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in 60 years


Wednesday, October 14, 2020

esg zoom 10/14

growth into culture, sustainability in funds

in last 6 years esg ne of greatest societal change waves in japan -nicholas benes

country tending to esg from opposite directions

all fund managers want to work for gpaf

japan pension fund - one of largest in world started adopting sdgs and esg stakeholder model 2015


- japan off site training previously weak so gap for esd trainers

governance capabilities vary vastly -gov code to lgt

3 different legal structures ere for gov - consequence hard 

non profit gcd trains both coroporate and institutions - go to data

access to data on esgs will be much more scrutinised in both japan and abroad- worldwide forward challenges to big conanies dont vary that much - is board inbtune with exp risks and how samrt is esg racking in the model


minako asks has roubdtable process movedon --goldberg sceptism brt statement stakeholder capitalismdue to olitics- other thing a few us journalists joining beat covering esg - journal yesteday sustainability report shareholder vs stakeholder primacy


nick brt statement reported but no immediate actions


ruben what is european view of stakeholde captalism -uk company law incude thinking impact on stakeholders- financial reporting cuncl slowly involved- so brt mainstemed esg a bit but stlill slow


-nick you said g is most impornt of esg becuae of role in governance in your region 


europe process pefectionist not always practical

what is one thing that can unite esg practitioners at cop26 nov21 glasgow remembering that scots and italains value sme networks much more than rest of europe/ do esg experts see any overlap with un artificial intel tech itu #aiforgood - ie where does deep data openness impact expoential risk  transparency at level of integrating market purpose


us problem big corporate build hi level multidisciplinary teams to feed into constant board level decision-mking - process involves such huge ongoing change few people really do it - part of 25 year long failure to audit intangibkes systemically

finsbury global hering includes dc mmerger hq - japan society great meeting- minako in tok