Revisiting ESG after COP28
About Event
Join us for an engaging Masterclass on "Revisiting ESG after COP28" by Ismail Ertürk, Senior Lecturer in Banking | Head of Management & Organisation Studies Group at Alliance Manchester Business School.
COP28 has produced two significant outcomes to achieve net-zero:
1) specific commitments by a group of high-income countries to the loss and damage fund that will provide financial assistance to low-income countries to mitigate global warming;
2) official recognition of fossil fuels by the COP programme as source of global warming through phasing-down objective.
The corporate world reflects such supranational agreements in their ESG activities and strategies. 2023 has not been a good year for the ESG project as the number of greenwashing cases has increased and there has been various backlashes globally. In the aftermath of the COP28 achievements the ESG project can revitalise itself. This masterclass proposes a paradigm shift that is needed for the ESG project to succeed in the longer term. It is a paradigm shift should take the form of developing authentic ESG strategies that breaks from compliance shaped ESG strategies.
Agenda
6:30 – 7:00 PM: Registration & Networking
7:00 – 7:10 PM: Introduction
7:10 – 8:10 PM: Masterclass delivered by Ismail Erturk
8:10 – 8:30 PM: Q&A session
About Professor Ismail Ertürk:
Ismail Ertürk joined the School in January 1987, having worked previously for a merchant bank in Istanbul. From 1982-1983 he was a research fellow at Hull University. He then continued his postgraduate studies at New York University where he specialized in banking. He has taught corporate finance, bank financial management and international finance on both the School’s MBA and Executive Centre programmes. In recent years his teaching reflects his research interests in financialization and financial innovation that he investigates as part of an inter-disciplinary team at CRESC at the University of Manchester. He has undertaken advisory work for companies and government institutions internationally and has developed and directed senior banking programmes for the Executive Centre. He has held visiting positions on Executive MBA Programmes at Stockholm School of Economics, St Petersburg, Istanbul Bilgi University, and ESCP-EAP, Paris.