Risk Insights Newsletter: September 2021
One Planet ESG GPS Board & C-Suite Chapter
This month, Risk Insights hosted another successful One Planet Chapter Event, focusing on the ESG and how it affects businesses across the Globe and in Africa. Globally ESG is part of the day-to-day life. How do we pivot to this new reality and change in Africa and South Africa? With speakers Olivier Schwab: Head of Technology, World Economic Forum, responsible for the Forum’s Institutional Communities, Andrey Bogdanov, Principal & Interim CEO at Risk Insights – ESG GPS, Jayne Mammatt, Partner at PWC, Deanne Chatterton CEO and Managing partner of Instinctif Partners Africa, Suzanne Ehlers, CEO of Malala Fund we were able to share expertise to support such transition into economy considering ESG factors and prepare Board Members & C-Suite Executives to adopt ESG principles into all aspects of their business. If you missed it you can watch the recording of the session here.
Watch this space and subscribe for updates at Risk Insights site for more future One Planet Chapters!
WEF New Champions Chapter Launch in South Africa:
Risk Insights, a World Economic Forum (WEF) New Champions member and the winner of the WEF New Champions Award for Excellence in Agile Governance, and its strategic partners Imperial Logistics and Instinctif Partners, in September announced launch of the first ever WEF New Champions Chapter in South Africa.
The initiative forms part of The World Economic Forum’s New Champions Community which mobilizes and capacitates invested corporate leaders from mid-sized companies to improve the state of the world. Read more about this ground-breaking event on our website and join us in re-building SA.
Risk Insights is Launching ESG GPS for the Nairobi Securities Exchange
After a successful launch in South Africa and Nigeria, Risk Insights continues to stratify ESG GPS Rating model and will be launching in Kenya in October.
Register now & watch this space for more details at ESG GPS.
Date: Thursday, 28 October 2021
Time: 11:00 – 12:00 (EAT/Kenyan Time)
Risk Insights has Published all of ESG GPS Ratings Online
Corporate governance and ESG principles are taking the world by the storm. Risk Insights as a member of the global community of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum and proudly South African company continues its quest to assist Africa to navigate to sustainability.
To support global trends in Africa we have published all ESG GPS ratings on our website. Ratings of all publicly listed companies at Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Nigerian Exchange Group Limited are now available at Risk Insights website. We believe that little investment from our side will help all stakeholders of these two African continent countries to navigate towards sustainability.
Risk Insights will continue its contribution towards integrating ESG into all companies across all sectors by providing clear, independent, and actionable ESG GPS ratings to authorities, asset managers, corporates, and all stakeholders.
Window on The Week:
We were honoured to have our Interim CEO, Andrey Bogdanov, to host several Window on the Week episodes, covering different aspects of the ESG.
From discussing a report made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to promoting socially inclusivity and economic growth for small & medium size enterprises.
Find our Recent Episodes Below:
Food for thought…
Amazon Will Spend $1.2 Billion For Its Employees To Attend College
Forbes | 9 September 2021
Amazon announced that it will pay 100% of college tuition for its approximately 750,000 U.S. hourly employees. The company estimated that the new benefit along with other new training will offer would require a total investment of $1.2 billion by 2025.…
European Commission | 7 September 2021
The European Commission has today adopted an independently evaluated Green Bond framework, thus taking a step forward towards the issuance of up to €250 billion green bonds, or 30% of Next Generation EU's total issuance…
Walmart | 8 September 2021
Walmart Inc. announced it has successfully priced the company's first green bond. Net proceeds from the $2 billion green bond offering will be used to fund existing and future projects that enable Walmart to achieve its sustainability goals.…
Africa News | 7 September 2021
Global leaders stressed the critical urgency of climate adaptation when they came together in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Monday at a meeting of the Friends of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)…
About Risk Insights
Risk Insights is a professional data analytics consultancy that delivers to its client’s sustainable solutions and products using the latest achievements of data science. Risk Insights provided sustainable solutions with numerous products and services, including but not limited to:
· Data analytics
· Advisory services
· ESG ratings for public companies
· Education
We believe in the impact that sustainability practices can have on the longevity and continuity of a business.
Being on the front line of the development of cutting-edge technology has Risk Insights grown to become the
first developer of an ESG rating tool for Africa.
As such Risk Insights was awarded the Agile Governance Award by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2020.
ESG GPS
Risk Insights proprietary ESG GPS is a sustainability rating model developed by Risk Insights team that has been used to rate all large caps, mid-caps, and small caps on the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange using AI and machine learning. Being the first Africa-focused AI driven ESG sustainability rating tool. Stay tuned for more information!
To find out more about Risk Insights’ ESG GPS, click here.
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The Risk Insights ESG GPS Team
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