Sage Sustainability

29/04/2023

We are ending this BRSR insight series with a recap of this week’s key areas that we covered. We started with highlighting the strategic advantages businesses have in adopting BRSR, and ESG in general too. We went on to broadly discuss the high level objectives that lie behind the nine principles prescribed by NGRBC which is the framework that governs BRSR.

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28/04/2023

Continuing our focus on the prescribed nine principles of NGRBC that govern the BRSR framework, we discuss the Sustainability angle within it. BRSR, in keeping with global trends which are themselves fueled by the growing effects of planet exploitation, has stepped up the focus on building Sustainability, and fixing stronger accountability on companies to align.

27/04/2023

In this edition, we discuss the prescribed nine principles of NGRBC (National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct)that govern the BRSR framework. We highlight here the gist of the core message of these principles – need to look beyond serving the direct shareholders, and striving to balance the interests and expectations of all stakeholders, including employees, consumers, the community around, and the world at large.

26/04/2023

Financial institutions, through their intermediary role in the capital allocation process, have the unique ability to push businesses and industries accelerate their ESG transformations. The following article outlines how banks and financial institutions can play a critical catalyst in the global ESG endeavour starting with their own transformation, and how they are under regulatory radar to do just that. It also highlights the Indian context which is seen lagging relative to the global progress.

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/banking-finance/esg-in-indian-banking-sector-an-equation-of-growing-importance/3033438/lite/

Regulatory bodies are also drafting guidelines and regulations that compel banking and financial institutions to consider ESG in their risk management framework.

25/04/2023

In this edition, we discuss the prescribed nine principles of NGRBC (National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct)that govern the BRSR framework. We particularly focus on the ethos of these principles around the expected business conduct.

24/04/2023

In today’s post, we enlist a few of the valuable strategic advantages businesses stand to gain through effective use of BRSR in its true spirit. While protecting the sole planet that we call home should be a common goal of humanity, companies can hugely benefit from an array of strategic advantages, in the short term, and more so in the long term, by rightly aligning themselves with the new ESG driven world order. Platforms like BRSR are actually meant to help businesses leverage these new opportunities by creating visibility and international competitiveness.

22/04/2023

This week, in our ongoing BRSR insight series, we discussed the MCA21 publication requirement, the scope of some key inclusions in the report, and we also covered the reasons why BRSR is important and relevant to businesses. Watch the recap:

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21/04/2023

In this posting, we help companies understand the importance of BRSR, and what is its business implications. The Board of Directors are increasingly feeling the pressures from the enhanced scrutiny and mounting accountability. They need to ensure that their companies serve multiple stakeholders beyond their direct shareholders, and set objectives that are beyond only profits but also about contributing to a better world for all of humanity – and in fact all other species too!

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20/04/2023

In today’s post, we discuss the importance of BRSR, and what is its business implications. ESG is no more an option. It is defining the future of the world, and particularly of the businesses by changing the fundamental premise on which they operate, and interact with the planet and society. It’s implications to businesses are, therefore, that of make or break!

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19/04/2023

In this edition of our BRSR insight series, we bring your focus on the second type of performance indicators contained in the Section C of the BRSR – ‘Leadership Indicators’. These represent areas where businesses are exceeding the minimum expectations that ‘Essential Indicators’ try to measure, and thus provide an opportunity for them to earn due credit through recognition and appreciation.

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18/04/2023

Continuing our BRSR insight series, we explain the ‘Essential Indicators’ - the first of the two types of performance indicators (the other one being ‘Leadership indicators) to be reported for in the Section C of the BRSR structure. The indicators represent a set of minimum and mandatory expectations from a business, and are hence more critical for compliance. In our next edition, we will cover the ‘Leadership Indicators’ to help you get the big picture!

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17/04/2023

In this 10th edition of our BRSR awareness series, we have highlighted some key inclusions required in the comprehensive BRSR.

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