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From the course: Introduction to ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance

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ESG reporting

ESG reporting

From the course: Introduction to ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance

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ESG reporting

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- [Instructor] ESG reporting is disclosing factual and relevant ESG data and information on commitments, initiatives, policies and progress along with associated ESG risks and how these risks are managed. In traditional financial reporting, public companies report revenues and expenses to inform investor decisions. ESG reporting is also increasingly used by investors and include a wide variety of metrics for decision-making in addition to financial disclosures. ESG reporting is anything but a PR exercise. Its purpose is to provide comparable and useful information to various key stakeholders. Reporting companies typically pick and choose one or more reporting formats among over a dozen common ESG reporting frameworks that best suit their motivations for disclosure. Available multiple ESG reporting options many times results in organizations spending a large portion of their resources on reporting to various frameworks. On…

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