The lessons learnt from the 2008 financial crisis and recent corporate scandals related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) compliance issues, Volkswagen’s ‘dieselgate’ being the most recent one, have stressed the need for regulation in the European Union. In essence, the new disclosure regulation of non-financial information by businesses will help measure, monitor and control the behaviour of companies and their impact on society. Such a reporting tool should cont

Leaders Arena has recently published a study on the material impact of corporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) breaches, focusing on five high-profile corporate scandals which have taken place since 2010. The paper argues that some of these incidents could have been avoided altogether and, in all instances, their impact minimised had companies embraced three easy-to-implement management strategies. Miguel Santisteve, Managing Director of Leaders Arena, explains h