Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing, preventable surprises

Ben Yeoh Chats

Jérôme Tagger is CEO of Preventable Surprises. Jérôme is a thinker on long term ESG trends (a catch-all phrase for extra-financial environment, social and governance) and systemic risks. He was a Director at the Global Impact Investing Network, the founding COO of the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, Head of Research at Eurosif and Chief Revenue Officer at ImpactAlpha.

Link to video and transcript: www.thendobetter.com/investing/2022/11/2/jrme-tagger-sustainability-esg-as-a-negotiation-impact-investing-podcast

We chat about the differing roles of companies, civil society and government. What Jérôme thinks about the most important levers and theories of change.

Why ESG could be thought of as a form of negotiation.

Whether we have an idea on what the neglected issues or under rated ESG challenges are.

What you should be thinking of as the chief exec of a think tank start-up. How we should think about building institutional capital. The importance of relationships and “social capital”.

Whether we should consider “less democracy, technocractics rather than democratic decision making.

What Jérôme thinks about billionaire philanthropy.

What Jérôme is hearing about views on regulation on greenwashing and, in particular, on SFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, EU).

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I haven't talked to a single person whether on the finance side, on the NGO side, civil society or otherwise that is happy with this regulation.”

Jérôme ends with advice and current projects.