‘Adapt or die’: the UN’s corporate sustainability pioneer shares lessons of 2020

Arabesque Partners chairman Georg Kell speaks to Kelsey Warner this week on the future of responsible investing, including the role of artificial intelligence to drive decisions. As the founding director of the United Nations Global Compact, Mr Kell was a pioneer in defining and assessing environmental, social and governance factors that can drive corporate strategy and investment decisions to improve the state of the world. 

Since September 2016, Mr Kell has also chaired the Volkswagen Sustainability Council, an independent body that advises VW on issues of social responsibility and the future of mobility. The group was formed following the high-profile diesel emissions scandal. He jumped at the chance to serve on the council, and explains why coming out of the shadow of controversy, VW is now at a competitive advantage five years later.

Hosted by Mustafa Alrawi

In this episode:
Mustafa and Kelsey on ESG (0m 39s)
Where are we with sustainable finance? (2m 28s)
Arabesque and sustainable intelligence (7m 00s)
How to address biased machine learning (13m 52s)
The lessons learnt by Volkswagen (15m 15s)
Who gains and loses because of the ESG criteria (20m 06s)
Headlines (22m 29s)

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