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.
Responsible Business Report 2021
Our annual report tracks our yearly progress and explains the targets and actions we've set ourselves to achieve positive social and environmental impact.
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Our thinking
Victoria Younghusband
Mandatory climate-related disclosures coming soon
On 28 October 2021, the government published its response to its consultation on mandatory climate-related disclosures.
Christopher Page
Sustainable Rural Estate Management: The Penpont Project
Listen for an insight into the thinking behind the Penpont Project.
David Savage
The road to net zero begins with data.
Rachael Davidson
Judicial Review Reform
Judicial review is a mechanism available to various interested parties to challenge the legality of decision made by a public body.
Kerry Stares
Sustainability Leaders: Colin le Duc, Generation Investment Management
What is the future for ESG?
Ingrid Saffin
Ingrid Saffin writes for Property Week on green leases and their role on the journey to reaching net zero
COP26 has brought into sharp focus the gap between promises to limit environmental damage and real action.
Isobel Young-Herries
COP26 and the impact on Property Finance
There is a strong focus on countries ‘building back better’ their economies through green, resilient recovery.
Kerry Stares
Sustainability Leaders: Peter Dickinson, Mitie Group Plc
Why do businesses of all types and sizes need to be taking ESG issues seriously?
Ben Butterworth
COP26: Focus on Sustainability for Commercial Tenants
Ingrid Saffin
Green provisions in leases are no longer an option
Fiona Edmond
Fiona Edmond and Kerry Stares write for Estates Gazette on how sustainable building design is evolving to meet the demand for positive environmental and social impact
As a sector, real estate and construction is very much in the sustainability spotlight.
Jody MacDonald
ESG in Sport – net zero targets and “coolerplate” clauses
Caroline Swain
Scrutiny over 'Greenwashing' continues: ASA upholds complaint over ad claims that Alpro's products are 'Good for the planet'
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?