Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
Environmental, social and governance issues are currently one of the biggest priorities for all organisations around the world.
We support clients in developing their ideas and enabling a positive change in their environment and communities. We work with our clients to deliver their ESG agendas, understanding their corporate strategy, managing risk and opportunities and maximising possibilities.
Drawing on our experience of working with innovative and creative businesses and some of the world’s largest employers, as well as our own internal ESG experiences, we can help you:
- Enhance your environmental practices, marketing and policies to complement and protect your internal and external brand
- Develop working practices that anticipate and meet people’s evolving and diverse interests, needs and ideas
- Establish and maintain rigorous governance procedures across your business to protect your future
Find out more about how we can help businesses keep up to date with the rapidly evolving legislative ESG space:
- Environmental: What are the environmental impacts of your business and what are your opportunities for improvement?
- Social: How does your business impact people and how do you give back socially?
- Governance: How is your business run?
To read about upcoming ESG - related events, click here.
To find out about Lewis Silkin’s ESG initiatives for our people, communities and the environment click here.
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- ESG in the balance: will crypto be a vehicle for advancement or will it undermine positive change?
- The future of beauty isn’t recycling – it’s refills
- Diversity in fashion: a moment of change in the industry?
- Transparency isn’t the whole story
- Why SME businesses need to focus on environmental sustainability
- Lewis Silkin's Dispute Resolution team signs the Greener Litigation Pledge
- Is it time to update your data protection clauses?
- Green leases - meeting environmental targets for landlords and tenants
- How to address allegations of discrimination: Karen Baxter and Lucy Hendley write for EG
- Sustainable hotels: can low-impact travel and luxury coexist?
- Racism in real estate? A sector under the spotlight
- National disability strategy launched
- Positive action speaks louder than words - five principles for employers
- Unconscious bias training should never be a tick-box exercise
- When can menopause form the basis for an Employment Tribunal claim?
- Climate emergency, work and employment law
- Green politics and employment law
- Gender pay gap reporting: 9 common mistakes made by employers
- The Environment Bill is back. Get ready for another round of supply chain audits
- CMA gives businesses until the New Year to ensure their green claims are whiter than white
- Resale, Upcycle & Recycle – but Make it Fashion
- Discrimination issues in the use of AI in the workplace - the ICO view
- Styling secondary, how we’ve all fallen for pre-loved
- New duties to prevent sexual harassment – but not yet
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