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elo18ahsgov-blog · 6 years

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The 3P Assessment: Parties, Political Interest Groups, and PACs

The Green Party focuses more on the environmental impacts of poverty and how they strive for the creation of equal societies where everyone has chances to rise into the safety net. The Libertarian Party sees poverty as government’s wrongdoing, how the government “sucks the oxygen out of families... and the very poor that it purports to help”. There really is not anything directly about poverty from the Libertarian Party that I could see. The Democratic and The Republican Party have similar views when it comes to poverty. Both parties want to help Americans by creating jobs, the first step in helping those in poverty to be lifted out of it. The Peace and Freedom party acknowledge that many minority families are victimized by cutbacks in health care, welfare, and jobs and demand non-discrimination in hiring and promotion. They believe that poverty breeds crime and repression and that the working class has fallen victim to it.

I agree with all them on most points. The environment has been affected much by poverty, as those in poverty have to choose between living or helping the environment. Poverty has greatly affected many Americans and with the creation of jobs and applying programs to help those in poverty, there would be fewer Americans in poverty

I identify with the Democratic Party as I have similar views on the topic. There were about 15.5 million jobs created under Obama which helped many Americans.

The national interest group I chose was the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.

They ensure that people in poverty or of low income are able to access basic needs such as healthcare, housing, and opportunities by helping to pass laws and policies.

This group advocates for racial equality and has a racial justice training institute where “It is more important than ever for equal justice advocates to understand and address issues of race, implicit bias, and how to affirmatively advance racial equity”. They have been around for 50 years and have listed many of their achievements such as helping households keep food on their tables and ensuring children are obtaining affordable health care. Many of the people on the governing board work for companies like Google and Haynes and Boone, LLP, which means that they have supporters from big companies to help expose the public to this group.

They are in support of the Protect Our Care Bill which would require the Illinois General Assembly to approve any waivers proposed by the Governor’s office that would affect coverage under the ACA or Medicaid, ensuring any attempts to restrict access to healthcare are open to public debate and scrutiny.

Their office is based in Illinois and there is an event that looks to be online. I would probably be able to watch it if it is online.

The volunteer opportunities are broad and there aren’t direct volunteer opportunities that directly benefit the group.

It was interesting how they offer courses such as community lawyering, leadership for justice, and much more. They have been around for 50 years and have done much to help the nation.

The California interest group is the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Poverty Working Group.

This group aims to explore key strategies and policies to reduce poverty in our communities.

There is not much on the website as it is a sub-page to the CSAC main website. It has information for people to read on like being able to make jobs so that all Americans can live financially stable. They also have their agenda on the website but it’s from late 2016. Most of the information is somewhat outdated so I can’t really pick out 5 things that seem to pop out. I couldn't find anything that the CSAC endorsed.

The group is stated in Sacramento, CA and there aren’t any meetings I could attend. There are not any volunteer opportunities as well.

The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is more organized and for sure up to date. It’s easy to find everything and you’re able to easily recognize what they stand for.

I couldn’t find any PACs on poverty and the one I found had $25 and no other information.

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justinstanley · 4 years

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For Sustainable Business Reflection #4 Sustainability and Economic Growth

What is sustainability? How can we make sustainable development a reality? How sustainability can be measured?

This is a very interesting and important question. Sustainability seems such a self-understandable word, yet it is usually used only to conceal one's true intentions. For example, sustainable use of paper. Is it better to collect old paper polluting the air with trucks and then use strong chemicals and consume energy to purify and make a new (low quality!) paper and then do all this over again until the whole Earth is polluted, OR to plant trees for paper, burn old paper (and get the energy from it) and let those trees to breathe in the CO2 generated by burning the old paper in exactly the same amount required to replace old paper with new? Even a fool can see that the strategy that is counter to usually promoted "sustainable" one is in fact more sustainable. But industry has more interest in scenario with more trucks, more gas and chemical consumption and more useless job openings to spend public money and employ politicians' families, godfathers and friends. So I think "sustainability" is a just a buzzword that decision-makers use to excuse just any politics they want to put forward (good or bad). The word itself is often used just as a decoration, without any true meaning. In this situation it makes little sense to define the word properly....

Sustainability and sustainable development are the catch phrases and center-stage of all discussion in the arena of economic, environmental, social, educational activities and what not! Sustainability is the nature or property of something being sustained or that runs in perpetuity remaining same (may be dynamic stability!). On the other hand sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the presents without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their needs. SD satisfies the triple bottom lines (TBL) of environmental protection, economic development and social security. SD is always for people, planet and prosperity (3P), in other words, it's for environment (protection), economy (prosperity) and (social) equity (3E).

Also I really glad to see you chose UNSDGs as one of your decision matrixes in your evaluation of ACAs, however, still it seems that UNSDGs would face some tangible and intangible problem in the implementation phase itself.

There are not any mandatory rules packages to solve the possible illegal policy resistance.

There is governance weakness regarding satisfying miscellaneous stakeholders with conflicts of interests.

