Theory Lecture

Getting ESG into a company

  • takes years
  • takes more than just management to make the switch
    • different tasks at different org levels
  • IT comes only very late in the process
  • gender pay gap usually exists and people are aware of it, only then addressed
  • Omnibus
  • usually 30-50 IROs are material in the report
    • lowest was Deutsche Post or DHL with only 7/8 material topics

Case Study

Tips

  • think about own company and own emissions
    • are MY emissions material now
  • severity of impacts
    • (scale + scope) * likelyhood + irremidiability = severity
  • policies, actions and targets have to be reported on
    • even if you say you don’t have anything
  • metrics
    • don’t have to be reported on if individual data point is not material
  • material topic not covered by ESRS
    • disclose additional information
  • non-material topics are not to be reported on
    • if you want to report on it, the topic might be material pal…

Task

  • value chain
  • assessment of E1 - climate change
  • IRO analysis
  • come up with rating methodoloy