ESG Development in Transportation Update
“In 2020, more than 400 activist campaigns were launched against public companies traded on the US stock exchange”, according to…
What do different segments of the workforce say about companies’ ESG strategies?
This week I would like to share some highlights from a recently published report by Russell Reynolds on the perception that three different segments of the workforce have on the sustainability strategies in the companies they work for. By surveying 8,594 employees and next-generation leaders, as well as 907 C-suite leaders, the study yielded interesting insights for […]
Sustainability reporting in the S&P 500
This week I would like to share some highlights from a recently published report by Teneo, one of the leading CEO advisory firms, on what was seen in 200 sustainability reports from S&P 500 companies published during the first semester of 2021. Obviously, the US market is much deeper than Mexico’s, and companies are usually larger with […]
ESG implementation for SMEs
Two weeks ago, we participated in the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2021, where various sustainability topics were discussed. This week we would like to share some thoughts we heard on one topic in particular: ESG implementation for SMEs. Almost 90% of businesses worldwide are small and medium-sized. They account for approximately 70% of […]
ESG Development in Construction & Commercial Services Supplies update
This week, we are updating our ESG Development Heatmaps for two more sectors in Mexico: Construction and Commercial Services Supplies. As in the past, we only focused on (1) companies listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange (using the stock exchange sector classification) and (2) publicly disclosed materials. Construction Commercial Services So, what can we read […]
The thoughts of 1,122 CEOs on D&I
This week the UN’s Global Compact and Accenture published their annual CEO Study, which given the context of the pandemic, this year was focused on diversity and inclusion. The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on some social groups, with many more job losses happening in women than men. Across many geographies and industries, this has […]
What makes a leader a sustainable leader?
This week, I want to flag a report on what makes a leader a “sustainable leader” published by Russel Reynolds together with the UN’s Global Compact last year (you can read it here). I think this makes an interesting read for any person who is trying to understand how to make an organization’s sustainability journey more […]
ESG Development in Energy and Capital Goods Update
This week, we are sharing our updated ESG Development Heatmaps for the Energy and Capital Goods sectors in Mexico. As in the last heatmap update we published for Mexican FIBRAs, we are focused only on (1) companies listed in the Mexican Stock Exchanges and (2) publicly disclosed materials, assessing the level of maturity these companies […]
ESG Integration in Afore XXI Banorte
This week I want to share the notes from a conversation I had with Gaby Luna, who in addition to leading the ESG effort within Afore XXI Banorte, is also the coordinator of the ESG investment subcommittee within AMAFORE (the association of pension funds, Afores, in Mexico). The idea of this conversation was to understand […]
ESG Development in Fibras update
This week we are publishing our updated ESG Development Heatmap for FIBRAs. As some of you may remember, last year we published a series of heatmaps per industry covering all the Mexican market with the idea of showing how advanced publicly listed companies were in two fronts: ESG strategy development and ESG communication. In the […]