Dates and location
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Dates and location
Hours
Description
The governance, or management structure, for overseeing ESG within a company is crucial for the effective implementation of an ESG Strategy and achieving associated goals.
This practice lab will unpack the strategic and operational value of developing an internal ESG governance structure as well as provide tactics you can deploy to strengthen the effectiveness of that structure. We’ll dive deep into various models of ESG governance and best practices for managing them within an organization.
Topics Include:
- Why an ESG Governance Structure?
- Key Steps in Developing ESG Governance Structure
- Step 1: Determine Relevant Members
- A Standard Internal ESG Governance Structure
- ESG Governance Structure – Public, Private & SME Companies
- Step 2: Create Committee Charter
- Example Charter for a Public Company
- Step 3: Establish Meeting Cadence & Protocols
- Step 1: Determine Relevant Members
This course includes a quiz that you can attempt multiple times. To ensure that your understanding of the material is accurately assessed, the correct answers will not be shown after each attempt.
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Key Takeaways
Upon completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Describe the key steps in standing up an internal governance structure for ESG oversight.
- Compare and contrast different approaches to ESG governance.
- Explain the core content of an ESG governance charter.
- Provide insight on what roles and functions should be involved in ESG Governance.
- Demonstrate how ESG governance is critical to achieving ESG commitments.
Who Will Benefit
This practice lab is recommended to any ESG analyst, practitioner, or aspiring director (or enthusiast), as well as anyone interested in or responsible for contributing to ESG performance within an organization. Compliance, risk management, finance, and operations executives, as well as management consultants, will find this content helpful as well.
How to Access the Course
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Speaker(s)
Noah Miller worked in ESG consulting, social entrepreneurship, and served in a variety of internal and external consulting capacities. Most recently he spent two years with Summit Strategy Group, serving as the Senior Director of their ESG Consulting and Stakeholder Engagement Practice. Noah has also been an internal management consultant for Keurig-Dr. Pepper (a US-based and publicly listed multinational) and advised global non-profits on revenue generation and program development. Noah currently supports a variety of NGOs on a pro-bono basis – including as a board member for Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) and sitting on the ESG committee for the Green Building Initiative (GBI).