Communication around ESG - Part 2: a conversation with Caroline Maurice

Center Stage

Bladonmore

Business

5 • 1 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode, Sandra Davis talks again to Caroline Maurice, a specialist in compliance across ESG issues from Penmount Consulting. They discuss the proactive conversations that need to happen post-COP26, with upcoming legislation, and the focus for good corporate performance shifting from purely profit to purpose and citizenship.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Centre Stage, Bladermore's podcast series where we look at the issues which are relevant to our times and to our clients.
0:18.8	These can range from investor relations to internal communications, and of course, the most
0:26.7	talked about topic of recent months all around ESG.
0:31.0	I'm joined today by Caroline Morris.
0:34.5	She's an expert in the areas of ESG and has a watchful eye on how regulators and governments are
0:43.4	looking at the debate and what needs to be done and the likely changes that are coming,
0:50.7	which companies are going to have to adhere to and change their behaviours. Hi, Caroline.
0:57.7	Afternoon, Sandra. Nice to see you again. Thank you for coming back and joining us again. So let's
1:03.8	start with just a couple of minutes on COP 26. It's been reported everywhere. There's been a massive
1:10.4	debate. Big question been reported everywhere. There's been a massive debate. Big question.
1:13.8	Turning point or disappoint? What is the general consensus that's come out of it?
1:20.7	I think I'll answer this question by using some quotes from Boris Johnson. He said that COP 26 needed to be a turning point for humanity.
1:32.0	He said that a successful outcome was one which kept alive hopes of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels and did so by delivering on coal, cars, cash and trees. He did admit,
1:47.3	though, that COP 26 had not delivered the full solution, but had achieved just as much as we could
1:53.4	have hoped. And John Kerry, the President Biden's climate envoy, described the conference
1:59.0	as the world's last best chance to avert
2:01.8	climate catastrophe. So I think fairly agreed consensus that it was more towards the disappointment.
2:12.2	But I think from the world in which we move and the clients that we speak to, what has been absolutely clear
2:19.3	is that it's a driver for change. Companies, boards, are going to have to get their shareholders
2:25.9	to think differently. Are we going to have to move from the, you know, the classic CEO line
2:31.6	at a six-monthly results presentation of,
2:34.5	we create value for our shareholders in the short, medium and long term,
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