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今こそ、機関投資家はESGの「S」に取り組むべき

経済的リターンとともに社会や環境に測定可能な価値を生み出すことをめざす「インパクト投資」。社会の多様性や公平性、包摂性の向上に向けたインパクト投資をさらに拡大するために、機関投資家はこれまでのやり方をどう変えるべきでしょうか。

サステナブルな社会に向け、行動のとき

サステナブルな社会の実現のために特に重要な7つのアジェンダについて、国内外の最新動向とともに、BCGの取り組み、考察などをご紹介します。

BCGカーボンニュートラル実践経営

各国のダイナミクスの中で日本や日本企業がカーボンニュートラルにどう対峙するべきか、ヒントを提示するとともに、企業が描くカーボンニュートラルへのロードマップを3つのステップ、10の取り組みに分け、事例をまじえて解説します。

サステナビリティと成長戦略・ビジョンの関係性：味の素グループ

味の素グループは、創業以来一貫して、事業を通じて社会や地域の課題の解決に取り組み、社会的価値を創造することで経済的価値を創出してきました。このPodcastでは、サステナビリティ領域において日本で先進的な取り組みをしている味の素株式会社の森島 千佳執行役に、BCGのマネージング・ディレクター＆パートナー 折茂 美保がサステナビリティの経営への織り込み方や味の素が掲げるビジョンなどについて伺いました。

実効性あるESG戦略策定への道筋――独建材企業クセラグループの事例より

CO2排出量の削減が難しい産業の企業は良いESG評価を得ることができない、という認識が一部にあります。しかし、そうした業界でも戦略的にESG目標を設定して実行に移し、成果をあげている企業もあります。

サステナビリティ・トランスフォーメーションへの6つのステップ

真にサステナブルな事業へと変革して優位性を構築するには、ESG視点を事業のあらゆる要素に組み込むとともに、ビジネスとしての価値を獲得することが求められます。

Climate Adaptation and Resilience

The So What Podcast from BCG:
Rich Lesser on Climate, Hard Truths, and Hope

Climate change is precipitating the largest industrial transformation since World War II, perhaps ever. BCG’s global chair, Rich Lesser, explains what it means for CEOs and business leaders.

AI Is Essential for Solving the Climate Crisis

Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence can be used to help manage challenging issues related to mitigating climate change and improving adaptation and resilience.

Let Science Be the Guide for Net-Zero Targets

Unless companies’ climate targets align with the latest science, they won’t be sufficient. Leaders must embrace bold action internally, within their value chains, and beyond.

Education as a Catalyst for Climate Progress

Education is a powerful means of spurring behavioral change and collective action, cultivating green skills, ensuring a just transition to a sustainable economy, and building communities’ adaptive capacity.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words in Delivering Net Zero

By gaining deeper insights into the status and efficacy of their climate initiatives, companies can accelerate efforts across the value chain.

Sustainable Investing and ESG

Private Equity Should Take the Lead in Sustainability, Here’s How

Private equity is under increasing pressure to integrate ESG into investment strategies. That is a huge opportunity for the industry--and for society. In a recent issue of Harvard Business Review, BCG experts examine how PE firms can lead the way in sustainable investing.

From Compliance to Courage in ESG

Companies that view environmental, social, and governance initiatives as an exercise in compliance, rather than a source of competitive advantage, are leaving substantial value on the table.

Directors Can Up Their Game on Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues

Board members at companies across geographies and industries understand that competitive advantage increasingly demands sustainability. And that is rapidly pushing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues higher on board agendas.

How EQT Puts Purpose Into Practice in Private Equity

CEO Christian Sinding Discusses ESG’s Importance to His Company and the Industry.

Global Health

BCG Executive Perspectives: How to End the Global Pandemic in 2022

BCG Executive Perspectives offer insights on global topics that matter most to leaders in the public and private sectors. Explore these topics and read the latest thinking from BCG's experts below.

Reimagining Global Health After the Coronavirus

What has worked, what can be improved, and what needs to be reimagined so that we are better prepared for the next pandemic and better able to improve health in the world’s poorest nations?

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What Happens after We Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine?

BCG Managing Director & Partner Johanna Benesty looks at barriers to "equitable access"—making sure COVID-19 therapeutics are available to all—and shares a creative approach to vaccine research and development.

Vaccinating Nations: Country Planning for an Unprecedented Immunization Campaign

The need for a successful roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines cannot be overstated. What are the four key elements to consider when planning an end-to-end vaccination deployment?

Economic Development

Economic Resilience Is Built on Societal Well-Being

Governments need to look beyond traditional economic metrics like GDP to foster sustainable development and prepare for future crises. They can start by focusing on three priorities.

How African Countries Can Forge an Inclusive Economic Recovery

Governments that can balance urgent economic stabilization with structural reforms supporting long-term development will build a stronger foundation for the future. Nigeria’s inclusive approach is a case in point.