They need to be integrated with the Systemic approach, Otherwise, Each goal, proposed sub-optimal solutions would not necessarily lead to an optimal solution for the whole system. Even a useful action for achieving one goal may hurt the other goals. So, A trade-off between all subsystems is needed.

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3rdeyeinsights · 1 year

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crimsonpublishers · 4 years

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Dimensions and Indicators for Sustainable Construction Materials: A Review_Crimson Publishers

Dimensions and Indicators for Sustainable Construction Materials: A Review by Humphrey Danso* in Crimson Publishers: Peer Reviewed Material Science Journals

Sustainable construction practices are provided to reduce resource depletion and prevent environmental degradation caused by construction activities and products. The purpose of this paper is to review the general and relevant available indicators for measuring sustainable construction materials. The paper outlines the main idea behind sustainability assessment. It also reviews the critical sustainability indicators which are grouped under the 3Es, thus environmental, social equity and economic dimensions. Furthermore, it highlights the analytical hierarchical process in sustainable construction materials assessment. The paper concludes that it is important to identify the relevant sustainable indicators for construction materials and be able to measure the indicators following the analytical hierarchical process.

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testbankprovidersell · 9 months

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Test Bank for Financial & Managerial Accounting for Decision Makers, 3e by Dyckman

contents About the Authors (pg. iii) Preface (pg. v) Brief Contents (pg. xiii) Contents (pg. xiv) Chapter 1: Introducing Financial Accounting (pg. 2) Chapter 2: Constructing Financial Statements (pg. 42) Chapter 3: Adjusting Accounts for Financial Statements (pg. 100) Chapter 4: Reporting and Analyzing Cash Flows (pg. 156) Chapter 5: Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Statements (pg. 218) Chapter 6: Reporting and Analyzing Revenues, Receivables, and Operating Income (pg. 270) Chapter 7: Reporting and Analyzing Inventory (pg. 326) Chapter 8: Reporting and Analyzing Long-Term Operating Assets (pg. 372) Chapter 9: Reporting and Analyzing Liabilities (pg. 412) Chapter 10: Reporting and Analyzing Leases, Pensions, and Income Taxes (pg. 460) Chapter 11: Reporting and Analyzing Stockholders’ Equity (pg. 516) Chapter 12: Reporting and Analyzing Financial Investments (pg. 562) Chapter 13: Managerial Accounting: Tools for Decision Making (pg. 618) Chapter 14: Cost Behavior, Activity Analysis, and Cost Estimation (pg. 648) Chapter 15: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Planning (pg. 684) Chapter 16: Relevant Costsand Benefits for Decision Making (pg. 726) Chapter 17: Product Costing: Job and Process Operations (pg. 768) Chapter 18: Activity-Based Costing, Customer Profitability, and Activity-Based Management (pg. 822) Chapter 19: Additional Topics in Product Costing (pg. 862) Chapter 20: Pricing and Other Product Management Decisions (pg. 894) Chapter 21: Operational Budgeting and Profit Planning (pg. 926) Chapter 22: Standard Costs and Performance Reports (pg. 972) Chapter 23: Segment Reporting,Transfer Pricing, and Balanced Scorecard (pg. 1014) Chapter 24: Capital Budgeting Decisions (pg. 1058) Appendix A: Compound Interest and theTime‑Value of Money (pg. 1108) Glossary (pg. 1131) Index (pg. 1141) Read the full article

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fulltestbank · 2 years

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Solution Manuals For Intermediate Accounting, 3e by Hanlon

About Our Team (pg. iii) Preface (pg. v) Brief Contents (pg. xviii) Contents (pg. xix) Chapter 1: Accounting Environment and the Conceptual Framework (pg. 1-1) Chapter 2: Accounting Information System (pg. 2-1) Chapter 3: Income Statement and Comprehensive Income (pg. 3-1) Chapter 4: Balance Sheet and Financial Reporting (pg. 4-1) Chapter 5: Statement of Cash Flows and Financial Analysis (pg. 5-1) Chapter 6: Time Value of Money (pg. 6-1) Chapter 7: Revenue Recognition (pg. 7-1) Chapter 8: Cash and Receivables (pg. 8-1) Chapter 9: Inventory: Measurement (pg. 9-1) Chapter 10: Inventory: Additional Issues (pg. 10-1) Chapter 11: Property, Plant, and Equipment: Acquisition and Disposition (pg. 11-1) Chapter 12: Depreciation, Impairments, and Depletion (pg. 12-1) Chapter 13: Intangible Assets and Goodwill (pg. 13-1) Chapter 14: Investments in Debt and Equity Securities (pg. 14-1) Chapter 15: Current Liabilities and Contingencies (pg. 15-1) Chapter 16: Long-Term Liabilities (pg. 16-1) Chapter 17: Accounting for Leases (pg. 17-1) Chapter 18: Income Taxes (pg. 18-1) Chapter 19: Pensions and Postretirement Benefits (pg. 19-1) Chapter 20: Stockholders’ Equity (pg. 20-1) Chapter 21: Share-Based Compensation and Earnings per Share (pg. 21-1) Chapter 22: Statement of Cash Flows Revisited (pg. 22-1) Appendix A: Accounting Changes and Error Analysis Revisited (pg. A-1) Appendix B: IFRS (pg. B-1) Appendix C: Data Analytics and Blockchain Technology (pg. C-1) Index (pg. I-1) Read the full article

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nancydhooper · 6 years

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Smith College Overhauls Policing Practices After Black Student Racially Profiled

After a Smith College employee called the cops on a Black student as she ate lunch, Smith will take up the ACLU’s recommendations for police reforms.

