SOCIAL GOVERNANCE
taking environmental issues, social issues and governance issues
nviroment
In the coffee industry, we often look to origin stories to better understand a coffee or community, what makes it unique, its role and relevance for the broader industry, and opportunities for the future. This same approach can be applied to understanding ESG. One way to think of the ESG origin story is where the key actors are corporations, investors, and the public sector—especially the United Nations. At the origins of ESG, these stakeholders were working to build a bridge between parties to facilitate mutual understanding between two different worlds: the very specific, concrete world of corporate finance, risk, and investment; and the world of the interwov.
In the coffee industry, we often look to origin stories to better understand a coffee or community, what makes it unique, its role and relevance for the broader industry, and opportunities for the future. This same approach can be applied to understanding ESG. One way to think of the ESG origin story is where the key actors are corporations, investors, and the public sector—especially the United Nations. At the origins of ESG, these stakeholders were working to build a bridge between parties to facilitate mutual understanding between two different worlds: the very specific, concrete world of corporate finance, risk, and investment; and the world of the interwov.
In the coffee industry, we often look to origin stories to better understand a coffee or community, what makes it unique, its role and relevance for the broader industry, and opportunities for the future. This same approach can be applied to understanding ESG. One way to think of the ESG origin story is where the key actors are corporations, investors, and the public sector—especially the United Nations. At the origins of ESG, these stakeholders were working to build a bridge between parties to facilitate mutual understanding between two different worlds: the very specific, concrete world of corporate finance, risk, and investment; and the world of the interwov.