In this episode, GRIP’s commissioning editor Jean Hurley spoke with Danny Woolf, founder of Danesmead ESG and her colleague – Harriet O’Brien. Danesmead ESG provide advisory and outsourced services, primarily to investment managers and their portfolio companies.

We discussed:

• Regulatory reporting in the light of the labelling and marketing requirements from the UK’s FCA and the European Commission’s review of SFDR.
• How firms should address these new developments.
• Update on the US reporting requirements, in particular the recent greenhouse emissions reporting requirements from California.
• Observations on the vocal anti-ESG stance of some states and the legal challenges to the SEC’s Climate Disclosure rules.
• New developments from international standard setters including CSRD and double materiality, and ISSB sustainability reporting which has integrated both the TCFD and SASB.
• The ESG regulatory compliance burden on firms.
• The deprioritization of ESG on the CEO’s to do list or is that simply “green hushing”?
• AI as a tool in collecting, analyzing and reporting ESG data.
• Looking ahead to ESG as business as usual.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.