Episode 4: Sustainable Business, ESG and the SDGs
ESG Insights: A podcast from ESG Partners
Release Date: 08/29/2022
Episode 5: How companies can navigate (and leverage) Canada’s new sustainability standards
ESG Insights: A podcast from ESG Partners
Welcome back to ESG Insights! We’re glad to be back with you after our hiatus to explore more of the critical environmental, social, and governance issues that are impacting business and the world around us. Today’s topic: the release of Canada’s first sustainability standards, and what they mean for Canadian businesses. The Canadian Sustainability Disclosure Standards (or CSDS for short), released in December 2024, were designed to: - Address growing demand for a consistent, credible sustainability framework in Canada - Drive transparency and accountability within...
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Episode 4: Sustainable Business, ESG and the SDGs
ESG Insights: A podcast from ESG Partners
There is a growing awareness around the critical need for companies to adopt sustainable business practices, and ESG has been gaining momentum as a way to connect financial performance with social and environmental outcomes. Future-focused organizations are moving beyond incremental change, to strategic and operational shifts that can be measured, tracked and communicated. In this episode of ESG Insights, we’re joined by , co-founder of the Japanese based coalition, Read the Air () and author of Leading Sustainably: The path to sustainable business and how the SDGs changed...
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Episode 3: Creating Resilient Supply Chains through Diversity and Inclusion
ESG Insights: A podcast from ESG Partners
Daily headlines remind us of the disruption in global supply chains all over the world, impacting virtually every industry and each one of us in some way. Businesses are responding with innovative solutions to address these challenges. In this episode of ESG Insights, I am joined by Cassandra Dorrington, President & CEO of the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC). CAMSC helps address supply chain challenges by facilitating the growth of Aboriginal and minority owned businesses, by connecting them to procurement opportunities with companies and governments committed to...
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Episode 2: The Critical Role of ESG in Venture Capital
ESG Insights: A podcast from ESG Partners
Venture capital is a vital part of the financial ecosystem and a significant engine for job creation and innovation. It is extremely influential in how we will all live in the future, plays a critical role by supporting the next generation of business leaders and companies, and it funds innovation to advance technological solutions that may help solve some of society’s greatest challenges. While ESG has become increasingly mainstream for investors as part of a broader wave to embrace purpose and stakeholder capitalism, ESG adoption has tended to lag in venture capital....
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Episode 1: Nature and Biodiversity: A C-Suite Conversation
ESG Insights: A podcast from ESG Partners
COP26 assembled our global leaders in Glasgow to tackle the climate crisis. On Saturday, November 6, nature and sustainable land use take center-stage as critical components in our global action toward climate change. Research in 2020 by the World Economic Forum found that US$44 trillion of economic value – more than half of the world's total GDP – is dependent on nature and the services it provides. The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is calling nature loss “a planetary emergency”. In this episode of ESG Insights, I am joined by Gary Zed, Founder and...
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ESG Insights: A podcast from ESG Partners
ESG Insights is a podcast from ESG Partners that explores the environmental, social and governance issues shaping business and the world around us. In each episode, host Nancy Foran, President and Founder of ESG Partners, will engage with business leaders and knowledge experts to examine the challenges, risks and opportunities impacting organizational priorities and value creation. For more information on ESG Partners, please visit www.esgpartners.ca or LinkedIn/ESG Partners.
info_outlineThere is a growing awareness around the critical need for companies to adopt sustainable business practices, and ESG has been gaining momentum as a way to connect financial performance with social and environmental outcomes. Future-focused organizations are moving beyond incremental change, to strategic and operational shifts that can be measured, tracked and communicated.
In this episode of ESG Insights, we’re joined by Trista Bridges, co-founder of the Japanese based coalition, Read the Air (Business, Sustainability & the SDGs | Read the Air | Japan) and author of Leading Sustainably: The path to sustainable business and how the SDGs changed everything.
An accomplished strategist and sustainable business leader, Trista is passionate about sustainable business as smart business. Her career began in the United States and now spans from Europe to the Americas and Asia, and includes a variety of sectors such as consumer products, media and tech, healthcare and financial services.
Join us for this episode as we explore the differences between sustainability and ESG (and how one supports the other), discuss how businesses at all stages can integrate ESG factors, and consider the role of global frameworks – such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – in supporting this vital shift.