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Ethicast Reacts: Understanding the SEC’s Climate Risk Rules

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Ethicast Reacts: Understanding the SEC’s Climate Risk Rules

After two years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally approved the Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors, its long-anticipated rules require certain SEC registrants to report their carbon emissions and climate risks.

Even as the rules face legal challenge, Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne offers her insights on how these rules will impact organizations and how they can prepare now to comply with them.

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BELA Asks: How Do I Measure and Assess Third-Party Risk?

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BELA Asks: How Do I Measure and Assess Third-Party Risk?

As longtime members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) know, we offer a special concierge service whereby BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.

Some of these concierge requests are rather specific to a particular company’s needs, but many of them represent broad challenges facing BELA members. That’s why we are using this show to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community.

In this episode, BELA Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne, answers: How do I measure and assess third-party risk?

To learn more, or to ask a question of your own, visit bela.ethisphere.com

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Ethicast: How a Culture of Integrity Can Unite a Global Enterprise

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Ethicast: How a Culture of Integrity Can Unite a Global Enterprise

In this Ethicast episode, we talk to AtkinsRéalis’ Chief ESG & Integrity Officer, Hentie Dirker, about how they embed integrity across their organization, including the organization’s strategic plan for ESG and compliance, how ESG informs and advances company culture, the significance of having a Chief ESG & Integrity Officer, and how they forge a single, global culture of ethics.

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2024 Ethics Premium

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2024 Ethics Premium

Ethisphere compares the five-year financial performance of the publicly listed World’s Most Ethical Companies honorees against a comparable index of large cap companies. This comparison reveals a connect between good ethical practices and financial performance, and is called the Ethics Premium.

World’s Most Ethical Companies honorees continuously outperform peers and competitors, demonstrating a link between ethical behavior and financial performance. This outperformance is the result of the kinds of practices that lead a company to be recognized—investments in their people, culture and communities.

This year, the Ethics Premium is 12.3% from January 2019 to January 2024, demonstrating a tangible ROI for doing the right thing.

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Spotlight on Unum: Elevating Ethics Across an Organization

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Spotlight on Unum: Elevating Ethics Across an Organization

In this Spotlight, we explore how Unum Group’s Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer, Beth Simon, created an ethics and compliance program that has been honored as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies and earned Ethisphere’s Compliance Leader Verification for its outstanding program and practices.

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