Greening The Earth

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Coming together to solve global challenges.

ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABLE, GOVERNANCE (ESG)

GTE IMBUES ESG DERIVED FROM
U.N. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

COP26 & COP27

Cop26 in Glasgow in November 2021 and Cop27 in Egypt in 2022 sent the world a powerful message that ESG values are the beneficial base for affirmative corporate action and responsible investing. 

The ESG values of today are the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) factors of yesterday and the clarion call for companies looking to do good and for their customers and investors seeking to conduct business with socially conscious organisations.

The CSR sustainability agenda has since been replaced by ESG – which call for greater transparency and effort for the greater good. Thus ESG is a collective consciousness for corporate operations and governance, instilling social and environmental values that define a company’s reputation and its commercial and legal realities.

ESG provides organisations with a shared set of social and environmental values, shaping corporate practices and public perceptions.

But ESG standards can be challenging to measure and assess as they are qualitative, discretionary, and not codified.
They build business resilience and long-term value but demand transparency and regular reporting to a range of stakeholders about a company’s socially responsible practices and positive impact on the world.

SDGs – THE FORERUNNER FOR ESG values

The inspiration for ESG and the forerunner was the collection of 17 interlinked global goals established by the UN in 2015 to achieve a sustainable global future by 2030, known as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

SDGs are the “why”

ESG values are the “how”

Greening the Earth is the “means”

Greening the Earth projects deliver pivotal action From SDGs that link practices to the environmental, social, and governance values of ESG.

ESG has been the domain of major corporations, but GTE projects enable ESG factors to apply to all within an emitter’s network via sponsorship or engagement in projects as stakeholders and customers for carbon positive action and products.

Where surplus emissions are involved – those that are not required to achieve carbon neutral or zero emissions status for a primary emitter – can be held in escrow or transferred in rem to others as beneficiaries known as Scope 3.

FROM ASPIRATION TO INSPIRATION

THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

The value of soil organic carbon (SOC) action as a solution for global food, water and health security and its acceptance by the United Nations was highlighted in the UN-published chapter released in September 2018 at the 73rd UN Forum in New York, in a book entitled A Better World: Life on the Land. Actions.

The chapter, written by GTE personnel, Gabriel Haros; Dr John Leake and edited by Dr John White is entitled: “Are the outcomes required for the survival of mankind achievable in an era of global warming?”

It highlights the Tjilkaba/Scotdesco project, as the first and only chapter from an Australian source published to date about soil carbon and the SDGs. (see: Vol. 4 – Life on Land “Are the outcomes that are vital for the survival of mankind achievable in an era of global warming?”).

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