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Corporate governance, transparency, sustainability reporting and compliance.

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What Is an ESG Rating? How Businesses Benefit From an Independent Assessment

What Is an ESG Rating? How Businesses Benefit From an Independent Assessment

An ESG rating is the result of an independent assessment of how a business manages its environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities. An explanation of the rating scale, the assessment process and five benefits with banks, investors and customers.

What Is ESG? A Beginner's Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

What Is ESG? A Beginner's Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

ESG is a set of criteria for measuring how a business manages its environmental and social impacts and the quality of its governance. For small and medium-sized enterprises, ESG does not need to start with a thick report — just five steps in the right order.

What Is an ESG Report? How to Structure a GRI Sustainability Report

What Is an ESG Report? How to Structure a GRI Sustainability Report

An ESG report is how a business discloses its environmental, social and governance performance to stakeholders. The standard GRI structure, eight steps to preparing a report and the mistakes that turn it into a “marketing brochure”.

What Is Greenwashing? 7 Warning Signs and How Businesses Can Avoid the Risk

What Is Greenwashing? 7 Warning Signs and How Businesses Can Avoid the Risk

Greenwashing means exaggerating or making unsubstantiated environmental claims. As markets tighten the rules on green claims, it is a real legal and reputational risk. Seven warning signs and a process for controlling claims.

What Is Double Materiality? The First Step in Every ESG Report

What Is Double Materiality? The First Step in Every ESG Report

Double materiality looks in two directions: how a business affects the environment and society, and how sustainability issues affect its finances. A five-step guide to carrying out a materiality assessment.

Green Credit and the Green Taxonomy: How to Prove a Project Is “Green” for Preferential Loans

Green Credit and the Green Taxonomy: How to Prove a Project Is “Green” for Preferential Loans

Banks have green funding but need evidence that projects are genuinely green. Vietnam's national green taxonomy and a transparent ESG profile are the key to accessing green credit on better terms.

Business Integrity: Anti-Corruption With ISO 37001 and a Compliance Programme

Business Integrity: Anti-Corruption With ISO 37001 and a Compliance Programme

Anti-corruption is the foundation of the “G” in ESG. International partners require suppliers to have a clear compliance programme. A guide to building an anti-bribery management system under ISO 37001.

Climate Risk Management Under TCFD and IFRS S2: A Guide for Vietnamese Businesses

Climate Risk Management Under TCFD and IFRS S2: A Guide for Vietnamese Businesses

Vietnam is one of the countries hardest hit by climate change. Physical and transition risks are already financial risks. How to identify climate risks, analyse scenarios and integrate climate risk into corporate governance.

What Are the ISSB Standards (IFRS S1, S2)? A Sustainability Reporting Roadmap for Listed Companies

What Are the ISSB Standards (IFRS S1, S2)? A Sustainability Reporting Roadmap for Listed Companies

The ISSB's IFRS S1 and S2 are becoming the common language of sustainability disclosure for investors. A plain-English explanation of the two standards, how they differ from GRI and five preparation steps for Vietnamese businesses.