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#30 What has business sustainability achieved? Special 50 minutes anniversary debate

Listen to Lene Serpa, Director and Head of Corporate Sustainability at ⁠A.P. Moller-Maersk⁠, Rachel Davis, Vice-President and Co-founder of Shift and Filip Gregor, Head of Responsible Companies at Frank Bold.

To celebrate the first anniversary of the podcast, Richard Howitt welcomes back three of our special guests to bring you up to date on some of those issues and also to look forward to what's going to happen next: Rachel Davis, vice-president and co-founder of Shift, Lene Serpa, director and head of corporate sustainability at A.P. Moller-Maersk, and Filip Gregor, head of Frank Bold’s Responsible Companies Section.

In this episode, you’ll hear more of the debate between our guests:

  • Latest state of progress Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D)
  • Do the debates on the CS3D and CSRD get lost in the details?
  • What is “risk” all about in the corporate sustainability field?
  • Companies’ technological journey and sustainability reporting
  • Is the debate around ESG shifting? What is the state of play in the US?
  • Geopolitical situation with China and impact on business and human rights 
  • Looking ahead: insights in current priorities for corporate sustainability

“For the first time, we've named broad categories of affected stakeholders that give companies now an architecture to take forward risk assessment, identification, prioritisation processes. That's a real advancement in broader social sustainability reporting standards. Just bringing that kind of clear structure to what's being asked of companies, the opportunity now is for the CS3D, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive to really follow that kind of clear approach, make sure it aligns with what's being asked of these same companies in reporting in terms of underlying management of risks to people and planet.”

Rachel Davis in Frankly Speaking

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