The recent economic work conference pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to high-quality development as the last word in the new era, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, and promote the economy to achieve effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth. ESG focuses on the coordinated development of environmental, social and corporate governance, and advocates the concept of sustainable development, which is highly consistent with China's high-quality development strategic goals.
On the afternoon of December 21, the 2023 Responsible China ESG Innovation and Development Forum hosted by Nanfang *** with the theme of "Insight Value and Sustainable Development of Carbon Road" was held in Shanghai. This is the first time that the product week of the Southern Think Tank has entered Shanghai. Liu Jiangtao, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and editor-in-chief of Nanfang Society, introduced at the scene that since 2010, Nanfang has launched a special study on "Responsible China", "Through reports in recent years, we can clearly see that the ESG concept has been widely recognized in China and has gradually become an important criterion for measuring the sustainable and high-quality development of enterprises. ”
How to build an ESG rating system with Chinese characteristics that takes into account international consensus?How to implement the ESG concept has become a topic of common concern for guests from academia and business circles in this forum.
Liu Jiangtao, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and editor-in-chief of Nanfang Society, said in his speech that looking forward to 2024, high-quality development is still the focus of economic work, and the active participation of all walks of life is needed to solidly promote green consumption, energy conservation, emission reduction and carbon reduction, and in-depth promotion of ecological civilization construction and green and low-carbon development. The forum aims to build an industry exchange platform, deepen the theory and practice of ESG, share successful experience and innovative achievements, and contribute its wisdom and strength to promote China's economy towards high-quality development.
Du Xiangwan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and deputy director of the National Energy Expert Advisory Committee, highly affirmed the forum, and in his view, the 2023 Responsible China ESG Innovation and Development Forum is a very meaningful conference to fully implement the strategic deployment and guidelines and policies of the "double carbon" work, and promote the development of the economy in a green and high-quality direction.
Du Xiangwan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, sent to share**.
Du Xiangwan said in the theme sharing, "This forum fully reflects the great significance of the main body of enterprise scientific and technological innovation in green and high-quality development and improving the efficiency of the national innovation system, which is conducive to the transformation of dual-carbon scientific and technological achievements into "carbon reduction" productivity, and exerts the aggregation effect of innovation elements, which is conducive to promoting the deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, so as to better transform scientific and technological strength into industrial competitive advantage and enhance the overall efficiency of national dual-carbon work." ”
Zhu Dajian, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and Management of Tongji University and Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of Tongji University, shared his thoughts on moving from ESG to sustainable business. Zhu Dajian believes that ESG is not a Western language, but a joint Chinese language. Compared with the previous CSR, "CSR has no connection with the main business, and ESG can turn the opposing arrows into opposite arrows." The main goal of ESG is not to do selective social good, but to explore new business opportunities in the process of solving social and environmental problems. Zhu Dajian concluded, "The purpose of ESG is not only to share the cake, but to make the cake bigger together with stakeholders. ”
Zhu Dajian also mentioned that ESG is not a simple ethics and morality, but a new set of management tools, which is a professional and standardized tool, involving importance analysis, stakeholder analysis, and chain analysis. Taking materiality analysis as an example, the horizontal axis is the importance of finance, and the traditional maximization of corporate profits is to follow the horizontal axisThe vertical axis is important to society and stakeholders, "because resources (people, money, materials) are limited, and if the company does it on both sides, it will lead to a situation of two skins." ”
Zhu Dajian, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and Management of Tongji University, delivered a keynote speech.
Hu Yinghua, ESG Partner of KPMG China and an expert in the Environmental Impact Assessment Expert Database of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, shared how to use ESG system construction to instigate and drive the high-quality development of enterprises, starting from the frontline practice of providing ESG consulting services to enterprises. She mentioned that factors such as regulatory compliance, peers, leading merchants, increasing resilience, managing change, connecting capital, accessing markets, and enhancing reputation are the main drivers of corporate ESG efforts.
Winnie Hu, ESG Partner, KPMG China, shared how to use ESG system construction to drive high-quality development of enterprises.
In the case of familiar mineral water, "bottled water has basic information such as ingredient list and production location, and in the near future, you can imagine that the packaging will also have a carbon footprint for the production of this bottle of water." Hu Yinghua said that this trend can be seen in the documents released in recent years, because it requires the development of many product carbon footprint calculation methods. It can be seen that regulatory compliance is one of the main drivers of corporate ESG efforts.
In the roundtable discussion session of the forum, Xie Fei, President of Century Huatong, Sun Tianxu, Vice President of Trip.com Group, Ye Fangying, Vice President of Pigeon China, Cai Lihong, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of eHi, Sun Junxiu, Associate Professor of School of Public Economics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Researcher of Fuguo ESG Research Institute of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Mao Juan, Partner of Shanghai Rongzheng Yisiji, shared their views on the theme of "Insight into Value and Sustainable Development of 'Carbon' Road".
In the roundtable dialogue session, the guests shared their views on the theme of "Insight Value, Sustainable Development of 'Carbon' Road".
Since the launch of the "2023 ESG Innovation Cases and Clue Collection" activity in September this year, Nanfang has collected nearly 400 practical cases from hotels, retail, FMCG, finance, Internet, energy and other industries. On the same day, Nandu also released the important think tank results - "2023 ESG Sustainable Development Innovation Trend Research Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report").
From the overall perspective of the report, the survey companies have a stronger focus on social issues and a stronger ability to act, followed by the environment, which is obviously lacking in internal governanceAt the same time, the attention of enterprises to ESG issues is closely related to national policies, and most companies are more enthusiastic about environmental and social issues because of policy encouragement or external pressure, and lack motivation to improve the level of internal governance. The top 5 topics that the surveyed enterprises paid the most attention to were charity and public welfare activities, greenhouse gas emissions, employee rights and development, rural revitalization, and energy efficiency.
On the same day, Nandu released a research report on ESG sustainable development innovation trends.
The report argues that the development of China's ESG market is inseparable from "top-down" institutional guarantees and policy promotion. 2022 is a crucial year in China's ESG development process, and a series of ESG-related policies issued by the first and local governments have been further deepened in this year, and in 2023, ESG will gradually be mainstreamed in China's policy discourse, and more and more companies will choose to incorporate ESG into their development strategies.
At the event, the list of ESG sustainable innovation pioneers and pioneer enterprises in 2023 was also announced. Cases from 20 companies, including Trip.com Group, eHi Chuxing, Tencent, etc., won the "Sustainable Development Innovation Pioneer Enterprise Case".Xie Fei, President of Century Huatong, and Sui Guodong, Chairman of Worthbuy Technology, won the title of "Pioneer of Sustainable Development and Innovation". In addition, 8 institutions, including MSC Consulting and Shanghai Rongzheng Yisiji Enterprise Services, won the honor of "Brand Reputation Management Pioneer Institution".
Producer: Nandu Political and Business Data News Department, Shanghai News Department.
Co-ordinator: Zhen Qin, Ma Ningning, Tian Aili, Shi Li.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhao Weijia, Wang Chenchen, Lin Wenqi, intern Wei Shanshan.