Environmental, Social and Governance Impact Enters its Adolescence

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Thursday, November 22, 2024
1:00 pm eastern 

Co-sponsored by the Yale Alumni Academy and the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, join Todd Cort, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, Faculty Director of the MBA for Executives Sustainability Program, and Co-Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale. In this session, Cort will discuss how environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities to business have expanded rapidly in the face of mega-trends such as climate change, ecosystem collapse and socio-economic inequality. Investors, businesses, and regulators are racing to better understand the nature of these risks and opportunities, specifically how these risks might accrue to the financial well-being of the business. This session will introduce the key trends in environmental, social, governance including regulation, liability, corporate risk management systems as well as the recent backlash from US politicians.

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Todd Cort

Todd Cort is Senior Lecturer in Sustainability; Faculty Director of Sustainability Program, MBA for Executives; Faculty Co-Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment. Dr. Cort works at the intersection of sustainability and investor value. Over the course of 20 years, in consulting and academia, he has applied a scientific and economic lens to corporate social and environmental responsibility (or sustainability) in order to identify the tools, mechanisms, metrics and indicators that create the greatest value for investors, businesses and society. Todd has worked extensively with companies and investors across industrial sectors. His experience ranges from ‘on the ground’ implementation of sustainability programs to corporate level communication and investor strategy development. He has also worked extensively on integrated programs to meet regulatory requirements while promoting awareness and understanding of sustainability priorities through communications and engagement with communities, regulators, policy makers and internal stakeholders.

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