Category Archives: Sustainable Finance & ESG

Sustainable investment, ESG strategy

Why Boards Must Impulse Just Corporate Transitions

Discussions at the Davos 2021 Summit made our global roadmap crystal clear: it’s prime time for a Great Reset. Boards are key to Just Corporate Transitions. Ksapa outlines a 4-step plan to convince companies to work at the interface of climate and societal issues.

2021 is the year for supercharging business and finance sustainability.

Supercharging Business and Finance Sustainability in 2021

If 2020 was the year chips all fell into place, 2021 kickstarts action against the 2030 Global Agenda. Marred by a pandemic shock, the last 12 months exemplified the impacts of interwoven climate, social and digital crises.

Prioritizing ESG Issues Across Complex Supply Chains

Ksapa looks into Supply Chain ESG Prioritization, Covid-19 impacts and solutions to better strategize engagement and sourcing activities.

Rallying Behind Cross-Value Chain Energy Transitions

Energy transition needs massive funding. In discussion with stakeholders, Ksapa outlines in this article its solutions to address 3 key chokeholds companies face in activating energy transition projects – namely, the lack of time, competence and investment capacity

ESG and Stakeholder Engagement in a Fraught Era

To advance responsible and business conduct amid conflicting cost-cutting policies, companies must engage stakeholders better, faster and more broadly. Ksapa shared 5 priority areas for immediate action and opened the conversation on challenges and solutions to the expert insights of Susanne Stormer (Novo Nordisk) and Christèle Delbé (Bonsucro).

Investors at the forefront of Human Rights Due Diligence

The PRI issued new recommendations to encourage investors to mainstream Human Rights due diligence. In this blog, Ksapa outlines a multi-year plan for investors to step up to the plate.

Responsible Investment in Venture Capital: 3 Strategies to Advance ESG

Explores some of the challenges venture capital fund general partners (GPs), limited partners (LPs), and founders face in managing ESG issues and proposes a road map of strategies the industry could take along three pillars

Harmonizing corporate ESG reporting standards

Non-Financial Reporting Harmonization Is Underway

Several initiatives are being developed with a view to harmonize reporting standards for corporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosures. The goal is to instill more consistency amid multiple preexisting reporting frameworks, in hope these streamlining initiatives do not come to contradict one another. Here are 3 essential principles for the development of such a standard.

Updates on the Non-Financial Reporting EU Directive

Ksapa recently contributed to the EU Consultation process around the EU ESG Directive. Here are a few takeaways on how to secure smarter disclosure from corporations.

For an Inclusive Recovery: 5 Key Levers for Businesses and Investors

Businesses and investors’ active contribution to inclusive growth is indispensable for our global society to emerge from the top, given the long list of inequalities accelerated and amplified by Covid-19.