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Podcast: The ESG Report
Episode: ESG for Compliance Professionals: Materiality Assessments and Policies and Procedures
Description: Tom Fox evangelizes on why the compliance department is best suited to run the corporate ESG program on this week’s episode of the ESG Report. The Materiality AssessmentMany regulatory frameworks view the risk assessment as the key foundational mechanism to identify risk for the corporate compliance program. In the ESG space, you need to understand material ESG matters, which transforms your standard risk assessment into a materiality assessment. It’s important for several reasons, Tom tells listeners, including:
It’s the starting point from which you manage your non-financial risks a...