In many rooms these days, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) action seems inevitable. Corporates are talking about. Investors are talking about it. Governments, regulators, and even farmers are talking about it. 

And yet for many of us, the questions of what exactly ESG is, what pursuing these goals means, and how soon acting on them will be mandatory remain unanswered. Then just when it feels like we start to get a handle on a definition or a timeline, you leave one geography and enter another, and it seems like all the rules have changed! 

This level of ambiguity has piqued our interest to learn more about trends in ESG, global variations in ESG practices, and what the future might hold. So this week, we’re sitting down with Catherine Marriott, recent Nuffield Australia Awardee, who has spent the last year traveling around the world to learn about the current and future state of ESG in agriculture.

Today, Sarah and Catherine discuss: 

• How the question “who pays?” gets scaled when ESG makes the transition from investor demand to governmental regulation
• Why inconsistent definitions, models, and methodologies are still holding the ESG space back, and what that will mean for the next few years
• The interconnectedness of impactful work, which often doesn’t fall very cleanly in any of the siloed ESG buckets

Useful Links:

• ESG vs Impact Investing
• Climate-related financial disclosures series
• From climate measurement to risk mitigation with Kilter Rural (pod)

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