On December 5, the 2023 Innovation Summit of "Innovation Gathering Energy and Co-chain Future" jointly organized by The Economic Observer and Jingguan Media was held in Beijing. At the theme forum on "ESG and High-quality Development of Enterprises" jointly sponsored by the China ESG Research Institute of Capital University of Economics and the Economic Observer, Wang Kai, Assistant to the Executive Dean of the China ESG Research Institute of Capital University of Economics and Technology and Director of the Evaluation Center, and the guests discussed the topic of ESG.
Wang Zhifeng, Executive Director of Tencent Financial Research Institute, said that in recent years, Tencent Financial Research Institute has continued to carry out practical work to promote ESG construction in the fields of basic research, promoting standard construction and investor education. In 2021, Tencent Financial Research Institute and the Green Finance Committee of the China Financial Association set up an ESG research group to conduct in-depth research on some leading domestic companies on the basis of systematically combing the annual progress, regulatory rules and evaluation methodology of global ESG **, and trying to build an ESG evaluation system for Chinese listed companies. At the same time, he has given full play to his accumulation in the field of ESG professional research, and has successively assisted the Institutional Reform Commission, the **Investment** Association, the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China, the Internet Finance Association of China and other institutions to participate in the construction of a number of group standards and industry standards related to ESG and green finance. At the same time, it continued to make efforts in the field of investor education, created the "ESG Insights" public welfare science popularization column, and jointly held the national "dual carbon" strategy and ESG summit forum with the Financial Street Service Bureau and other relevant departments.
In the view of Wang **, general manager of the regional market of Zhongchuang Carbon Investment, since the country put forward the dual carbon goal, many places have appeared called carbon peak charge, carbon charge, sports carbon reduction and other words, which means that everyone's cognition has a change process. He also believes that for Chinese enterprises, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is a very important goal in the field of ESG, and it should be said that Chinese enterprises have begun to move in the direction of obvious progress in terms of cognition and action, and it is a more and more solid stage.
Deloitte China Climate Change & Sustainability Group Director Jian Li said that Deloitte has been working in the ESG field for 20 years and has provided ESG-related services to thousands of clients, including ESG information disclosure consulting, ESG report assurance, ESG rating diagnosis and improvement, and ESG strategic transformation consulting. From the perspective of ESG information disclosure, we generally provide services in terms of disclosure compliance standards, disclosure content framework, and optimization of disclosure details. From the perspective of rating diagnosis and improvement, we start from the two starting points of ESG report and rating response, and improve the company's rating according to the four dimensions of governance, strategy, risk management, indicators and goals. At the same time, more and more enterprises are beginning to realize the need to integrate ESG into their strategic planning and daily operations, and lead their development through sustainable business thinking. In this regard, we propose AIO (Advisory Consulting, Implementation, Operation) integrated corporate ESG strategic transformation and improvement services, which not only provide consulting services, but also take charge of long-term implementation and operation. It can meet the operational needs of enterprises starting from strategic planning, architecture design and other consulting needs, to daily ESG information disclosure and related responses, ESG management of the first chain, and implementation of ESG systems.
Huang Dongping, an independent reviewer of the risk management department of Yunnan International Trust, said that ESG is more like a comprehensive assessment and evaluation system, although it focuses on non-financial information, but these non-financial information will ultimately affect the financial performance of the enterprise and is assigned to the overall evaluation of the enterprise. ESG not only requires enterprises to "learn Xi well", that is, to have good business performance, but also requires enterprises to become "three good students" and develop in all aspects in an all-round way to achieve sustainable and high-quality development of enterprises.