In part as a move to address environmental issues, Southeast Asian companies discussed sustainability and its long-term global impact in a webinar.
On July 25, software company Meltwater organized a webinar titled “ESG 2.0: Enhancing Sustainability through Social Media,” tackling the essence of promoting sustainability in businesses.
In the said webinar, RIMM (Real Impact Matters Most) Sustainability Chief Executive Officer and Founder Ravi Chidambaram and Nickel Asia Corporation Chief Sustainability Officer Jose Bayani “JB” Baylon were present to give discussions regarding the presence of sustainability in the corporate world.
Chidambaram talked about the evolving landscape of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) efforts that companies undertake and how the ESG score would help improve companies’ sustainability and ethical practices.
During his talk, he emphasized that big and small companies should actually participate in sustainability practices, as he noticed that most businesses just implement sustainability projects but do not act on them.
Pointing this out, Chidambaram sees the need to highlight more often the need to put life into every sustainability project or movement that is implemented to really provide change.
Supporting what Chidambaram said, Baylon then spotlighted the initiative that Nickel Asia has taken for the past few years. Upon sharing, Baylon expressed that sustainability is not an easy goal for them, given that they are a mining company.
However, Baylon reminded everyone that although sustainability cannot be achieved by companies like them immediately, they should still continue to work for it since sustainability is a long journey.
Promoting sustainability in the corporate world, RIMM Sustainability creates and provides sustainability solutions to help companies with their sustainability needs, while Nickel Asia Corporation is a Philippine mining company and one of the largest producers of lateritic nickel ore in the world.
