ESG: Before, During and After the Crisis

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have largely focused on the “E” and the “G” because those are more easily defined. But any directors have struggled to explain what the “S” really means and how social issues can be measured. But these issues have now been pushed to the forefront in the midst of the pandemic and social unrest.

“None of us could have imagined where we are now and where we have been recently,” says Roy Dunbar, director for Humana Inc., Johnson Controls International PLC and SiteOne Landscape Supply. “It’s allowed many of us to reflect on our personal world, family, friends, the companies that we work for, how we spend our time. We were on a treadmill before that was often going faster and faster. We’ve been forced to slow to a certain extent. In that slowing, I see no retreat around matters related to the E, S and G .

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