It’s time to put the S back into ESG

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Mark O’Neil argues that while environmental goals are being overshadowed by geopolitics and energy concerns, the social aspect of ESG should not be neglected, especially within the shipping industry. Geopolitical tensions and energy security anxieties pose risks that could undermine progress on social sustainability.

As environmental ambitions are quietly being pushed aside by geopolitics, energy security concerns and economic realities, shipping risks making a costly mistake if it allows the social pillar of ESG to fade into the background, argues Mark O’Neil. It is a sad truism that geopolitical tensions, the Iran conflict, energy security anxieties and sluggish national …