A Disruptive New Model for Corporate Sustainability and ESG | Georgia Elliott-Smith | TEDxUCL
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Georgia challenges the status quo of corporate philosophy, urging businesses to understand profit in the wider context of sustainability. An environmental engineer and Chartered Environmentalist, Georgia started her career as one of UK construction’s first Environment Managers. Following an Antarctic expedition, she became UN Special Junior Envoy for Youth & the Environment, speaking to young people around the world on environmental issues.
As the current Managing Director of sustainability consultancy Element Four, Georgia works with organisations such as the Bank of England, Nike and Deloitte to deliver more sustainable projects and business practices. A critic of traditional approaches, Georgia promotes “disruptive sustainability” – a combination of best practice and activism that generates purpose and drives actions necessary to achieve meaningful change in industry. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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Actually mam, with all due respect, the time before you were born saw a half dozen predictions of climate doomsday, and not a single one even remotely came to pass. This isn't the first "climate catastrophe prediction,' I am surprised you haven't studied more history of your own profession.
"Everything your business does must fit into the ESG structure… you must speak climate-friendly words, wear the correct clothing, hire climate-neutral people… we must not stop until our world makes "1984" look like the model for a free society. This is very scary, do these people ever take a moment to think about WTF they are doing and saying? Have at it Europe, the US congress will outlaw this tyrannical, oppressive, biassed bullcrap soon.
Excellent lecture. Our climate emergency has now passed a tipping point as evident over the last year and the nay sayers have got no ground to argue. Large corporations need to be held accountable for their actions. They need to stop greenwashing and making token gestures that do nothing to balance their monumental environmental destruction. Consumers need to stop buying their products and governments need to fine them for damaging our planet.
ESG is an obvious scam.
No such thing as climate change!!
Excellent
I have one question , what does this have to do with children being played with by adults ? Somehow a company has a better ESG score if they do open drag show.
the GRI standards brought me here
America is collapsing. It won't be long now!
What an inspiring speech! Thank you!
But still you did not give a solution 😂
So what are we suggesting here? Government coercion through carbon & sustainability based taxes?
pinpointing the exact truth of what business needs to do for climate change.
Love her
One of the best TED talks!!
Why not Georgia, why not! Saying no to everything is not always “the right thing” ..
If big companies spend their money on clean energy, steering (slowly) to better solutions, gee, please let them!
One of the best speeches I have ever heard on sustainability
Right on with your criticality on ESG but why not use the same criticality to SDGs? There is enough criticism on SDGs and plenty of examples of SDG-washing. The countries that contribute most to climate change often also lead the SDG ranking. If you advocate system change, please realize ESG and SDGs come from the system that causes climate change. I like in a small country that’s speaks 121 languages, and the world enforces the 18 goals for so called development? Can it be more participatory and contextual? Less colonial perhaps?
Giving this speech inside air conditioned room and driving petrol car to commute 😂