ESG is now a corporate imperative. Explore the potential of ESG as a gateway to capital and maximise the benefits to your organisation. Navigate the expectations of both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring your ESG approach meets their needs. Explore how good practice gives better access to not only financial capital but also social, human and natural capital.
Practice Management and Business Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Exploring ESG as Access to Capital
- Single Intergrated Approach to ESG: engagement strategy, disclosure and ratings
- Understanding what the ultimate purpose of your ESG is and practical steps in securing it
- Navigating what each of your internal and external stakeholders expect of your ESG approach
Presented by Josh Dowse, Head of ESG, SenateSHJ
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Mr. Josh Dowse, Head of ESG, SenateSHJ
Josh helps clients and experts identify what they want to do for a more sustainable economy, and engage others with their actions and ideas. Over the past 30 years, Josh has been one of Australia’s most trusted thought partners and communicators on ESG, sustainability, energy and climate change. He has prepared or reviewed dozens of investment ESG policies and corporate sustainability strategies. He has also facilitated and/or ghosted a range of significant public papers, including AEMO’s Integrated Systems Plan, the NSW Advanced Energy Strategy, the Australian National Outlook and the Business Roundtable Report on Climate Change. Josh brings broad industry experience to these roles, after being a solicitor with Minter Ellison, a publisher with Allen & Unwin, an editor of the McKinsey Quarterly and a communication consultant with McKinsey & Company. He has an Honours degree in History, an LLB and a Masters in Environmental Law and Economics, and learned as much as a father of four, a director of a disability NGO and a long-time coach and president of a junior rugby club.
This seminar is part of a series
In-House 10 Points Lunchtime Series: Critical Updates & Practical Guidance 2023
Thursday, 31 August 2023
Attend this 10-part lunchtime series designed specifically for In-House Counsel to gain not only your compulsory CPD points but also an update on the latest legal & commercial issues and risks impacting governance and In-House Counsel each day. Learn strategies to address the risk of a cyber security attack, implement or enhance ESG reporting, gain confidence when dealing with indemnity clauses, standard form contracts, legal professional privilege & enterprise bargaining agreements & much more.
Description
Attend the full series and earn 10 CPD units including:
6 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
2 units in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
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