AIMA's ESG Handbook 2025: A Guide to Sustainability Rules for Managers

ESG is strategy. Not sustainability reporting. 🌍 Plan it into the numbers. CFOs who weave ESG into budgets, risk models, and investment decisions create trust, resilience, and growth. 📊 Measure it. Audit it. Prove it. ESG only drives value when the outcomes are tangible, not rhetoric. 💡 Lead with finance. Embedding ESG into the financial DNA is how responsible businesses create long-term advantage. 📖 Read Integrating ESG into Financial Strategy : https://lnkd.in/ebanjnSW

Reporting That Tells the Whole Story📚 📊 A sustainability report should be far more than a set of tables and graphs. It is a blueprint for resilience and long-term value💼. The best ESG disclosures go beyond operational performance. They: ☆ Communicate business strategy clearly, showing how sustainability is woven into growth plans and risk management. ☆ Demonstrate top-management commitment, proving that leadership is future-fit and ready to adapt🔄. ☆ Focus on materiality🔍, identifying the environmental, social, and governance issues that truly shape the company’s risks and opportunities. 📈 This focus on materiality is essential. It ensures that reporting highlights what matters most to both the business and its stakeholders, not just what is easiest to measure. It prepares the organisation for emerging regulations and strengthens its external impact💥. Investors, regulators, and partners🤝 are no longer satisfied with promises or generic statements🚫. They expect a credible plan📝, backed by data📊, that connects financial performance with non-financial realities. Non-financial information is not simply a feel-good narrative; it is pre-financial intelligence, the early warning system for value creation and risk. 📌 When a company integrates this thinking into its reporting, it does more than comply with global standards. It shows the world that it understands where the future is headed and has a strategy to thrive there💪. #Materiality #ESGReporting #BusinessStrategy #Governance #Transparency #FutureFit

Understanding ESG — The Future of Responsible Business At Finova Associates, we believe that true financial success goes hand in hand with responsibility, ethics, and sustainability. ESG — Environmental, Social, and Governance — is transforming how organizations operate, report, and create long-term value. It’s no longer just about profit — it’s about how we achieve it. In this presentation, we explore: ✅ What ESG really means ✅ Why it matters for businesses and investors ✅ How companies can start their ESG journey today ✅ Global standards like GRI, IFRS, and UN SDGs shaping responsible growth Let’s work together to build a future where business performance and positive impact grow side by side. 🌿 #ESG #Sustainability #Finance #ResponsibleBusiness #FinovaAssociates #CorporateGovernance #SocialImpact #SustainableFinance

I’m preparing to kick off a free knowledge-sharing webinar series on sustainability and ESG, with the first session planned for October 12, 2025. This series will be all about simplifying ESG, cutting through jargon, and giving businesses practical tools they can actually use. Before I finalize the first topic, I’d love your input: 👉 Which starting point would be most valuable for you? (Vote in comments) 1️⃣ ESG Basics – What ESG really means and why it matters for every business 2️⃣ Decoding ESG Frameworks – Understanding CDP, EcoVadis, IFRS, and GRI without the jargon 3️⃣ First Steps in Carbon Accounting – How to measure emissions (Scope 1–3) and where to begin 📅 Tentative launch: October 12, 2025 Your feedback will help shape the very first session. #Sustainability #ESG #Webinar #KnowledgeSharing #ClimateAction

You're 5 minutes into a call with investors when someone asks: ‘How does your portfolio align with CSRD and EPBD requirements?’ Your mind races. That awkward pause? The real assets sector is drowning in acronyms. GRESB, NABERS, TCFD, SFDR, EU Taxonomy—and that's just scratching the surface. So I built a master list of key sustainability and ESG acronyms you'll encounter in real assets. 📍 The complete guide is on my website (link in comments) Want the quick-reference PDF? Perfect for: → That last-minute investor deck review → Onboarding new team members without the jargon overwhelm → Keeping in your back pocket when regulations drop new acronyms (looking at you, EU) Send me a DM, and I'll get it to you. Quick question: Which acronym made you feel lost the first time you heard it? (Mine was GRESB...a lot of Googling on my part)

