ESG Support

What is ESG?
ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. It takes a broader more holistic view of business, beyond environmental issues such as climate change. ESG is a way a business can be screened and its ethics, values and behaviour measured by socially conscious customers.

Improve business. Become more sustainable.
By improving practices under each of the ESG pillars, your businesses can boost productivity, reduce costs and increase demand for products and services – while contributing to a sustainable future.

Let’s have a closer look at each of the pillars.

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Environmental

This aspect focuses on how a business impacts the environment and the steps being taken to improve sustainable practices such as:

maximising energy and water efficiency
minimising waste and pollution
reducing carbon emissions
protecting biodiversity.

Social

This aspect focuses on how a business can:

support a healthy, safe, diverse and inclusive workplace
have a strong social license and positively contribute to the communities in which they operate
operate ethically within supply chains and manages risks such as modern slavery.

Governance

Governance is all about how a business conducts itself. It refers to areas including:

decision-making and leadership within the business
board diversity
business ethics
how businesses manage areas such as cybersecurity, privacy and data protection.

Your business may already be taking steps under the Environmental, Social and/or Governance pillars – you just might not realise it. That’s OK. We’re here to clarify things for you.

The growing importance of ESG

While adopting ESG principles can be complex issue and certainly not a one-size-fits-all, Business Chamber Queensland is here to help you navigate ESG.

Our experienced Sustainability and ESG Consultants are available to support both you with your sustainability and ESG needs.

Would you like to run your business more sustainably? Contact us here.

ESG capacity building

Business Chamber Queensland is here to support businesses in building their ESG capabilities with our in person and online training courses. Our free ecoBiz and Workforce Evolve programs are good places to start. Next, business could consider booking a Sustainability Health Check.

We also have a suite of ESG policy templates available for purchase.

ESG consulting support

While sustainable practices unlock many opportunities and benefits, we understand many business managers are often short on time and resources to action ESG requirements.

Business Chamber Queensland’s experienced Sustainability and ESG Consultants are available to support both members and non-members with their sustainability and ESG needs. Some examples of how we can assist include