According to the European Commission, ESG ‘refers to the process of taking environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into account when making strategic decisions for companies, leading to more long-term development in sustainable economic activities and projects.’
ESG acts as a rating system to measure businesses’ activities looking at:
- environmental concerns such as pollution, biodiversity, climate change, deforestation, resource depletion and waste management;
- social issues such as human rights, child labour, product safety, product mis-selling, labour standards, and employee relations, and
- matters of governance as for instance accounting, board composition and diversity, bribery and corruption, executive pay, tax avoidance, and shareholders’ rights.
Join the pilot phase for our free ESG training.
ESG-UP is a 2-year not-for-profit project that is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The goal of the project is to train SMEs, entrepreneurs and organisations supporting them – i.e., trainers, consultants and assessors – on how to operate businesses sustainably by incorporating ESG criteria and practices into their business model.
Within the scope of the project, we are developing a free online training package including the following modules:
- Paradigm for sustainability
- Introduction to circular economy
- Circularity in industrial companies
- Circularity applied to service companies
- Standard and certification system
- Sustainable innovation
- Sustainable management and governance
- Sustainable finances
- Social skills
- Marketing and commercialization of sustainable ideas
We invite you to participate in the pilot phase for the training package this autumn during which you have the opportunity to test the module(s) of your choice. You can register your interest by sending an email to us at international@dublinchamber.ie. Let us know which module(s) you would like to test.
For more information on the project look at our website here.
