Highlights

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are continuing to gain traction in corporate reporting regimes and the financial institution sector from the standpoints of long-term sustainability and responsible investment. Users and investors are demanding an increasingly high quality of ESG information disclosed by listed companies in order to facilitate decisions about investment, interest and value alignment, business partnerships, and joint efforts to overcome global challenges.

This is the fourth survey conducted by BDO on the performance of ESG reporting among Hong Kong listed companies. The survey explores whether their ESG reporting performance has improved since last year, identifies 7 key findings, and makes 12 recommendations for listed companies to consider when preparing their ESG reports.

In this webinar, we shall:

1. Recap the new ESG disclosure requirements
2. Share the latest BDO ESG reporting performance survey key results and recommendations;
3. Analyse listed companies’ preparedness in fulfilling the new ESG disclosure requirements;  and
4. Share some best practices and examples.

Speaker(s)

Ricky Cheng, Director and Head of Risk Advisory Services, BDO

Ricky Cheng is a director and head of risk advisory of the firm, with major responsibility in the area of risk advisory services. He specialises in assisting clients in managing their internal audit function and meeting corporate governance requirements in both China and Hong Kong.

Ricky has over 20 years of risk and assurance experience. He worked for large international accounting firms and had commercial internal audit experience. He has hands-on experience in a various services such as Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, risk management assessment, compliance assistance, corporate governance compliance review, internal audit assistance, business process review, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) readiness and reporting support services review, stored value facilities (SVF) licence independent assessment review, etc.