With the growing adoption and development of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, businesses are increasingly expected to ensure that information they report is reliable. Increasingly, investors, regulators, customers and other stakeholders increasingly expect ESG data with consistent processes and credible evidence. Planning for assurance goes beyond merely collating figures at the end of the…
Category: Sustainability and ESG
ESG Assurance Readiness: How Software Supports Audit Trails
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting is gaining traction, and organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the need for accurate, consistent and traceable information as part of their sustainability reporting. ESG data may be collected by different departments, locations, systems and from various external sources, and it may be hard to identify how reported figures…
Sustainability-Linked Financing: Key Financial Considerations
Expectations around balancing financial performance with environmental and social responsibility are growing. This transformation has led companies to start considering how to structure their financing to link the financial terms with tangible sustainability outcomes. Sustainability-linked financing is one such approach, linking the financial characteristics of a loan or bond to the borrower’s achievement of predefined…
Why AI Is Becoming the Backbone of ESG Reporting
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting has become one of the business strategies of the day. Businesses are increasingly being asked to provide transparent, precise and measurable sustainability reporting for investors, regulators and consumers. Nonetheless, it is difficult to gather, organize and analyze large amounts of ESG data. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology…