Balancing profitability and sustainability isn’t a trade-off — it’s a strategy. As regulatory expectations evolve, UK organisations are facing a new era of transparency. Climate-related financial disclosures are now mandatory for many large companies, and the shift towards ISSB-aligned sustainability standards will soon extend even further. For CFOs and finance teams, this means one thing: integrating sustainability data into financial reporting is no longer optional — it’s essential for long-term value creation. In our latest article, we explore: 🌍 What sustainability reporting means in a UK context 📊 How ESG data can strengthen decision-making and financial control ⚙️ How Mercur Business Control helps connect sustainability metrics with financial performance 👉 Read the full article here: https://hubs.la/Q03PgkjK0 #Sustainability #Finance #CFO #ESG #Reporting #UKBusiness #FinancialPlanning #MercurBusinessControl

Post #100:- ESG Finance: Beyond Compliance, Toward Value 🌱 ESG is no longer a checkbox—it’s a balance sheet priority. 📉 Regulatory pressure? → “Let’s file the report.” 📊 Investor demand? → “Add a sustainability slide.” 💬 Reputation risk? → “We’ll handle PR.” And just like that, ESG becomes reactive instead of strategic. The fallouts: 1. Capital access becomes conditional 2. Valuations suffer from poor transparency 3. Stakeholder trust erodes 4. Long-term risks go unpriced Here’s the truth: 🔹 ESG is not just ethics—it’s economics 🔹 Sustainable finance drives resilience and returns 🔹 ESG metrics must be embedded in financial KPIs The fix? ✅ Integrate ESG into capital allocation decisions ✅ Link sustainability goals to financial outcomes ✅ Educate leadership on ESG value creation ✅ Treat ESG as a financial lens, not a reporting task 💡 ESG done right isn’t a cost—it’s a competitive edge. #ESGFinance #SustainableInvesting #FinancialStrategy #ESGReporting #FinanceLeadership

📢 New sector standards from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched this year a public consultation (March–May 2025) on 3 new sector standards: > Banking > Capital markets > Insurance These draft standards are designed to guide organisations in sectors with particularly material ESG impacts. They identify the most likely relevant topics and disclosure requirements, providing clarity, comparability, and credibility in ESG reporting. As one of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting frameworks, GRI’s evolution is key for financial institutions. 👉 We break down the essentials in our latest article: https://lnkd.in/eS99Qt6R

Brilliant panel discussion at the ABN AMRO UK ESG Panel – Navigating the UK’s evolving ESG landscape: Transition Planning for a Low-Carbon Future.    Yesterday, I joined the panel with Vanessa Havard-Williams OBE Sam Alvis and Fabrizio Palmucci which was expertly convened by Caroline Barr for a wide-ranging discussion on #TransitionPlans.    We started with the current context and ongoing development in the UK following the Transition Finance Market Review and the work of the Transition Finance Council and moved to work through how companies should go about developing a transition strategy with credibility.  Companies should use Transition Plans to drive strategy and change across their organisation looking at both top and bottom line and longer-term business resilience and avoid the trap of treating these as a compliance exercise.     The discussion evolved to consider the opportunities and challenges of access to and provision of #TransitionFinance, considering both how technology and data are evolving to give a better platform for decisions and analysis but with more to do and practical challenges on measurement.     Finally we returned the state of play for the three UK government consultations and reflections on ‘what next’ for Transition Planning.     #Sustainability #ESG #TransitionPlans #TransitionFinance 

ESG is no longer a compliance exercise—it's a financial imperative. Investors are increasingly pricing sustainability into valuations, with companies demonstrating strong ESG performance commanding premium multiples. The modern CFO is at the center of this shift, moving ESG from marketing reports to financial models. This means quantifying climate risk, modeling the ROI of sustainability initiatives, and ensuring green claims are backed by solid data. How is your organization integrating ESG into financial decision-making? #ESG #Sustainability #CFO #Investing #RiskManagement #Finance #AccrueFlow