Course description

ESG is an internal and external framework used by investors and stakeholders to assess a company's risks and performance considering three key areas: environmental, social, and governance practices:

• Environmental: evaluates a company's impact on the environment, including climate change, resource depletion, pollution, and waste management practices.

• Social: focuses on a company's relationships with its people and society, including labour practices, diversity and inclusion, community engagement, human rights, and product safety.

• Governance: encompasses the system by which an organisation is controlled and operates, and the mechanisms by which it, and its people, are held to account. Ethics, risk management, compliance and administration are all elements of governance. It assesses the effectiveness of a company's leadership, board structure, risk management practices, ethical conduct, and transparency.