Essere Group implements organizational risk management system

Essere Group announced this week the implementation of a new organizational risk management system and the definition of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to the ESG management expert, Roberto Roche (in the photo), the group is open to understanding that ESG is the analysis of investment risks, and that it is preparing group members for all the socio-environmental impacts that the company's activity may cause. 

“We are implementing an organizational management system where all risks that are material to the business are being monitored, both to enhance the brand and to address risks that may affect the business in the future”, he states. According to the expert, the material risks have already been listed, and now the group is focused on writing policies and treatments to identify potential socio-environmental risks. 

Defining Sustainable Development Goals

Among the SDGs listed by the Essere Group are: objective no. 3, which aims to ensure a healthy life for everyone, at all ages; objective no. 8, which aims to promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all; objective no. 9, which deals with building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation; objective no. 12, which seeks to ensure sustainable production and consumption standards; and objective no. 13, which aims to adopt urgent measures to combat climate change and its impacts. Roche emphasizes that SDG is what the company embraces according to the materiality of the business. “SDGs are not sustainability,” he says.

Luciano de Gissi, operations director, states that the Essere Group will provide training on these actions at all levels of the company, including with customers and suppliers. “Today, both the financial sector and cooperatives require the company to have ESG in its DNA and now we will enter the SDG training part at all levels of the company”, he highlights.

Also according to Roche, suppliers who are unable to meet the defined requirements will be disqualified from supplying the group. “Among millions of companies in Brazil, the Essere Group has already gone 80% to 90% of the way towards implementing ESG principles. Everything is going very well in the company”, he concludes.