ESG Investing For Dummies. Brendan Bradley

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      Most firms understand that by building a business model that reduces reliance on fossil fuels, they should benefit from opportunities that the new ways of doing business create. And in doing this, they expect to lower operational costs, improve resilience in their energy supply, and attract more investors who are concerned about carbon risk.

      Greenhouse gases (GHG) can be reduced considerably in manufacturing, where they control the operations, and even in supply chain processes such as distribution and retail. Indeed, some companies are intending to support the generation of more renewable energy than they need to make the surplus available to the markets and communities in which they operate. This would help some companies reach their target of becoming carbon-positive in their factories and site operations by 2030.

      Eco-design programs are being developed to reformulate products to use fewer but higher-performing ingredients, particularly in the use of their most GHG-intensive products. Interestingly, most of the GHG footprint for many products occurs when people use them at home. Therefore, innovation and research and development (R&D) are also focused on delivering the products while considering the climate change challenge. Tackling these issues requires transformational changes to broader systems in which firms operate, and so government policy will need to dictate the right context for change and business action so that all sectors can work in collaboration on given projects and initiatives. (I discuss GHG in more detail earlier in this chapter.)

      Collaborating with others to create solutions for environmental issues

      

Unfortunately, business collaboration has been the greatest contradiction within corporate sustainability. Numerous efforts by companies to collaborate on the most complex issues facing civilization, such as climate change, resource exhaustion, and biodiversity loss, have been unsuccessful mainly due to self-interest, lack of a shared purpose, and an absence of trust. Companies have embraced sustainability, and many have effective ongoing programs in areas they can tackle on their own — for example, rationalizing manufacturing processes or decreasing their fleet emissions. However, when tackling collaborative answers to systemic problems, little progress has been made.

Collaborative governance is often stressed as the answer to different environmental problems. However, cooperation around environmental issues in a complex world is difficult to achieve as different players want different things, diverse environmental issues are related to each other in dissimilar ways, and given groups have differing amounts of influence on certain questions. So, can collaboration lead to a better environment?

      Research shows that the capacity to resolve environmental problems is in part associated with the way such networks are structured and in the patterns of collaboration between players. For example, where there is a risk of one player free-riding on the efforts of others, the conflict may be improved by linking such players with a third entity to form a triangular cooperation, in the hope that peer pressure will resolve the issue. It can also make a difference based on whether the problem is temporary or more permanent. When it’s temporary, it can be more successful where the network chooses a coordinator or leader to hold it together. The Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution (ECCR) is a process whereby neutral, third-party facilitators work with agencies and stakeholders using collaboration, negotiation, structured dialogue, mediation, and other approaches to prevent, manage, and resolve environmental conflicts.

      

This decade will determine whether civilization can develop a more socially and ecologically sustainable society. A vital part of that target requires a better understanding of how cooperation can be improved and become more effective, both among private stakeholders and public institutions. Continued leadership from businesses, governments, cities, and regions is required to maintain leadership in areas such as deforestation; business commitments to act; science-based targets and zero pledges; policy reform to level the playing fields; and financial disclosure to allow markets to correctly price risk and capital to flow to more sustainable investments.

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