ESG Frameworks & what it all means - Gavin Lendon - Sustainology UK

17/05/2022 31 min

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Episode Synopsis

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) - 
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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?

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