At the 12th BEMSSSaudi Arabia delivered a speech with topic: “ESG 2026: Trends, Transformation, and Value Creation”. The participants were all excited to learn new insights from Dr. Saddam Hazaea, , are welcomed to share their insight or ask question in this forum:
- Safwaan Z. Allison
One questions: With respect to the erosion or destruction of the existing global legal framework/ rules based order, how can companies have confidence in the existing infrastructure? Both in relation to tariffs, protectionism, state intervention, and dispute resolution? - Moh. Andika Lawasi
In ESG frameworks, deforestation is usually categorized under the environmental pillar. However, in many forest-rich countries, deforestation is also deeply linked to governance issues such as licensing, weak law enforcement, land tenure conflicts, corruption, and supply-chain transparency. How can ESG assessment avoid treating deforestation merely as an environmental indicator, and instead integrate governance and social dimensions to prevent greenwashing? - Anna
How does ESG framework treat employees' welfare and diversity? - Ralph Navelino
In what ways should ESG move beyond compliance and become action-oriented? - Santi Rahmawati
Thank you Dr Saddam, for highlighting an important issue closely related to the conference theme. Are Micro and Small Enterprises required to implement ESG in their business processes? They usually still faced issues with limited resources and sustaining their business. Or is the ESG best practice only promising for big companies/industries? As you already mentioned during the presentation, ESG activities can attract investors, employees, and customers. - MARK MOSUELA AQUINO
What is the international standard parameters to determine if the ESG is successful? How effective and efficient is it based on the achievements of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? - MARK MOSUELA AQUINO (PHILIPPINES) - Md. Saiful Islam
As a underdeveloped country like Bangladesh, there is no ESG disclosure score of all companies in refinative or any other database so which disclosure items need to consider for conducting disclosure score as well as is it possible to compare with your showing score standard benchmark? - Dr. Mohammad Sahabuddin
Congratulation Dr. Saddam for your insightful presentation. ESG plays vital role for sustainable development. Currently I am working on ESG, Islamic Finance and AI for fostering Sustainable Development. My stand is as a developing country, like Bangladesh can be introduced ESG index in the stock exchange, which will contribute to the economic development. Do you think that and how? I am expecting your thoughtful opinions. Thank you. - Rica Mae Palmaera
Good day. My name is Rica; I am from Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand. Thank you for your excellent insights, Dr. Saddam Hazaea, on stakeholder pressure across the supply chain. My question is that since different regions/countries have vastly different manufacturing standards and regulations, how can global firms accurately measure and standardize the ESG performance of their international suppliers?
All audience are also welcome to ask question in this forum. Thank you.
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