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Book review: Measuring Good Business - Chap. 5
Book review: Measuring Good Business - Chap. 5
By Marie-Josée (MJ) Privyk
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Optimize your CSRD program with the SASB Standards
Optimize your CSRD program with the SASB Standards
By Marie-Josée (MJ) Privyk
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Book review: Measuring Good Business - Chap. 4
Book review: Measuring Good Business - Chap. 4
By Marie-Josée (MJ) Privyk
Contributions
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What do you do if you want to stay up-to-date on sustainability trends and best practices as an executive?
In order to do all the other things on the list, you need to open up to thinking differently. Not just 'outside the box'. To have the humbleness to acknowledge that you might not know everything (no one does) and that it doesn't make you a weak leader to admit it and seek to know more (quite the opposite). When it comes to sustainability, leadership requires a mindset shift, which is rooted in a worldview change, to understand our true nature and our relationship with(in) nature. This requires - and will also facilitate - a shift in perception to i) the whole value chain, ii) impacts on the business and impacts OF the business on the ecosystem on which the company depends, and iii) a very long-term horizon.
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What do you do if you want to optimize data analysis and reporting in sustainability using new technology?
Understand the basics of data, what the characteristics of quality data (accuracy, reliability, completeness, consistency, uniqueness, etc.) and what it takes to generate good data, i.e. data governance and data mangement processes. Understand the difference between collecting data, and using it (interrogating it) to generate insights into performance. Data collection and data analytics and visualization are complementary and different. Understand that data is an input to making optimal management decisions and in providing decision-useful information to users of this information, i.e. business counterparts and stakeholders, such as investors, lenders, insurers, large customers, and government bodies.
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What are the best practices for prioritizing SDG alignment goals?
It depends who this question is addressed to: a government? NGO? Or Company? In the case of a company, the first thing to understand is that the SDGs are a global, macro-level sustainability strategy (sort of), not a micro-level one. This means there needs to be a process to ‘translate’ the macro-level objectives into sustainability matters (issues) that are connected to the company’s business. This is related to identifying material issues (dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities). When a company knows its material sustainability matters it can map them to specific SDGs (likely 2-3, not 10-12, and definitely not all 17), and even better to the specific sub-targets.
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What are the most effective ways to influence your organization's ESG strategy?
Answering this question depends very much on your role within your organization, especially your level of seniority (power and influence). The first thing is to understand what ESG and sustainability are all about, why everyone is talking about these, and what companies are expected/asked to do. The second thing is to understand ESG and sustainability in the context of the business itself - in other words, determining those issues that are *material* to the business given its industry, specific activities, geographic footprint, and jurisdiction. Materiality can also be influenced by value chain, time horizon, and outside-in (issues affecting the business) and inside-out (business affecting the issues) perspective.
Activity
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♻️ New EU Circular Economy Act - What do we know so far? ♻️ ✔️ It will be part of the Clean Industrial Deal, the new EU strategy to decarbonise and…
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If you're a #stewardship professional, or a #portfoliomanager, please check this out. It's an executive education program with a twist: It focuses on…
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Compassion might be on Xmas list for preparers as we all eagerly await Q1 2024 and the birth of the first CSRD reports. At least compassion is what…
Compassion might be on Xmas list for preparers as we all eagerly await Q1 2024 and the birth of the first CSRD reports. At least compassion is what…
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Experience
Education
Licenses & Certifications
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FSA Credential Holder (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting)
SASB – Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
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Sustainable Investment Professional Certification (SIPC)
David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Issued
Publications
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Connecting Sustainability and Finance: Information, Performance and Disclosures
ICAEW
This paper seeks to unravel the mystery in the connection between sustainability and finance, by
shedding light on differences in performance measurement, the distinction between performance
measurement and disclosures, and where the connectivity between sustainability and financial
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Greenwashing: What it is and How to Avoid it
Novisto
This report proposes to level-set the current understanding of what greenwashing is, why it happens, and the measures to avoid it. It offers a framework with which companies can understand and contextualize the many headlines and rapid developments about greenwashing happening across the globe.
