ESG Performance Measurement

A Guide to Selecting and Monitoring Environmental, Social and Governance Metrics

Created by: Ross Maynard
Process Improvement Specialist

What Will I Learn?

• Give an overview of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Planetary Boundaries
• Describe the main organisations offering sustainability reporting standards
• Describe the main ESG investment ratings agencies
• Explore the World Economic Forum ESG metrics
• Select ESG indicators appropriate to their organisation
• Describe the characteristics of ESG performance measures and problems associated with their measurement
• Distinguish between impact, output and impact measures
• Describe the Future Fit Business Benchmark
• Describe the international standards that related to the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions
• Identify the main greenhouse gases caused by human activity
• Discuss, with examples, the three categories of greenhouse gas emissions
• Explore national greenhouse gas emission conversion tables used for calculating an organisation’s carbon footprint
• Create a plan to identify and measure their organisation’s greenhouse gas emissions
• Calculate their organisation’s carbon footprint
• Develop a plan to improve their organisation’s ESG performance

Requirements

• There are no pre-course requirements

Target audience

• Business managers
• Business owners
• Accountants
• Finance officers
• Students of business management
• Environmental champions
• ESG activists