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Offers an interdisciplinary corporate governance perspective on the rising global adherence to ESG principles, exploring its historical roots and regulatory evolution to serve both academic and professional audiences.
This book concerns a unique approach of assessing the high increasing rates of adherence to ESG principles through the perspective of an interdisciplinary, corporate governance approach. As regulatory authorities and related authorities globally demand adherence and a genuine adoption of a standardised understanding and implementation of ESG principles, new methods of assessment are being agreed. Despite its importance, ESG has not been successfully analysed within this context. It could serve as a unique textbook to lecturers in addition to its main purpose as a general book for specialists and practitioners in the fields such as law, economics, management and governance. As large companies are in particular need to comply with ESG adoption, this book assesses the history of its roots in the City of London and its development through Lord Mervyn King and the King Laws in South Africa.
There will be great pressure on large companies to be rated as ESG compliant or they will lose their ratings status in the world economy. This book charts this course and assesses the outcomes. The importance of these outcomes cannot be underestimated, and countries such as South Africa are finding they will be stranded economically if they do not comply. In this book, the authors assess these important issues and what rating systems will be acceptable to maintain high levels of investment on the LSE, JSE by pension funds, asset management companies and banks in listed companies. They also analyse the Maritime sector in detail which is based financially in the City of London and which is not covered in related books despite it being a sector that carries controls 95% of world trade.
‘Robust research conducted by the authors of the book fits very well into the current discussion worldwide on compliance with ESG principles. What is essential is that the authors not only elaborate on the present status quo in ESG dimension but also point and examine the possible modification of the ESG concept as well as new methods of assessment’. — Professor Dr Bartłomiej Nowak, Dean, Law Faculty and Vice Rector for Infrastructure and Administration, Department of International Law and European Union Law, Kozminski University, Poland.
Professor Ruth Taplin (PhD, London School of Economics, Graduate Diploma in Law) is the author/editor of 28 books and over 200 articles in prestigious journals, and is the editor/owner of Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law (IJEBL).
Professor Neels Kilian is an professor at the Faculty of Law, North West University.
Preface; About the Authors; Tables; 1. ESG and Good Corporate Governance in Relation to the Use of Pension Funds; 2. ESG Moving Forward: ESG Integration in the City of London, UK, South Africa, EU and CEE Countries; 3. The Way Forward: Standardisation of Disclosures - An Extended Analysis of ESG Disclosures Practice in South Africa and the City of London; 4. City of London and South Africa: ESG Principles, Disclosures and Transition; 5. United Kingdom and South Africa: ESG Principles, Headwinds and New Directions; Afterword; Index.