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Can ESG Save Life on Earth?

ESG metrics, despite challenges and greenwashing criticisms, can help companies manage sustainability, drive accountability, and guide the transition to a habitable planet.

43 minutes
Key findings
  • ESG metrics are crucial for managing sustainability and setting targets.
  • Measurement challenges and greenwashing claims highlight need for standardization.
  • Decarbonization, circular economy, and regenerative models are essential next steps.
  • Effective ESG requires compromise among investors, employees, consumers, and society, alongside global collaboration.

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Helene Loning - HEC Paris
Meet the Author
Prof. Hélène Löning
Associate Professor and Academic Director - Accounting and Management Control

Hélène Löning's research interests are innovation management and innovation paradox (how can large corporations and start-ups learn from each other?), Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), Organizational learning, Organizational arrangements, structures & practices, Strategic Management Accounting...

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