outlining your own ESG objectives and priorities and defining a strategy to support their delivery.
- Framework and implementation – Setting internal reporting standards and aligning with international frameworks.
- Measure, monitor, and report – Understanding and delivering ongoing reporting and measurement to ensure continuous improvement and success.
Following the event, attendees will be provided with access to our Six Step Guide eBook to support their organisations on their ongoing ESG Journey.
Presented by: Maria Diffley | Co-founder at SustainIQ
Having worked in the sustainability space for well over a decade, both Maria and her business partner Liam recognised the need for a solution which helped companies to navigate the complexities involved in measuring, monitoring and reporting on their Sustainability and ESG investments. In response, they created SustainIQ, an agile, integrated, real-time reporting tool which calculates a company’s impacts on the environment, local communities, and their people, through their products and supply chain. This data provides organisations with business intelligence that wasn’t previously being considered in strategic decision-making.
Prior to the establishment of SustainIQ, Maria worked with Business in the Community, providing support and advice on CR to the private, public and voluntary sectors. She also holds an MSc in Sustainability and CSR.
She is passionate about harnessing the power of business to positively impact the world and has advocated for long-term partnerships between business and community development organisations since her teens. She has helped with the capacity-building of many charitable and social enterprise organisations both locally in Northern Ireland and in the Developing World.
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