Sustainability Data - by Sherry Madera

About the Book

Get a grasp on the sustainability data that leaders need to drive strategic, impactful decision making in their organizations.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Sherry Madera poses the simple questions that many directors are too nervous to ask. Navigating Sustainability Data proceeds to answer them in plain English without condescension. A remarkable achievement in a complex area."-- "Sir Douglas Flint, Chairman, Abrdn, Previous Group Chairman, HSBC"

"Navigating Sustainability Data provides real organizational boards with essential information on how sustainability will soon be the primary driver of business model transition within their firms. Sherry Madera delivers a sharp breakdown of complex climate issues such as Net Zero, carbon markets, regulations and disclosures confronting all business great and small."-- "Michael Sheren, Former Senior Advisor at the Bank of England and Co-Chairman of the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group"

"By demonstrating the potential for ESG data to improve organisational performance, Navigating Sustainability Data will help companies become more resilient in an era pregnant with a plethora of cascading and non-linear risks. Sherry Madera takes the reader systematically and critically through the key challenges and opportunities associated with ESG data and where it will go next"-- "Dr. Ben Caldecott, Professor, Oxford University, Founder Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment"

"The future of our planet is under threat, yet too often business leaders do not know how to respond. Navigating Sustainability Data explores the urgency of this dilemma and why sustainability and responsibility go hand in hand. Sherry Madera makes a compelling case for the benefits of understanding the complex sustainability data landscape and why it matters, offering practical steps through which leaders can demonstrate stewardship of our precious planet today, whilst also building relevant organisations for tomorrow."-- "Katherine Garrett-Cox, CBE, Chair of Board of Trustees, CDP"

"Navigating Sustainability Data should be priority reading for business leaders globally. ESG data is core to any business success and should not be sat at the periphery."-- "Dr. Ma Jun, President of Institute of Finance and Sustainability (Beijing) and Chairman of Green Finance Committee of China Society for Finance and Banking"

"As companies across the world drive towards business models that are in harmony with nature, the companies who can access and analyse trustworthy, accurate sustainability data will be the companies who succeed. Navigating Sustainability Data shows how this can be achieved and is essential reading for management teams and boards."-- "David Craig, Former CEO Thomson Reuters Risk and Compliance, Former CEO Refinitiv, co-chair TNFD, Executive Fellow London Business School"

"I strongly recommend Navigating Sustainability Data, an enlightening work written by an expert practitioner and entrepreneur. Data outlining sustainability should be simple, clear and actionable. This book is."-- "Paul Dickinson, Founder, CDP, Chair of the Trustees of ShareAction"

About the Author

Sherry Madera is a prominent thought leader on sustainability, with a focus on sustainable finance, environmental data and public policy. She is the CEO of CDP, a non-profit that runs the world's environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions. Prior to joining CDP, Madera was Founder and Chair of the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) and held senior global roles at Mastercard, the London Stock Exchange Group, and the City of London. She speaks regularly in global forums on topics including sustainable finance, FinTech, international trade, data policy and geopolitics.