A Guide to Selecting and Monitoring Environmental, Social and Governance Metrics.
Welcome to "ESG Performance Measurement: A Guide to Selecting and Monitoring Environmental, Social and Governance Metrics."
In this course, we explore the world of ESG metrics, the range of measures available, how to select appropriate measures for your organization, and how to interpret the results and determine impact.
Measures of environmental, social, and governance performance are becoming increasingly important. Regulators want to see them in annual reports, and organizations now want to prove to their stakeholders and society at large that they are not damaging the environment and the communities they work in. Most organizations want to show that they are reducing their footprint, and many want to actively improve the environments and communities they impact.
ESG metrics are not always easy to measure, and it is often difficult to correlate actions with impact. In this course, I explore environmental, social, and governance performance measurement and how monitoring ESG performance can contribute, in some small way, to saving lives and habitats and improving the state of our planet.
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Let’s go on an ESG journey. I hope you enjoy the course.
2 activities • 14 videos • duration: 3h 7m
Business author and consultant, specialising in performance measurement and improvement
I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the UK and work as an author of business courses and a process improvement consultant. I have over 30 years' experience and live near Stirling in Scotland, with my wife, daughter and Cocker Spaniel. I aim to make my courses accessible and understandable. My courses focus on business topics including KPIs, performance measurement, approaches to business improvement, Agile and Lean. I hope you enjoy my courses.
Learned alot
Course well-organized and well presented and gives a good overview of the state of ESG reporting and regulation. The only criticism I have is that it focuses too heavily on aspects of accounting for a carbon footprint based on the demonstrably false premise that so-called greenhouse gases are warming the planet. That doesn't mean we should throw out all the good stuff related to ESG, far from it. But this central feature must be removed. Sadly, it is obvious from this course the extent of resources that have been wasted developing accounting methods for a CO2 footprint that serve no useful purpose. See: Nikolov, Ned & Zeller, Karl. (2024). Toward a New Theoretical Paradigm of Climate Science. Vol 4.3. 64-68. 10.53234/scc202412/22. or: https://youtu.be/tTMEc5DPWx0
Nothing about SFDR...
The course was very detailed. Lots of good information to start reporting GHG emissions.
