Today (January 12), the fifth 2022 cro global responsibility summit, initiated by Simeon corporate social responsibility promotion center, CO sponsored by daily economic news and hosted by business channel, was successfully held in Shanghai. With the theme of “sustainable, driving future business”, the summit discussed the future business forms and trends driven by sustainability with representatives of international and Chinese organizations, government departments, commercial enterprises and academic institutions around the three topics of ESG investment promoting high-quality development, Social Enterprise Co creation promoting common prosperity and double carbon goal leading a better business. The summit aims to promote communication, sharing and cooperation among participants, so as to promote the implementation of global sustainable development goals in the Chinese market and help the development of business and social environment for mutual benefit and win-win results.
At the summit, LV Jianzhong, director of the board of directors of gri, Guo Peiyuan, general manager of shangdaozong and chairman of Simeon, Zhu Dajian, distinguished professor and director of the Institute of sustainable development and management of Tongji University, Wang Hua, President of Asia of Lyon business school, France, Shanghai Datun Energy Resources Co.Ltd(600508) Li Jin, deputy general manager of the exchange, Shanghai Lujiazui Finance & Trade Zone Development Co.Ltd(600663) vice president of the green financial development center of the Financial City Sun Jie, general manager of vision intelligent carbon management business, Ma Kangwei, vice president of communication and sustainable development of SAP Greater China, Huang Bo, deputy general manager of daily economic news, and hundreds of representatives of top enterprises and international institutions from China attended the summit to talk about “sustainability and driving future business”.
In addition, Guo Peiyuan, general manager of Shangdao Zongheng, released the top ten trends of CSR in China in 2022. The “chief responsible officer” jointly sponsored by the daily economic news and Shangdao Zongheng officially announced the selection results, including SAP, Sephora, Orient Securities Company Limited(600958) , hixue.com, Longi Green Energy Technology Co.Ltd(601012) , Chengdu Hongqi Chain Co.Ltd(002697) , China International Marine Containers (Group) Co.Ltd(000039) Yixian e-commerce and nine leading enterprises of Yishilu Luxottica were elected as the “chief responsible officer” of this year.
gaze at the ESG field
ESG investment has gradually attracted the attention of the mainstream market and capital market. Under this trend, how to improve the company’s ESG governance and promote the high-quality development of enterprises is a higher requirement for cros (corporate social responsibility officers).
In the closed door discussion session of the summit on the same day, the topics mainly focused on the double carbon goal and ESG, the company’s ESG management and practice.
Zhu Dajian, distinguished professor of Tongji University and director of the Institute of sustainable development and management, said that carbon reduction requires dual carbon reduction, one is energy carbon reduction, and the other is carbon reduction in the supply chain of material flow. Carbon reduction requires enterprises to fulfill their corporate responsibilities on the ground and implement them systematically in the whole value chain according to their own conditions.
Zhu Dajian takes the construction industry as an example. The carbon emission of the construction industry is not dominant in its operation, but if the whole life cycle of the industry is considered and steel, cement and plastics are taken into account, the carbon emission will increase significantly. Therefore, when formulating carbon strategy, enterprises should consider the operation stage and the whole value chain.
At the same time, the cro global responsibility summit presented more in-depth interpretation and high-quality academic dialogue in the ESG field. In recent years, changes are quietly taking place in the field of business or economic activities. In the past, the mode of business activities was based on the model centered on the interests of shareholders, but now, with the continuous promotion and deepening of ESG’s sustainable development, business activities are turning to interest oriented related activities.
LV Jianzhong, director of the board of directors of gri, a global reporting initiative, believes that the ultimate goal pursued by both CSR and ESG is sustainable development. Therefore, for enterprises, if they can firmly grasp the business direction of sustainable strategy and implement ESG and CSR to the extent that enterprises should be responsible to stakeholders, sustainable business can have a broad road. However, LV Jianzhong believes that no matter how the strategic path is explored and changed, the four basic elements of the enterprise’s core value, the enterprise’s business field, the enterprise’s key skills and the comprehensive resources mastered by the enterprise must be closely combined with major social and environmental problems.
