Doing well by doing good is no longer just an ethical choice.
For businesses, investors and those managing private wealth, navigating the risks and tapping into the opportunities created by environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues is now key to financial performance, resilience and sustainable value creation.
As a firm we work with listed and privately owned businesses, investors, trusts and estates, individuals, families, charities, regulators and public bodies – helping them to navigate this rapidly evolving landscape of ESG, sustainability and responsible business, to think long term, to look beyond compliance to purpose and values and to advance on their own sustainability journey.
In this Sustainability Hub we share updates and insights on this important and wide-ranging topic - please contact us to discuss how these issues are most relevant to you.
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Our thinking
Eddie Richards
Supply (chain) and demand
Caroline Greenwell
Caroline Greenwell quoted by Food Navigator on how organisations can avoid the greenwashing trap
New reviews on misleading claims in early 2022 will pressure companies to provide concrete evidence of their sustainability credentials.
Caroline Greenwell
Caroline Greenwell and Peter Carlyon write for New Law Journal on the issue of companies exaggerating their green credentials
The extent and impact of greenwashing by companies, the reputational damage where they’re caught out and potential regulatory action.
Bart Peerless
ESG investment and the challenges for trustees
What challenges does the ESG revolution present for trustees of private family trusts?
Bart Peerless
Bart Peerless and Matthew Radcliffe write for eprivateclient on ESG investment and the challenges for trustees
What challenges does the ESG investment revolution present for trustees of private family trusts?
Ingrid Saffin
Retail regeneration - will Croydon show us how it is done?
Martin Fisher
Environmental standards and the cost to office occupiers
Caroline Greenwell
Don't Spin the Greenwashing
Hannah Connors
Stewardship: word of the moment, guiding principle for past generations and shining light for the next
If stewardship is an old idea, why are we talking about it now?
Simon Weil
Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR)
Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) allows individuals to help social enterprises grow by offering a tax relief on investments.
Jason Saiban
Food Sector steps up on climate goals
Tristram van Lawick
Planning for the future of farming
Kerry Stares
Charles Russell Speechlys become a Corporate Member of Philanthropy Impact
Charles Russell Speechlys are delighted to become a Corporate Member of Philanthropy Impact.
James Scott
Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures: a status update on your financial reporting obligations
Jessica Arrol Caws
New climate-related disclosure rules proposed for asset managers, life insurers and regulated pension providers
Sarah Farrelly
Carers Week sees Charles Russell Speechlys partner with Martin Searle Solicitors and Frenkel Topping to deliver pilot pro bono “Ask the Experts” legal session for Bromley Mencap
Charles Russell Speechlys has partnered with Martin Searle Solicitors and Frenkel Topping
Mark Howard
Public Company Update - May 2021
Read the May 2021 edition of our biannual Public Company Update.
Michael Powner
Linking ESG and Executive Pay
How does a business go about embedding a focus on strong ESG performance into the structures and culture of its organisation?
ESG – Searching for substance behind the acronym
ESG is an acronym much used but perhaps less understood.