Sustainability Data: How to Use Esg Data to Secure Your Organization’s Future

With sustainability now a fundamental strategic pillar for organizations, ESG metrics are vital for decision making, yet this data is complex and ever evolving.

Navigating Sustainability Data provides a focused guide for leaders and executives who want to understand how sustainability impacts a company’s future and how they can use data as a key tool to facilitate growth, access to capital and meet regulatory requirements. It explores what data is required to make decisions that directly affect the company’s valuation and helps leadership teams decide what data points they need to be preparing for their boards to support the organization’s financial, strategic and reputational future.

Showing how leaders can move from measuring data to managing future organizational risks and rewards, the book explores how to use the right data for the appropriate situation to drive efficient sustainable business decisions. It explains ESG data in plain English and highlights what data is relevant to leaders; what investors consider as essential data; and how regulation, disclosure and transparency are on a rapidly changing journey. Navigating Sustainability Data holds the information you need to avoid greenwashing, to shape your role in the sustainability landscape, and to be a leader for the future.

Sherry Madera is a strategic leader in financial services, data and technology, based in London, UK. She is Senior Vice President at Mastercard and has held global roles at the London Stock Exchange Group and Refinitiv and as Economic Ambassador, Special Advisor to the City of London and Minister-Counsellor for the UK’s Foreign Ministry based in Beijing, China. Madera is Chair of the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) which she co-founded with the World Economic Forum.