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Playbook for Effective ESG and Sustainability Data Management
EDM Council
The Playbook for Effective ESG and Sustainability Data Management is intended to be a guide to help companies understand how to leverage existing tools (such as the COSO ICSR) and known data management (DM) capability requirements (such as EDMC's DCAM) to accelerate the design and execution of a data governance and management strategy for ESG and sustainability data and reporting.
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Seizing the CSRD Opportunity
Novisto
This white paper provides invaluable insight into how companies can seize the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive as an opportunity to truly embed sustainability into their business model. The paper explains the overarching regulatory context, how to identify CSRD compliance gaps, and offers practical recommendations for companies to get going with preparing their disclosures.
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ESG Data Management for Corporate Reporting Entities
EDM Council
This paper is a review of ESG data management challenges and the corresponding data management
best practices that pertain to Corporate Reporting Entities. It is one part of a larger series of papers
that will exhibit the results of a nine-month study to investigate, review, and document ESG data
challenges through a collaborative, cross-industry approach with data professionals, corporate
sustainability reporting professionals, ESG subject matter experts, and other business…This paper is a review of ESG data management challenges and the corresponding data management
best practices that pertain to Corporate Reporting Entities. It is one part of a larger series of papers
that will exhibit the results of a nine-month study to investigate, review, and document ESG data
challenges through a collaborative, cross-industry approach with data professionals, corporate
sustainability reporting professionals, ESG subject matter experts, and other business leaders.
The ESG Working Group of the EDM Council was created to investigate the data challenges facing
industry related to the acquisition, curation and use of ESG (environmental, social, and governance)
data. The responsible collection and use of ESG data have become an important issue as ESG has
become an important consideration in today’s society.Other authorsSee publication -
Le Québec sobre en carbone - des débouchés pour les entreprises du Québec - Investissement responsable et produits financiers (p. 22-31)
Institut du Québec
Main contributor to the section of the report titled Responsible Investment and Financial Products, highlighting the growing trend in mainstreaming sustainable finance in Quebec, which supports the transition to a low-carbon economy. Part of two reports published simultaneously by the IDQ: “Quebec assets for a low-carbon economy” (Le Québec sobre en carbone, l’avantage économique) and “Key low-carbon markets for Quebec businesses” (Le Québec sobre en carbone, des débouchés pour les entreprises…
Main contributor to the section of the report titled Responsible Investment and Financial Products, highlighting the growing trend in mainstreaming sustainable finance in Quebec, which supports the transition to a low-carbon economy. Part of two reports published simultaneously by the IDQ: “Quebec assets for a low-carbon economy” (Le Québec sobre en carbone, l’avantage économique) and “Key low-carbon markets for Quebec businesses” (Le Québec sobre en carbone, des débouchés pour les entreprises du Québec).
Languages
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French
Native or bilingual proficiency
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
Organizations
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EDM Council
Member of the ESG Special Interest Group; Interim Co-Lead
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St-Raphaël Palliative Care Home and Day Centre
Director and member of the Executive Committee, responsible for Communications
-The St-Raphael Palliative Care Home and Day Centre is a charitable organization founded to build and operate a palliative care home that will offer free, high-quality palliative care in one of the most populated areas of Montreal. The day center will be the first of its kind in Montreal. Major fundraising campaign of $10M underway. Visit us at maisonstraphael.org/en
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CIRI Quebec (Canadian Investor Relations Institute)
Board Member
-CIRI's mission is to advance the practice of investor relations, the professional competency of its members and the stature of the profession. Visit us at ciri.org
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Finance & Sustainability Initiative
Vice President of the Board of Directors
-FSI's mission is to transform "traditional" investment practices of financial institutions and governments by integrating ESG criteria to the analysis, selection and management of investments, with a view to sustainable development. Visit us at ifd-fsi.org
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