Podcast: Danesmead ESG’s Daniella Woolf and Harriet O’Brien on the evolving nature of ESG

GRIP Montage: Private/Danesmead ESG’s

We spoke about sustainability and climate reporting in US, UK and EU; the divisive nature of ESG; and the regulatory compliance burden on firms.

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.