Exploring ESG as Access to Capital: An Imperative
ESG is now a corporate imperative. Explore the potential of ESG as a gateway to capital and maximise the benefits to your organisation. Navigate the expectations of both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring your ESG approach meets their needs. Explore how good practice gives better access to not only financial capital but also social, human and natural capital. WEB2311N29GZ
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Practice Management and Business Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Exploring ESG as Access to Capital
- Single Intergrated Approach to ESG: engagement strategy, disclosure and ratings
- Understanding what the ultimate purpose of your ESG is and practical steps in securing it
- Navigating what each of your internal and external stakeholders expect of your ESG approach
Presented by Josh Dowse, Head of ESG, SenateSHJ
Presenters
Josh Dowse
Josh helps clients and experts identify what they want to do for a more sustainable economy, and engage others with their actions and ideas. Over the past 30 years, Josh has been one of Australia’s most trusted thought partners and communicators on ESG, sustainability, energy and climate change. He has prepared or reviewed dozens of investment ESG policies and corporate sustainability strategies. He has also facilitated and/or ghosted a range of significant public papers, including AEMO’s Integrated Systems Plan, the NSW Advanced Energy Strategy, the Australian National Outlook and the Business Roundtable Report on Climate Change. Josh brings broad industry experience to these roles, after being a solicitor with Minter Ellison, a publisher with Allen & Unwin, an editor of the McKinsey Quarterly and a communication consultant with McKinsey & Company. He has an Honours degree in History, an LLB and a Masters in Environmental Law and Economics, and learned as much as a father of four, a director of a disability NGO and a long-time coach and president of a junior rugby club.