The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and China Central Depository and Clearing (CCDC) jointly release a white paper on China ESG practice, summarizing the current development of China’s ESG from three perspectives: regulation policy, ESG practices by enterprises and ESG practices in financial markets
DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) is an important concept of ESG at the social level, which is usually applicable to companies and organizations implementing ESG strategy. The three elements of DEI are closely related to employees. Companies adopting DEI will assume more social responsibilities, gain advantages in improving creativity and work efficiency, and take the initiative in ESG development
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange releases a carbon market report, which analyzes the current development of the global and Chinese carbon markets in detail, and proposes the opportunity for Hong Kong to participate in the process
Pensions for Purpose is committed to promoting impact investment action of pension funds. This study shows the progress of pension funds in climate-related financial disclosure and their actions towards governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets of the TCFD framework
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom issued a discussion paper on sustainable governance for financial companies to solicit governance opinions related to sustainable development. FCA believes that the financial industry needs to play an important role in the process of net zero transition, and the sustainable governance of financial companies is becoming more important
The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) released the ESG disclosure report of listed companies in China, taking 140 companies listed in the mainland China market and Hong Kong market as samples, to study their ESG information disclosure and climate related disclosure based on the TCFD framework
In the context of continuous application of ESG, research on sustainability, climate change and other aspects is growing, which has become an important aspect for consumers, investors, enterprises and regulators to understand ESG.
ESG research has the following functions:
1. Environment: achieve the goal of global carbon neutrality, reduce the global warming trend, and advocate the concept of green development;
2. Social: emphasizing the mutual benefit of stakeholders and producing positive externalities to society;
3. Governance: improve the governance ability of listed companies and effectively allocate limited resources;
This website provides public information from global ESG research institutions to interpret these studies, so as to facilitate the understanding of the latest ESG research trends and new understanding of the rapid development of the ESG industry.
