Global Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing gained steam after the epidemic as investors viewed COVID-19 as the first "sustainability" catastrophe of the century. According to a report by EY, 90% of foreign investors looked at a company's hashtag#ESG performance, and 86% prioritised corporate decarbonization when making investment decisions.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India is regulated by the Companies Act, 2013, which mandates companies to spend 2% of their average net profits of the preceding three years on CSR activities.
I am ecstatic to have this opportunity to express my opinions on this increasingly essential topic, whose key lessons even the most successful figures of classical and modern literature may find difficult to convey.
More than 15 million individuals have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 600,000 died in the six months since the coronavirus began its global spread.