Sustainalize Podcasts

Businesses today are faced with increasing stakeholder pressure to act upon large environmental and social issues such as climate change and human rights. These stakeholders are demanding not only retrospective metrics to measure performance, but also forward-looking strategies that deliver shared value to the business as well as society. In this episode we are joined by Marlou Leenders, the Global Sustainability Manager at Randstad Global, to share with us her insights into setting and implementing an integrated sustainability strategy.

For those of us who have been working in sustainability for some time, it is exciting to see that ESG

data is now being used by a broad range of stakeholders to in the number of benchmarks and ratings

developed to systematically evaluate and compare the sustainability performance of companies.

One company that has consistently performed well in a number of these in the Coca-Cola Helenic

Bottling Company who were recognized by the DJSI in 2019 as Europe’s most sustainable beverage

company for the sixth time in seven years. They have upheld a CDP A score for Climate in the last 4

years, AAA at MSCI ESG for 5th consecutive years and highest in beverage industry score at FTSE100

ESG. In this episode we are joined Galya Tsonkova the Sustainability Manager at Coca-Cola Hellenic

to talk us through their experiences with various benchmarks and ratings.

Corporate sustainability reporting has come a long way over the past 30 years and is now considered a basic requirement of any successful organisation. However, one downside has been the increasing volume of data that companies are now required to disclose. As a result, companies are now faced with the dilemma of how to strike a balance between comprehensive disclosures and readability. One approach to overcome this challenge is core and more reporting. To explain this in more detail we are joined by Tjeerd Krumpelman, the Global head of Business Advisory, Reporting & Engagement at ABN AMRO.

Today more than ever companies are expected to measure and report on their environmental, social and governance performance. This data is increasingly being used to inform important business and investment decisions, and as such there is more scrutiny being placed on the accuracy of this data. Obtaining external assurance or validation of the data can help companies to improve their internal processes and provide confidence to their stakeholders regarding the robustness of the data and the decisions based on it. In this episode we will speak with Jose Villalon, Corporate Sustainability Director from Nutreco about the ins and outs of undergoing external validation and assurance to provide a succinct overview of the processes and outcomes from both options.