How can a Chief Sustainability Officer role become more influential? In the latest episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Alison Taylor, Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business, discusses the four key changes needed for the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), avoiding siloed thinking around sustainability and common mistakes companies are making around ESG.&nbsp;&nbsp;

<description>&lt;p&gt;How can a Chief Sustainability Officer role become more influential? In the latest episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, &lt;span class="outlook-search-highlight" data-markjs="true"&gt;Alison&lt;/span&gt; Taylor, Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business, discusses the four key changes needed for the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), avoiding siloed thinking around sustainability and common mistakes companies are making around ESG.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How can a Chief Sustainability Officer role become more influential? In the latest episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Alison Taylor, Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business, discusses the four key changes needed for the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), avoiding siloed thinking around sustainability and common mistakes companies are making around ESG.  

Alison Taylor: The evolving role of the Chief Sustainability Officer

As one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, how is Norges Bank Investment Management planning for a sustainable future? Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, joins us in this episode to discuss how they are generating returns in a responsible and transparent way including climate action plans, the importance of a long term outlook, and ESG risk management strategies.

<description>&lt;p&gt;As one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, how is Norges Bank Investment Management planning for a sustainable future? Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, joins us in this episode to discuss how they are generating returns in a responsible and transparent way including climate action plans, the importance of a long term outlook, and ESG risk management strategies.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

As one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, how is Norges Bank Investment Management planning for a sustainable future? Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, joins us in this episode to discuss how they are generating returns in a responsible and transparent way including climate action plans, the importance of a long term outlook, and ESG risk management strategies.

Carine Smith Ihenacho: Responsible investing as a sovereign wealth fund

How are APAC countries approaching the transition to net zero? In this episode, Yuki Yasui, Managing Director of the Asia Pacific Network of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) delves into the key focus areas, challenges and goals for the recently launched network, as well as how they help provide solutions to the three key gaps the finance sector currently faces.&nbsp;

<description>&lt;p&gt;How are APAC countries approaching the transition to net zero? In this episode, &lt;span class="outlook-search-highlight" data-markjs="true"&gt;Yuki&lt;/span&gt; Yasui, Managing Director of the Asia Pacific Network of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) delves into the key focus areas, challenges and goals for the recently launched network, as well as how they help provide solutions to the three key gaps the finance sector currently faces.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How are APAC countries approaching the transition to net zero? In this episode, Yuki Yasui, Managing Director of the Asia Pacific Network of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) delves into the key focus areas, challenges and goals for the recently launched network, as well as how they help provide solutions to the three key gaps the finance sector currently faces. 

Yuki Yasui: Mind the data gap, net zero transition planning in APAC

What constitutes a material ESG issue &ndash; and who decides? In this episode, Robert Eccles, Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Sa&iuml;d Business School, Oxford University, dives into materiality, the distinction between sustainability and ESG and why views on ESG are so polarised in the US. Robert also tells us what he thinks is the difference between financial and ESG reporting, and how we can find common ground to more efficiently fight climate change.&nbsp;&nbsp;

<description>&lt;p&gt;What constitutes a material ESG issue &amp;ndash; and who decides? In this episode, Robert Eccles, Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Sa&amp;iuml;d Business School, Oxford University, dives into materiality, the distinction between sustainability and ESG and why views on ESG are so polarised in the US. Robert also tells us what he thinks is the difference between financial and ESG reporting, and how we can find common ground to more efficiently fight climate change.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

What constitutes a material ESG issue – and who decides? In this episode, Robert Eccles, Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, dives into materiality, the distinction between sustainability and ESG and why views on ESG are so polarised in the US. Robert also tells us what he thinks is the difference between financial and ESG reporting, and how we can find common ground to more efficiently fight climate change.  

Robert Eccles: Pinpointing the material issues in ESG

How can we keep Scope 3 emissions reporting consistent? With the launch of FTSE Russell&rsquo;s latest research report &lsquo;Scope for improvement: Solving the Scope 3 conundrum&rsquo;, Jaakko Kooroshy, Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research at LSEG, unpacks the report&rsquo;s findings including why Scope 3 emissions are so important for companies to measure and for investors to understand. Jaakko also explains why companies are confused about reporting, what should be considered a material category and how to drive better consistency for company reporting. Read the report here:&nbsp;<a title="https://www.lseg.com/en/ftse-russell/research/solving-scope-3-conundrum" href="https://www.lseg.com/en/ftse-russell/research/solving-scope-3-conundrum">Scope for improvement: Solving the Scope 3 conundrum | LSEG</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;How can we keep Scope 3 emissions reporting consistent? With the launch of FTSE Russell&amp;rsquo;s latest research report &amp;lsquo;Scope for improvement: Solving the Scope 3 conundrum&amp;rsquo;, Jaakko &lt;span class="spelle"&gt;Kooroshy&lt;/span&gt;, Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research at LSEG, unpacks the report&amp;rsquo;s findings including why Scope 3 emissions are so important for companies to measure and for investors to understand. Jaakko also explains why companies are confused about reporting, what should be considered a material category and how to drive better consistency for company reporting. Read the report here:&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="https://www.lseg.com/en/ftse-russell/research/solving-scope-3-conundrum" href="https://www.lseg.com/en/ftse-russell/research/solving-scope-3-conundrum"&gt;Scope for improvement: Solving the Scope 3 conundrum | LSEG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How can we keep Scope 3 emissions reporting consistent? With the launch of FTSE Russell’s latest research report ‘Scope for improvement: Solving the Scope 3 conundrum’, Jaakko Kooroshy, Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research at LSEG, unpacks the report’s findings including why Scope 3 emissions are so important for companies to measure and for investors to understand. Jaakko also explains why companies are confused about reporting, what should be considered a material category and how to drive better consistency for company reporting. Read the report here: Scope for improvement: Solving the Scope 3 conundrum | LSEG

Jaakko Kooroshy: Solving the Scope 3 conundrum

The LSEG Sustainable Growth Podcast tackles important issues which intersect sustainability and finance, hosted by Jane Goodland, LSEG’s Group Head of Sustainability.  We talk about some of the biggest issues of our time – from climate transition and investment, green infrastructure to greenwashing, natural capital, carbon markets, financial inclusion, equality and inclusion and more!  We hear from leading experts from Microsoft, ISSB, IIGCC, Blackrock, IFAD, Women's World Banking, Climate Impact Partners, Planet Tracker, First Abu Dhabi Bank – and many more.

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