To facilitate the growth of socially responsible investing (SRI), financial advisors play a critical role in educating their clients about the risk and opportunities relating to the different areas of sustainability. What are some of the barriers that are hindering them from doing so?
- The understandable technical rationale;
- Simple but specificaly quantified data on finacial return;
- A seamless integration among finacial, technical and social benifit; and
- Live and sucessful stories.
Hi Renard,
I think the following may be some of the barriers you are referring to:
The above is not MECE (mutually exclusive or collectively exhaustive), but in my humble opinion, are some pressing issues which if addressed with genuine intent, can truly revolutionize how we look at organizations and sustainability globally.
- Only company internal environmental accounting systems
- Lack of standardised accounting systems (often others than e.g. GRI 4 are used)
- Country specific adaptation of reporting
- Thus in conclusion: non-comparability of indicators and measures.
- Thus no benefit in disclosing information, since it might be interpreted wrong, or data turns out to be of no "content" / carries no information
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