Peer Learning: ESG
31 January 2025
Photo by Owen de Visser
By Philip Singleton, Consultant at Colmore BID
As Colmore BID continues to plan and evolve how we provide information to our levy payers, we keep up with peers and absorb what experts have to say. So, I attended the Sustainability West Midlands annual meeting and members’ mingle day at Coventry University.
We heard from Jon Gray as the keynote speaker from the Department for Business & Trade and a wealth of experience on the wider panel chaired by Dr Carl Perrin from Coventry University, with Heather Black from Business in the Community, Margot James from Coventry Independent Climate Change Board, Ravinder Masih from Severn Trent Water, and Emily Robertson from Highly Sprung Performance, and so we had good insight into the future of sustainability in the region.
To quote from the Sustainability West Midlands event review “we considered a series of questions which start to analyse the journey which the public, private and third party sectors are taking to green their organisations with SWM. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) SME and Entrepreneurship Papers, No. 60 uses the word ‘Greening’ to “identify [organisations] based on self-declared information about products or processes on their websites”. This is relevant to us as an increasing number of companies and authorities are self-declaring their sustainable initiatives as they recognise the economic and reputational benefits of doing so. This is quite apart from whether it is mandated or not by the Government”.
Colmore BID is a member of Sustainability West Midlands and during 2025 we will continue to signpost the valuable information and events listed out on the website via our Cleaner Colmore pages.