March 2024
Minutes of the APPG on ESG’s Annual General Meeting, Wednesday, 6 March 2024, 10.30 AM.
The APPG has transferred its activities to the Policy Liaison Group on ESG and is no longer active. You can find all the group’s roundtable summaries, minutes and reports until the 31st of March 2024 on this site.
Updates
AGM 2024
- Minutes
Biodiversity
- Summary documents
February 2024
With Vassilis Gkoumas, Economist at WWF-UK; Helen Avery, Nature Programmes Director at the Green Finance Institute; and Emily McKenzie, Technical Director at Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
UK Green Taxonomy
- Summary documents
January 2024
The group revisited the topic of the UK Green Taxonomy, a longstanding priority for the APPG dating back to its Green Taxonomy report published in 2022.
ESG’s role in the transition to net zero
- Summary documents
November 2023
A week in advance of the Autumn Budget Statement the APPG assembled a series of recommendations to put to the Chancellor on how to take a “smart” approach to delivering more green projects.
Download the Chairman’s Autumn Statement letter to the Chancellor
Modern Slavery
- Summary documents
November 2023
The APPG returned to the topic of modern slavery. This roundtable found strong consensus in favour of the Modern Slavery Act including investment portfolios, and called for a “proactive” regulatory environment, nurturing a cultural shift across international supply chains.
Transparency, coordination and ambition: Delivering gender equality through ESG
- Reports
October 2023
The APPG’s inaugural report on the ‘S’ pillar of ESG addresses gender equality in both entrepreneurship and the corporate world, drawing attention to the importance of raising awareness, encouraging disclosures of disaggregated data, and ensuring the materiality of gender equality and broader diversity meet with appropriate corporate governance provisions. Other key themes include: ESG frameworks for tracking progress and meeting investor expectations, internal talent pipelines to ensure more women rise up the corporate ladder and into the boardroom, and fairer treatment for female entrepreneurs with the aid of ESG practices and principles.