Hello and welcome to the latest in our series of podcasts we call Centre Stage. My name is Sandra Davis.

I'm a director and part of the coaching team at Bladermore. At Centre Stage, we try and create podcasts which touch on issues which our

clients have to think about on a regular basis, whether it's investor relations or employee

communications and engagement, or as we're doing today, a focus on ESG and how that has dramatically changed both in terms

of the regulatory environment and importance to all stakeholders over the last few years.

To do that, I've been joined by a specialist in this area, Caroline Morris. She's been working on ESG

for over 20 years. She tells me she started when she was very, very young. But 20 of those years

were with Goldman Sachs, where the focus was very much on the G for much of that time, on compliance

and government's issues. And of course, as we all know

in the last couple of years, that agenda has moved forward. And now sustainability and

environmental issues have become absolutely at the forefront of people's minds, both from

an investor point of view, a company

point of view, an employee, a point of view, and the communities in which they operate and serve.

She recently set up a consultancy called Penmount, specifically to help companies navigate

this changing world and this changing set of requirements and values.

And we're going to talk about what that means and about how those people responsible for

communicating those changes, what they need to think about and engage with, particularly

for their audiences, to make sure that the good actions that are taking

place are clearly understood and known about. And shared. Hello, Caroline.

Afternoon. Let's start with what's happened over the last couple of weeks. We've had the G7

summit. ESG has been on everybody else's agenda. Was it on theirs?

It most certainly was. At the end of the summit, they released a four-page communique.

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