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Sustainability in financial services is important – but is it sustainable?

The following article is reproduced with permission of the author, Simon Gray, Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers A provocative title for an emotive subject perhaps – yet still a very important one and worthy of debate, particularly given recent well-publicised fires raging in Europe, British Colombia and Hawaii and of course resistance to the recently implemented Ultra-Low Emission…

Lord Mayor’s Coffee Colloquy on SDG 13 Climate Change

The Lord Mayor has convened a series of conversations on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Working in conjunction with the Royal Society three deal with different aspects of the SDG 13 – Climate change. The second session dealt with the issue of Nature and the Economy. It is of heightened relevance as we see the start of the impact of…

The Pervasiveness of Human Rights in ESG

A criticism of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) over the years has been that it is so broad as to be meaningless.  I would argue that, on the contrary, it needs its breadth to capture the interlinking qualities of ESG, which is more like a Venn diagram than a set of neatly contained boxes.  Human rights provide a good example.  …