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Assembling the ‘Avengers’: practicable ESG research for businesses

The team aims to collate the volume of ESG research out there in a way that will be understandable and useful to companies, investors and other stakeholders

Michelle Quah

Michelle Quah

Published Mon, May 23, 2022 · 05:50 AM
    • The plan is to issue regular reports on different areas of ESG, such as on how climate risk affects outcomes such as cost of capital, the ESG issues in supply chains, the implications of ESG for directors’ duties, and so on, says Prof Mak Yuen Teen.
    • Chief executive officer (CEO) of Sustainable Finance Institute Asia (SFIA), Eugene Wong, felt the need to translate the wealth of academic intellectual capital on ESG issues for use in practice.
    • The plan is to issue regular reports on different areas of ESG, such as on how climate risk affects outcomes such as cost of capital, the ESG issues in supply chains, the implications of ESG for directors’ duties, and so on, says Prof Mak Yuen Teen. Mak Yuen Teen
    • Chief executive officer (CEO) of Sustainable Finance Institute Asia (SFIA), Eugene Wong, felt the need to translate the wealth of academic intellectual capital on ESG issues for use in practice. SFIA

    IN A world flooded with research on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, the team behind the report “” sought to make a difference with their offering.

    The report’s author, Professor Mak Yuen Teen, wanted to bring together the increasing amount of academic and practice research being published on different aspects of ESG - and explain the implications of the research in a way that would be both understandable and useful to companies, investors, regulators and other stakeholders.

    “It is clear that investors and regulators are increasingly expecting companies to link ESG to executive remuneration, and more companies are doing so, especially in Europe and North America,” said the professor of accounting at NUS Business School, who is known here for his views on corporate governance (CG) issues.

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