The ESG Podcast

Sep 05 2024 46 ep. 21 mins 28
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The ESG Foundation was founded in 2020 and exists to focus the attention of all organisations that positive Environmental, Social impact and corporate Governance behaviours are vital to the wellbeing of the stakeholders they serve.

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Is ESG dead? Should ESG change to ESL, with L standing for leadership as a subset of 'Steward Leadership'?

Sep 05 2024 21 mins  
We talk to TED Talk presenter and author of 'Sustainable Sustainability', Rajeev Peshawaria, about the concept he's coined called steward leadership. For Rajeev, interdependence, long-term view, ownership mentality and creative resilience are not adequately included in the G of ESG. Are leaders born, or made? Rajeev's response to that is worth listening to the podca

What difference can a small island like the UK do to save the Earth?

Sep 05 2024 20 mins  
The UK’s carbon emissions amount to something like 2% of the world’s carbon footprint, so is there any point the UK driving so hard to meet its net zero targets ahead of 2050? Hannah Scott, CEO of the business network Oxfordshire Greentech puts the case very eloquently, that of course there is…

Confronting the Storm: Regenerating Leadership and Hope in the Age of Uncertainty

Jul 16 2024 25 mins  
David Ross is an international strategist and corporate peacemaker. He is founder of Phoenix Strategic Management and works with organisations, leaders and communities to help them successfully deal with their most complex – and often, controversial – issues. In his exceptional new book Confronting the Storm: Regenerating Leadership and Hope in the Age of Uncertainty David shar

What role does sustainability have in the corporate boardroom today and in the future?

Jun 18 2024 26 mins  
In today's podcast Ellie Besley-Gould, Director of Xynteo, looks at the current state of play for ESG in some of the world's largest corporations. In perhaps the best name drop of all time on the ESG Podcast Ellie also tells us how Jonathan Porritt recently told her, "We can't have nature without humans...". So, which humans, or large large corporations, are d

Is the fashion industry responding to Gen Z's interest in ESG?

May 30 2024 20 mins  
In today's podcast Victoria Gothard, a final year Politics & Spanish undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, looks at the fashion industry through the eyes of a Gen Z. Victoria's recent article on our Keeping Current section is a thought provoking prod to the Doomers of today that their appetite for fast fashion is itself, doomed. Have a listen to her. This is one

All you need to know about carbon offsetting

Mar 14 2024 20 mins  
In today’s podcast a returning interviewee, James Stander, the Founder of Sustainable Advantage, weighs up the criticisms of some carbon offsetting strategies and suggests an approach of his own, based on his significant expertise and years of experience.

Why where our money is invested really matters

Feb 23 2024 22 mins  
Today we interview a subject who's had not one, but two, stellar business ideas. Dan Sherrard-Smith comes on today's ESG podcast offering a solution to dramatically reduce your carbon emissions, at a stroke. He is the founder of MotherTree. Previously, he was on the founding team of Look After My Bills which had the best ever deal on Dragons' Den and saved the British p

The Ethical Gambling Forum - is it an oxymoron or can the EGF bring ESG principles to bear on the gambling industry?

Jan 01 2024 22 mins  
Adrian Sladdin, Founder and Director of EnviroEducation, and convener of the EGF, explains that whilst the gambling industry will be regarded by some as beyond redemption that shouldn't stop efforts to engage in dialogue with the sector, exploring ways in which it can be more ethical, without just tick boxing ESG criteria in an attempt to greenwash its image. What are the odds

How are businesses doing when it comes to tracking their progress towards Net Zero? Do you know your Scope 1 emissions from your Scopes 2 or 3?

Dec 10 2023 20 mins  
In this podcast we talk to Paul Rekhi, Head of Carbon Services at Advantage Utilities, whose job it is to help businesses start tracking how much carbon they're emitting. Interestingly enough, while the motivation for many privately owned businesses have started doing this because it's the right thing to do, or they want to get ahead on forthcoming regulation, it can actual

Has news of ESG's death been exaggerated?

Oct 31 2023 26 mins  
It's fashionable at the moment to take swipes at ESG investing, in particular politicians in the US have been quick to seize on any messaging that might save their constituents money in the short term. But for those of us more keenly interested in the long-term outcomes for society and the planet is there an alternative to ESG? In this podcast Tim Smith, one of the most respect