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What Is ESG?
2025-06-26
Knowledge ESG
What ESG means and why it matters
Understanding ESG Basics

ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. These three pillars are used to evaluate a company’s long-term sustainability and societal impact. While environmental criteria examine how a company manages natural resources and emissions, social criteria focus on its treatment of employees, customers, and communities. Governance relates to ethical business practices, leadership, and shareholder rights.

Why ESG Matters to Business

Investors, regulators, and customers increasingly value companies that align with ESG principles. ESG isn’t just about reputation—it affects access to funding, regulatory compliance, and market competitiveness. Businesses that ignore ESG may face rising costs, legal risks, and loss of stakeholder trust.

Adopting ESG in Practice

Integrating ESG into business operations begins with transparency. We help companies monitor carbon emissions, assess social responsibility, and track governance metrics through digital platforms. By turning ESG into measurable actions, businesses can report effectively and meet rising global expectations.

More Resources

CBAM certificate is the only legal voucher for EU carbon cost offset, requiring report-verification-purchase-write-off process; centralized sales start Feb 2027 (priced with EU ETS), settlement by Sep 30, full repurchase by Oct 31, unused 2-year-old certificates cancelled Nov 1 (no compensation).

CBAM

The EUDR-China-EU trade report (Fern-supported, BellaTerra-written) notes compliance core is supply chain control & traceability; classifies non-core (soybean for domestic use) and core industries (wood products exported to EU), and lists 3 compliance key points.

EUDR

Practical guide for enterprise carbon footprint quantification data, defining 6 core categories, regulating primary/secondary data use, offering 5-step collection framework & quality principles, adapting to CBAM, carbon labeling and ISO 14067, enabling efficient carbon data compliance.

Carbon Footprint

The final EU CBAM transition period reporting window is closing, the last drill before "taxation and compliance" phase; transition needs quarterly reports without payment, full phase requires carbon tariffs with reduced free allowances, dual responsibilities, mandatory verification, stricter penalties; enterprises confirm 6 products, strengthen data traceability, cooperate with EU importers.

CBAM

The core of EUDR compliance is establishing a low-cost and confidential evidence system, following the data minimization principle. It requires providing necessary data around three core issues, clarifying data boundaries and transmission norms, and avoiding compliance and confidentiality misunderstandings.

CBAM