Write a literature review on Sustainable growth – Energy consumption and water consumption

GREEN MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
ASSIGNMENT ON SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
INTRODUCTION
Considering that companies need to rethink their place place in society, CSR leads them to question
what they can offer beyond their sole economic function and promotes an ongoing dialogue with all
stakeholders. For some scholars, CSR is therefore a form of self-regulation on behalf of companies of
the company, which voluntarily integrate this approach into their business model.
As a result, firms need to ensure not only their compliance with laws and to the ethical principles
that are mandatory for them, but also need to adopt voluntary approaches to protect environment,
reduce CO2 emissions, improve working conditions and diversity, or fight against corruption. CSR
makes it possible to increase their profitability in the long term, reduce their commercial and legal
risks and strengthen the confidence of its shareholders.
Hence, CSR and sustainable growth are closely related. This transformation of governance takes on a
broad range of practices, widely considered by the financial community under three main criteria
known as ESG criteria which are: environmental criteria, social criteria, and governance criteria.
Environmental criteria relate to the direct or indirect impact of the company’s activity on the
environment. This refers in particular to the recycling of waste, the reduction of energy
consumption, the use of renewable energies, measures aimed at reducing the use of natural
resources, those aimed at reducing polluting emissions, the conservation of biodiversity,

compliance with international environmental standards or even to the ecological balance sheet.—–

ASSIGNMENT FOR MID-TERM GRADES
Students will be attributed one of the environmental criteria:
• Carbon Emissions,
• Waste Management/Circular Economy,
• Energy Consumption, Water Consumption
• Biodiversity.
Each student will write an essay of 5 to 10 pages on one of the above environmental criteria to
explain what has been achieved by firms and how their performance can be evaluated. This implies
the following:
• Write a literature review on the recent contribution of previous scholars on the subject and
how they evaluate firms’ performance. What methodology have they used?
• Provide your suggestions, based on the literature review
• You can choose any CAC 40 firm to demonstrate your arguments (all of them have
committed to sustainable development)
• List the references of the studies at the end of your document.
NOTE: Plagiarism is prohibited. Disciplinary sanctions will result from using source without acknowledgement.
UPDATE
A. General Remarks
• You should put your first name and your family name on your document
• The precise title of the essay should be written on the document
• Pages must be numbered
• There is no need to insert diagrams, pictures (generally copied from the internet)
• Documents copied and pasted will not be accepted. No plagiarism.
• Essays should be sent in WORD and PDF formats. A printed copy could be useful.
B. About the essay
• You can keep the previous version and just add the relevant literature review
• What is expected: only a short introduction, a short conclusion, a detailed literature review,
a case study if possible, and any recommendation if possible
• The literature review should be focussed only on how external rating agencies or
researchers, or other institutions have been evaluating firms’ environmental performance.
Have they developed an index to measure firm’s environmental performance?
• You need to focus only on the dimension that has been attributed to you: carbon, or waste,
or electricity & water consumption, or biodiversity)
• Before writing anything, you need to read a few documents such as:
o GIEC report
o Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
o Carbon Disclosure Report (CDB)
o Sustainable Development Report in the European Union
o ISO 14000, ISO 26000
o Etc.
• I already mentioned some of the rating agencies in class:
o MSCI ESG ratings,
o MSCI Europe
o Sustainalytics,
o Euronext Vigeo Europe
o S&P, Moody’s, Fitch
o Dow Jones Sustainability Index
o Etc.
I wish you all the best
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