At present, ESG has been paid more and more attention at both the enterprise level and the regulatory level. How to deepen ESG governance and speed up the ESG process can also be found in this forum. Wang Hua, President of the Asian campus of Lyon business school in France, delivered a keynote speech on “three forces to speed up the ESG of Chinese listed companies”, discussing the problems and pain points of Listed Companies in ESG governance,
Wang Hua believes that at present, the three forces of geo economy, global supply chain and responsible investment are accelerating the ESG of Chinese listed companies. Chinese listed companies will take the initiative to improve the company’s strategic height, take ESG as the starting point, systematically realize the balance between growth and risk control, the double growth of medium and long-term economic and social benefits, and finally build a respected enterprise. From the perspective of listed companies, the bosses of Listed Companies in China should take the initiative to make up for the required course of ESG.
ESG investment promotes high-quality development
In the first year of the 14th five year plan, under the background of promoting common prosperity, the state also put forward higher requirements for high-quality, green and healthy development of society and enterprises, and further promoted social enterprises to fully understand their responsibilities and responsibilities.
In the afternoon, the summit focused on three topics: ESG investment to promote high-quality development, social enterprises to jointly create and promote common prosperity, and double carbon goal to lead a better business.
From the current exchange regulatory policies and regulations, high-quality ESG information disclosure is one of the foundations and inevitable trend of high-quality development. In recent years, with the deepening of the concept of social responsibility and the development of responsible investment and green finance, the exchange is also constantly improving the requirements for enterprise ESG information disclosure.
How to improve ESG governance? Li Jin, deputy general manager of Shanghai Environment Group Co.Ltd(601200) energy exchange, Du Jinsong, vice president of Huatie Media Group Co., Ltd., and Tian Yuan, senior vice president of qijia.com, participated in the ESG round table dialogue entitled “ESG investment promotes high-quality development”, and launched a dialogue on what new challenges and opportunities ESG will bring to enterprises with the support of capital.
In addition, at the summit, Wang Xiangyi, vice president and Secretary General of China Association for the promotion of international non-governmental organization cooperation, gave a speech on “joint creation of social enterprises and promotion of sustainable development”; Kari niedfeldt, general manager of CECP, brought the research release of global responsible investment and ESG trend; Guo Peiyuan, general manager of Shangdao Zongheng, combined with the social and corporate environment, shared the cutting-edge interpretation and analysis results and summarized the top ten cutting-edge trends of CSR.
The latest research results on the top ten trends of CSR in China in 2022 show that: first, dual carbon Leadership: a new development concept in the new development stage; 2、 Zero carbon competition: strive to be a leader on the road of zero carbon transformation; 3、 Order reconstruction: exploring the value consensus of sustainable development; 4、 Common prosperity: improve distribution and give consideration to efficiency and fairness; 5、 Decent work: multiple factors to protect the rights and interests of migrant workers; 6、 Rural Revitalization: accelerating agricultural and rural modernization; 7、 Responsible investment: financial markets accelerate to embrace ESG; 8、 Small steps: ESG information disclosure requirements have increased; 9、 Pluralistic inclusion: caring for minorities from a multidimensional perspective; 10、 After the wave hit: generation Z changed consumption and workplace.
At the end of the summit, Huang Bo, deputy general manager of the daily economic news and general manager of Shanghai center, Guo Peiyuan, general manager of the general manager of the trade center, chairman Guo Peiyuan, jointly announced the list of 2022CRO chief responsibility officers. The list covers computer software industry, cosmetic retail industry, securities business trust industry, education and training industry, photovoltaic industry, wholesale and retail trade, etc. Logistics equipment manufacturing, beauty industry and optoelectronics industry, sap, Sephora, Orient Securities Company Limited(600958) , hi learning network, Longi Green Energy Technology Co.Ltd(601012) , Chengdu Hongqi Chain Co.Ltd(002697) , China International Marine Containers (Group) Co.Ltd(000039) , Yixian e-commerce and Yishilu Luxottica were selected.
