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The conversation around sustainability in the private markets has intensified considerably in the past year. Even as some critics accuse the industry of greenwashing, others express concerns about whether private equity firms are prioritizing sustainability objectives over financial returns.
In hopes of shedding light on the real status of sustainability in the industry—and perhaps reconciling these two opposing points of view—we offer BCG’s first annual “Sustainability in Private Equity” report. Following up on last year’s initial analysis of early data from the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI), this year’s report offers a considerably more detailed picture of the PE industry’s current performance on social, energy, and sustainability metrics. Deep dives into decarbonization, renewable energy use, and social considerations offer insights into the importance of these key metrics as indicators of business excellence, how performance is changing over time, and how it is connected to financial outcomes.
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Private equity firms must accept that ESG has become a strategic imperative, says Petra Funds Group MD Charlie Chipchase. So, what can we expect in 2024?
In 2023, private equity firms continued to integrate ESG considerations into their investment processes with Limited partners (LPs) and regulators continued to prioritise the importance of transparency and reporting related to ESG factors.
So, what can General Partners expect as they look to 2024?
1. Move toward outsourcing routine ESG monitoring and reporting 2. The (rising) cost of ESG 3. Increased focus on Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) reporting 4. Continued politicisation of ESG, particularly in the US 5. Rise in ESG litigation and enforcement actions
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Hoy nadie se sorprende al ver paneles fotovoltaicos anclados en los tejados o incluso los balcones de casas particulares. Las familias los instalan porque...
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Por Miguel Ángel Calderón
El consumo, ese acto tan cotidiano y a la vez tan complejo, es una parte integral de nuestras vidas. Consumimos alimentos, consumimos información, consumimos productos y servicios. Pero, ¿alguna vez nos hemos detenido a reflexionar sobre lo que realmente significa consumir? ¿Qué implicaciones éticas y filosóficas tiene este acto?Antes que nada, quiero dejar claro quiero criticar per se el acto de consumir. Al fin y al cabo, todos lo hacemos para cubrir nuestras necesidades básicas. No obstante, es importante analizar nuestras prácticas y sí cuestionar aquellas suposiciones que damos por sentado la mayor parte del tiempo.¿Por qué adquirimos los objetos y servicios que elegimos? ¿Es simplemente para satisfacer nuestras necesidades físicas, o hay algo más en juego? Jean Baudrillard, un filósofo francés, nos propone una perspectiva intrigante. Según él, vivimos en lo que denomina una «sociedad de consumo» (1970). Pero, ¿qué significa esto realmente?
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New research from the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance finds a growing market opportunity for sustainable travel, with more world travelers saying they are influenced by green factors.
The report showed that while price remained the leading factor in travelers’ decisions about where to stay, sustainability is growing in importance — a trend that is likely to accelerate as younger travelers grow more dominant in the market.
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The report, which includes a survey of 1,000 business leaders, looks at nine countries, including the United States, China, Britain and Spain, focusing on the energy, technology, infrastructure, transport and logistics sectors.
It defines green skills as "the knowledge, competencies, values and attributes needed to develop and support a sustainable, low-carbon and resource-efficient society", be it via technical skills, such as installing solar panels, or broader practices like corporate sustainability reporting.
While a vast majority of business leaders surveyed see skills as the main driver of the green transition, only 55% of them have put in place, or plan to, programmes for their workers to get these skills.
"This leaves a large fraction of the workforce without crucial skills training, which risks obstructing progress in the green transition," said the report.
Overall, 62% of respondents expect such bottlenecks to delay the transition, and many respondents want governments to pitch in with grants or tax relief for companies investing in green skill programmes, as well as funding for educational courses.
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We often think of burnout as an individual problem, solvable with simple-fix techniques like “learning to say no”, more yoga, better breathing, practicing resilience. Yet, evidence is mounting that personal, band-aid solutions are not enough to combat an epic and rapidly evolving workplace phenomenon. In fact, they might be harming, not helping the battle. With “burnout” now officially recognized by the World Health Organization, the responsibility for managing it has shifted away from employees and toward employers. Burnout is preventable. It requires good organizational hygiene, better data, asking more timely and relevant questions, smarter budgeting (more micro-budgeting), and ensuring that wellness offerings are included as part of your well-being strategy
“Transition finance” is shaping up to be one of the new year’s most important subjects for anyone professing to care about the climate crisis.
There’s a “whole world of transition finance being created as we speak,” said Mark Carney, the United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance, during a panel discussion at last month’s COP28 in Dubai.
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En un mercado saturado, el dominio aplastante de la industria fotovoltaica china no solo se ha consolidado, sino que ha reducido a la mitad el precio de los...
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Por Ricard Lloria Llauradó
“Una época es oscura, no cuando la luz no brilla; sino cuando la gente rechaza verla.”James A. MichenerSomos conscientes que la palabra por sí sola, “resistencia”, nos da y podríamos estar hablando sobre muchos tipos, situaciones de resistencias a “algo”.Como nota introductoria podríamos hablar que antes de la década de 1930, la «resistencia» se refería a manifestaciones en Ciencias en general, por ejemplo por fuerza que se opone al avance de “algo”. Comenzó a ser utilizado como un fenómeno humano en dos contextos.Uno de ellos fue la idea de una oposición colectiva (coordinada) colectiva a algo, por lo general sugiriendo base ilícita, por ejemplo, la Resistencia de los combatientes en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, para distinguir la forma simplemente la oposición. El otro uso era de la psicología para explicar un fenómeno en un paciente que, de una manera inconsciente, intenta o evita confrontar lo que nos parecen las fuerzas, energías «verdaderas» que nos causan y nos producen angustias, ansiedades.
