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How companies are navigating 2025 sustainability challenges + a new podcast name!

2025/2/14
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Neil Stewart: 我负责国际可持续性准则委员会(ISSB)的企业拓展工作。我们看到全球范围内越来越多的国家和地区正在采用或与ISSB的标准对齐其报告框架。未来可持续性报告领域的主要问题包括:欧盟即将出台的法规、美国公司报告的未来走向以及传统可持续性报告的未来。公司面临着大量的问卷调查、评级、排名和报告义务,这妨碍了他们开展实际的可持续性工作。但我们也看到公司对可持续性数据和披露的投资正在带来回报,这些数据不仅用于投资者报告,还用于公司战略、董事会决策等方面。尽管目前存在许多不同的框架和标准,但它们的目标是一致的,并且正在逐渐趋于融合和协调。公司使用ISSB标准的原因有两个:投资者需要这些数据来进行决策,以及公司内部可以使用这些数据来提高财务绩效。 Marina Severinovsky: 我是Schroders北美地区可持续发展主管。Schroders 是一家大型全球资产管理公司,我们的投资决策中融入了财务上重要的可持续因素。投资者对低碳转型和脱碳的兴趣正在从简单的低碳投资转向更复杂的方法,例如将投资组合与净零排放路径对齐或通过气候解决方案支持低碳转型。可持续发展的一切努力都应以人为本,关注气候变化、自然和能源转型对人们和社区的影响。自然资本对经济至关重要,但其价值被严重低估,因为缺乏有效的衡量体系。Schroders 的可持续发展方法不会发生太大变化,其重点仍然是通过财务重要性视角支持投资团队进行可持续投资。应该将ESG和可持续发展重新定义为21世纪的商业风险或长期投资考虑因素,重点关注风险和机遇目标,而不是教条式的可持续发展目标。 Brian DiMarino: 我是摩根大通全球可持续发展、战略和运营部门的常务董事兼副主管。摩根大通对可持续发展的关注是坚定不移的,其方法在2025年不会发生太大变化,重点仍然是实现既定的行业目标,并与客户合作应对脱碳挑战。气候变化挑战的关键在于将现有技术降低成本,使其具有经济竞争力,从而鼓励企业采用。 Jonah Smith: 我是IBM环境社会治理部门的副总裁兼全球主管。我的工作涵盖了IBM运营、价值链和利益相关者的各个方面,包括制定ESG战略、执行计划、进行可验证的报告以及与利益相关者沟通。IBM 通过其可持续发展加速器项目等计划与非营利组织和政府合作,利用其技术来解决经济或环境压力带来的挑战。IBM 致力于在人工智能应用中保持道德和透明,并拥有一个AI伦理委员会来确保其模型的良好治理。IBM 面临的最大的挑战是如何在可持续发展方面保持创新,并解决人工智能技能差距和气候变化带来的极端影响。

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This chapter explores the evolving sustainability standards, investment approaches in a complex political climate, strategies for net-zero targets, and the role of technology and AI in addressing sustainability challenges. It features insights from an international standards setter, an asset manager, and a financial institution.
  • Jurisdictions around the world are adopting ISSB standards, accounting for 60% of global GDP, over 40% of global market capitalization, and over 50% of greenhouse gas emissions.
  • The EU is expected to publish an omnibus bill to simplify CSRD, CSDD, and the EU Taxonomy, reducing the administrative burden for companies.
  • Companies are investing in sustainability data and disclosure, using this data in strategy, board-level decisions, and across the value chain.

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Today marks the anniversary of our podcast launch in 2019. Since then, we’ve released more than 250 episodes, and the show has been downloaded nearly 2 million times around the globe.   We’re celebrating these milestones and the evolution of the ESG Insider podcast by launching a new name: the All Things Sustainable podcast. Our new name reflects an idea we’ve heard repeatedly from guests over the past six seasons: Solutions to big sustainability challenges like climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and achieving a just and equitable transition require action from all sectors and all stakeholders.   Today we bring you highlights from our first live podcast event under the new All Things Sustainable name. We brought together four guests in front of an audience in New York City on Feb. 6 to ask: How are you navigating the changing sustainability landscape?  Our guests share their outlook on evolving sustainability standards; their investment approach in a fraught political environment; their strategies for net-zero and decarbonization targets; and the role that technology and AI can play in finding solutions to big sustainability challenges like climate resilience.   Tune in to hear from:   *Neil Stewart, Director of Corporate Outreach for the IFRS Foundation, which houses the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)  *Marina Severinovsky, Head of Sustainability – North America at Schroders   *Jonah Smith, Vice President and Global Head of Environmental Social Governance at IBM  *Brian DiMarino, Managing Director and Deputy Director of Global Sustainability, Strategy and Operations at JPMorganChase  “Our focus on sustainability is steadfast,” Brian tells us.  Tune in next week to hear more of our interview with Brian from JPMorganChase.   And please like, share and subscribe to All Things Sustainable wherever you get your podcasts.   Listen to our episode on the SEC's climate disclosure rule here: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/unpacking-the-sec-s-climate-disclosure-rule  Read about the 10 biggest sustainability trends S&P Global is watching here: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/insights/2025-esg-trends  This piece was published by S&P Global Sustainable1, a part of S&P Global. Copyright ©2025 by S&P Global DISCLAIMER By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation as to the accuracy or sufficiency of the information featured in this Podcast. The information, opinions, and recommendations presented in this Podcast are for general information only and any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk. This Podcast should not be considered professional advice. Unless specifically stated otherwise, S&P GLOBAL does not endorse, approve, recommend, or certify any information, product, process, service, or organization presented or mentioned in this Podcast, and information from this Podcast should not be referenced in any way to imply such approval or endorsement. The third party materials or content of any third party site referenced in this Podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of S&P GLOBAL. S&P GLOBAL assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of the content contained in third party materials or on third party sites referenced in this Podcast or the compliance with applicable laws of such materials and/or links referenced herein. Moreover, S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty that this Podcast, or the server that makes it available, is free of viruses, worms, or other elements or codes that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. S&P GLOBAL EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL'S USE OF, REFERENCE TO, RELIANCE ON, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS PODCAST OR THE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THIS PODCAST.