In this week’s Sustain Talks, I am talking to Gavin Lendon a Sustainability Consultant and one of the panellists on our recent Does ESG Matter webinar. We covered a lot of ground during the hour webinar, but we left a few questions unanswered.
In this week’s Sustain Talks we aim to answer those.
The links mentioned in this video
Webinar: Does ESG Matter? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31-DsetJcR4&t
Sustain Talks: The Solution to Our E-Waste Problem? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R3Y5CC50H8
Sustain Talks: Regenerative Farming - Thomas Gent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQo9rchRAY0&t=3s
Frameworks - GRI (https://www.globalreporting.org/), SSAB (https://www.ssab.com/en/company/sustainability/ssab-and-sustainability/sustainability-strategy),
B Corps (https://bcorporation.uk/),
CSR-A (https://csr-accreditation.co.uk),
TCFD (https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/),
CDP (https://www.cdp.net/en) -
If you need any help with any of these please contact sam@candeconsulting.co.uk
01:07 - What is ESG?
01:49 – What’s the difference between sustainability and ESG?
04:45 – What’s the legislation and what does it mean?
09:10 – What sort of things are in the legislation reports?
11:40 – Plans? – what plans?
12:45 – Getting to net-zero without offsetting.
14:25 – Off-setting isn’t just planting trees
14:47 – Regenerative agriculture
16:20 – Deforestation versus replanting
17:00 – Frameworks, SDGs how do these fit into ESG?
18:30 – Other strategies, KPI’s, Metrics…
20:50 - Where should an SME start?
22:30 – What about the circular economy?
26:50 – Should we be scared?
28:36 – Don’t look up – Is the film our reality?