Via Ricard Lloria, Mariano Ramos Mejia
Me ha llamado la atención la reciente iniciativa de Amazon de incursionar en la producción de hidrógeno para alimentar vehículos en sus centros. Este proyecto, en colaboración con Plug Power, representa un paso significativo hacia la sostenibilidad en las operaciones logísticas.
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Desarrollada por la Universidad de Stanford, el Departamento de Energía de EEUU y Toyota, la nueva pila elimina una de las grandes barreras de los coches de hidrógeno: el alto coste del catalizador...
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Private equity has a significant opportunity to create financial and societal value through sustainability. PE firms that invest in improving the management and quality of companies to enable increased valuation multiples can also bring sustainability to their value creation tool box. Unfortunately, many PE firms do not yet know how to identify, create or capture that value.
Our research into both PE firms (GPs) and institutional investors (LPs) finds that most are focused solely on identifying major red flags during due diligence and collecting a few ESG reporting metrics once an investment is made.
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En el mundo empresarial y organizacional, mirando todo el panorama actual, dónde cada vez más cualquier conflict, pandemia, cambio climático, desestabilización a nivel local nos puede afectar a nivel global, es cuando entran las personas que ocurran lugares dentro de las empresas como son los directores o responsables de compras desempeñan un papel crucial en la gestión eficiente de los recursos y la maximización de los beneficios de una organización. Estas personas y profesionales son responsables de supervisar y coordinar las actividades de adquisición de bienes y servicios, asegurándonos que se realicen de manera efectiva y rentable. Pero, ¿cuáles son las habilidades técnicas que un director o responsable de compras podría tener para tener éxito en su función? En esta entrada, exploraremos las habilidades técnicas y competencias esenciales que todo director o responsable de compras podría poseer, desde la gestión de compras hasta la adquisición estratégica y los servicios de IT, servicios generales.
“Las personas tienden a dedicarse tan enteramente a la actividad, que pierden de vista sus propósitos.” – George S. Odiorne
La importancia del control de inventario, la gestión de los KPI´s y los recursos humanos dentro de la cadena de suministro en las PYMES junto al entorno organizacional de hoy en día, nos encontramos con una situación repleta de volatilidad e incertidumbre, dónde confrontamos desde los responsables, directores de compras, contratación etc., (CPOs, SCM, CPL etc.) con nuestros proveedores, abastecedores con desafíos y oportunidades sin precedentes.
Amazon se ha subido al carro de la inteligencia artificial (IA), pero en esta ocasión, ChatGPT le ha jugado una mala pasada...
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El invento podría permitir fabricar teléfonos móviles que nunca tendrían que ser cargados.También se podría aplicar a muchos otros dispositivos, como drones con una capacidad de vuelo ilimitada...
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Meeting Customer Demand While Cutting Carbon Emissions, Walmart is Fast Rolling out Drone Deliveries, says Senior SVP of Automation, Prathibha Rajashekhar Amazon is expanding its drone deliveries beyond the US for the first time, rolling out its Prime Air service in the UK and Italy by the end of 2024; while Walmart, which claims to have completed more than 20,000 drone-based deliveries since first taking to the skies two years ago, is taking its drone service to new heights.
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Esto no lo esperábamos. Betavolt Technology, una compañía china especializada en la fabricación de semiconductores, baterías y nuevos materiales ha anunciado...
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Since the start of the decade, supply chains have become a strategic pillar for many global businesses and industries. What constitutes a well-run supply chain? Depends on who you ask. Sometimes it’s about cost and efficiency, other times customer service versus profitability. Most recently, resiliency, sustainability and artificial intelligence (AI) have been stealing headlines.
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Pour toute entreprise, disposer du bon stock, en juste quantité et au bon moment constitue la base du « bien vendre » … en maîtriser le coût, l’une des clés de la rentabilité. Une équation complexe à résoudre, car elle exige un travail d’optimisation à la fois sur les frais fixes (surfaces, matériel, machines), les charges variables et les frais de […]
Many strategy execution processes fail because “new strategies” are often not strategies at all. A real strategy involves a clear set of choices that define what the firm is going to do and what it’s not going to do. Many strategies fail to get implemented because they do not represent such a set of clear choices. And many so-called strategies are in fact goals. “We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. It does not tell you what you are going to do; all it does is tell you what you hope the outcome will be. But you’ll still need a strategy to achieve it. Another reason why many implementation efforts fail is that executives see it as a pure top-down, two-step process: “The strategy is made; now we implement it.” That’s unlikely to work. A successful strategy execution process is seldom a one-way trickle-down cascade of decisions.
Hay muchos proyectos previstos a partir de 2024 que aguardarán a ver cómo queda la medida anunciada por el Gobierno tras la presión de grandes empresas del sector para acabar con el impuesto energético extraordinario.
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