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Founded just over 20 years ago, CDP has grown and evolved to become a key part of the sustainable reporting ecosystem. In the early days, just a couple of hundred companies responded to its questionnaire on carbon emissions. Today, the organization collects information on climate change, deforestation and water security from nearly 10,000 businesses worldwide. Last year saw further developments when CDP released a joint statement with four other organizations – th...

Sponsored content The mining sector has traditionally been male-dominated in western markets, and perhaps even more so in Russia. Maria Lodkina, a young audit manager at accounting firm EY, didn’t think about that too much in November 2013 when she decided the time had come to turn the corner in her career and responded to an interview invitation from the gold-mining company Polymetal International in her native St Petersburg, Russia. ...

When EY published its recent report, Six priorities for boards in 2021, it spoke of organizations ‘evaluating every aspect of their business’ following a year of global ‘upheaval’. But while it identifies six distinct areas of focus, each really falls under the scope of ESG and demonstrating the long-term resilience of the company. EY’s six areas of board...

In what it describes as ‘a sign of the growing appeal of climate resolutions for mainstream investors’, responsible investment NGO ShareAction says its latest resolution – calling for HSBC to publish a strategy and targets to reduce its exposure to fossil fuels – has gained the support of investors with $2.4 tn in assets under management. Fifteen institutional investors, including Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, Man Group, the world’s largest pub...