Humanitarian Response

Three Principles to Guide Africa’s COVID-19 Response

African governments must develop a response that is comprehensive, adaptive, and implemented effectively in order to take fast action in several areas.

Food Systems and Security

Agribusiness Can Lead the Shift to Sustainable Farming

New regulations are pushing farmers and their suppliers to adopt environmental practices. Traditionalists see this as a disruption, but leaders will treat it as an opportunity.

Transforming Africa’s Food Systems from the Demand Side

Efforts that focus on increasing subsistence farmers’ yields have achieved scant success. It’s time for a radical rethinking of food policies on the continent.

The Time Is Ripe for Food Traceability

Food traceability is here to stay. The question is whether food companies, distributors, and retailers treat it as a regulatory burden or a strategic opportunity.

Closing the Food Waste Gap

In the face of the looming food crisis, the cost of inaction is enormous—but so is the opportunity to make a difference.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

To Fix the Labor Shortage, Solve the Care Crisis

The US desperately needs workers. Workers desperately need help taking care of their children and (increasingly) their parents.

How to Advance Gender Diversity in the Workplace

Gender diversity can be a profound business challenge—or a source of competitive advantage. But it’s not women who need to change. It’s the workplace.

Racial Equity in Banking Starts with Busting the Myths

Misconceptions about Black and Latinx un/underbanked households make it hard for the financial sector to address the problem effectively.

The So What Podcast from BCG: Are You Bridging or Broadening the Racial Wealth Gap?

To create inclusive workforces and inclusive products, companies must treat inclusion as a business innovation. Bridging the racial wealth gap requires committed resources and responsibilities.

Education

Turning More Tassels

Postsecondary institutions are facing calls for accountability. Smart academic advising reforms can boost graduation rates—without breaking the bank.

Connect All Students: How States and School Districts Can Close the Digital Divide

Due to COVID-19, over 50 million K–12 public school students in the United States are learning remotely. How can equitable access to high-speed internet and computing devices be achieved for all?

A More Accurate Way to Calculate Emissions

A More Accurate Way to Calculate Emissions

Artificial intelligence has become a powerful tool in the quest toward carbon neutrality. Charlotte Degot, a BCG & BCG GAMMA managing director and partner, explains how AI makes it possible for corporations to set meaningful climate targets, track progress, and reduce pollution.

How to Reduce the Wealth Gap between Black and White Americans

White families in the United States have a median wealth nearly 10 times greater than that of Black families. BCG Managing Director & Partner Kedra Newsom Reeves explores this racial wealth inequality, and outlines how financial institutions can support Black Americans.

How Carbon Capture Networks Could Help Curb Climate Change

Can we create a global waste disposal service for carbon? BCG Managing Director & Partner Bas Sudmeijer proposes building networks to trap CO2 emissions deep in the earth, giving us a shot at stalling climate change.

What Happens after We Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine?

BCG Managing Director & Partner Johanna Benesty looks at barriers to "equitable access"—making sure COVID-19 therapeutics are available to all—and shares a creative approach to vaccine research and development.

How Conscious Investors Can Turn up the Heat and Make Companies Change

Vinay Shandal explains how conscious investing, when done right, can solve contemporary issues and help companies improve our society.

How Motivation Can Fix Public Systems

BCG's Abhishek Gopalka takes the TED@BCG stage to share his insight on sparking people's competitive spirit to fix broken-public systems.

A Netflix Model Can Make Medical Treatments More Affordable

BCG's Jean-Manuel Izaret offers a plan to combat the ever-increasing cost of medical care: a subscription-based payment model.

破綻した教育システムを、追加支出なしでどう立て直すか

Seema Bansalは、2020年までにインドのハリヤーナー州の子供の80%が学年相応の知識を身につけるという野心的な目標を掲げ、同州にある15,000校を対象とした公教育改革への道を築いています。彼女は、この目標を達成するために、追加資金を投入することなくあらゆる学校で機能する創造的でシンプルな改革を模索しています。

Finally, Tech Solutions to Economic Development

In Kenya, a smartphone app called iCow tracks the health of cattle for thousands of farmers, at times doubling productivity. In this talk, Sarah Cairns-Smith discusses how mobile apps are transforming local economies in sub-Saharan Africa.

Canada’s Plan for Achieving Its Ambitious Climate Change Agenda

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t slowing Canada’s ambitious agenda for mitigating carbon emissions. Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, explains how green jobs will play a major role in economic recovery.

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Artificial intelligence has become a powerful tool in the quest toward carbon neutrality. Charlotte Degot, a BCG & BCG GAMMA managing director and partner, explains how AI makes it possible for corporations to set meaningful climate targets, track progress, and reduce pollution.

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