Ensuring ESG Impact: Four Actionable Recommendations for a Dependable Path | Milken Institute

With Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing becoming mainstream, it is urgent to develop a standardised set of information that investors and companies can use in their decision-making process. Information consistency, integrity and trustworthiness, and appropriate evaluation of the impact of the ESG-related efforts are essential to ensure positive spill-over in societies, countries and the environment. We urge the G20 to play a proactive role in defining standardised disclosures and narrative, and assessing companies’ ESG policies. More specifically, we recommend identifying a vision that will encompass the final goals at the society level and backtrack to define companies’ goals, in terms of ESG policies, and metrics to achieve them