![A CEO and former Los Angeles County deputy coroner on what he feels derailed the ESG movement […] ESG died from toxicity and dysfunctionality. Culpable parties include investors, fund managers, corporate communicators and politicians.](https://steelcityre.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20231006-Steel-City-Re.jpg)
A CEO and former Los Angeles County deputy coroner on what he feels derailed the ESG movement […] ESG died from toxicity and dysfunctionality. Culpable parties include investors, fund managers, corporate communicators and politicians.
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“Lightning does strike,” (Kossovsky) said, but firms that can demonstrate that they have developed effective governance systems and implemented thoughtful risk management experience a much different impact: “That’s where enterprise risk management creates value.”
Risk blindness: “why people, companies and politicians who are well aware of climate risk nevertheless fail to plan or react appropriately.”
ESG risk is one of a growing number of stakeholder-centric issues falling under the greater rubric of reputation risk. High-profile, costly risk management failures at AB InBev (Bud Light), Southwest Airlines and Silicon Valley Bank indicate that it is time for risk management to be more fully integrated into corporate processes, like marketing: #letriskmanagersmanagerisk! Reputation risk management needs to be a standard area of enterprise risk management responsibility. Can we drink to that?
Record high profit risk. Experts warn that exuberant price increases may come with reputational risks. “Boards should communicate that the firm’s risk management process…is thoughtful, dutifully overseen, and applies to everything that is mission critical, Kossovsky wrote.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has now launched an investigation and said it will hold not only companies that employ child labor accountable, but the larger, better known companies that have child labor in their supply chains. The new regulatory stakeholders in companies’ supply chains bring with them investors and litigators, who had material financial consequences to activities already being followed by activists.
ESG rhetoric pledge regrets. With ESG becoming as important to some companies as EBITDA and marketing departments ramping up the ESG rhetoric, the effective scope of dutiful oversight has expanded…The Delaware court increasingly sees oversight of all things mission-critical as a board duty.
All risk is connected. As in Dirk Gently’s world, everything in the risk world is now connected, but without the humor of Douglas Adams. The consequences of operational perils between and among employees—the sorts of things that might have triggered coverage with Employment Practice Liability insurance, is now a matter for derivative litigation and the SEC.