This past July, Oumou Kanoute was a rising sophomore at Smith College, working on campus over the summer to mentor high school students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, careers. A young Black immigrant and the daughter of a single mother, Oumou is exactly the kind of striver colleges like Smith seek to attract.

But Oumou felt anything but welcome on that late July afternoon. As she ate in a common room, wearing the unofficial Smithie uniform of athleisure clothing topped with a pink-and-white Vineyard Vines cap, a college employee decided she looked “out of place” and called the campus police on her.

The experience made Oumou become one of a troubling number of Black and brown people who have had the cops called on them simply for living their everyday lives. It also profoundly shook Oumou, and she now feels distinctly out of place in this predominantly white institution.

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Today Smith College announced that it’s overhauling two key sets of policies involving calls to campus police. Both changes largely mirror the ACLU’s recommendations, and had they been in place last year, it is likely that Oumou would never have suffered the shame and trauma of an unnecessary police encounter.

The first change is the college’s guidance to employees on when to call the police. Instead of immediately calling the cops when they believe someone is “out of place” or otherwise doing something that isn’t a safety threat, employees are now advised to take the common-sense step of trying to resolve the situation by talking with the person first.

The second change modifies campus police responses to “suspicious person” calls. As Smith’s own statistics indicated, the vast majority of these calls target people who are not doing anything wrong, and a disproportionate number of these calls target Black people.

The new policy instructs dispatchers to collect more information from callers to determine an appropriate response — including whether a response is warranted at all. It requires law enforcement action to be based on articulable facts, circumstances, and conclusions that support the relevant legal standards for police action — not merely the hunches or private biases of whoever chose to call the police. It reminds officers that “the vast majority of our suspicious person calls turn out to be community members or guests of our community engaging in appropriate activity.” And it directs officers not to rush in with an aggressive response, but rather to collect information, exercise judgment, and interact in a respectful, non-accusatory manner with the person identified in the call.

These policy changes are a crucial step forward. But as Smith has acknowledged, even with these new policies in place, the college still has work to do on inclusion and campus climate. We encourage the college to work with student activists of color to make progress in these areas and listen closely to the demands made by Oumou and other students of color. These include embracing student demands for voluntary affinity housing, institutionalizing campus-wide discussions of race and equity like those now planned for the spring 2019 semester, and reexamining the people — including figures revered in Smith’s history — who enforced 20th-century racial segregation at the college.

In the meantime, however, other colleges and universities should take note. After all, Smith is hardly the only college facing this issue. Many of the recent examples of “Living While Black” police calls involve predominantly white college campuses that have allowed their campus police forces to be weaponized against their own students and employees of color.

To take just the most recent examples: Two Native American teenagers were targeted for being on a campus tour at Colorado State University. A Black grad student was targeted for taking a nap in her dorm’s common room at Yale. A Black college employee was targeted for walking to work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A Black library sciences student was targeted for trying to use the library at Catholic University of America. A Black undergraduate at the University of Texas San Antonio was targeted by her own professor for putting her feet up on a chair during class.

When colleges and universities refuse to adopt policies that protect their own Black and brown students from weaponized bias, they are making it crystal clear which students won’t be able to live as full members of the college community and which students will constantly have their place in this community questioned or threatened by campus authorities.

Following Smith’s step forward, we encourage other institutions to proactively change their policies. Promoting diversity isn’t enough. Schools have a responsibility to enact reforms that protect the students they recruit from the trauma of racial profiling, before a crisis unfolds on campus.

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jeramymobley · 7 years

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A Framework For Building Admired Brands

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kennethmjoyner · 4 years

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Post-ILTA>ON Round-up: Tons of Legal Tech News – Acquisitions, Launches, Updates and More

Last week may have been the first-ever virtual annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, but just like past years’ face-to-face ILTACONs, this year’s ILTA>ON was the occasion for a flood of major news announcements from legal technology companies.

And given my own perfect storm last week of spending three hours a day hosting live coverage of the conference for Litera.TV, plus preparing for my hosting duties, attending conference sessions, and dealing with my day job, I was barely able to come up for air, let alone keep up with the surge.

So allow me this belated opportunity to catch up on some of ILTA>ON week’s more notable developments.

AbacusNext Announces Updates to AbacusLaw

Legal technology company AbacusNext announced the release of new features and enhancements for its online law practice management platform AbacusLaw. The enhancements include:

Updated look. The toolbar, background imagery, dashboard interface, name and matter screens and case previews have all been updated with a cleaner design for quick access to vital information.

New apps available on the dashboard. The Accounting Overview App provides insight into the AR and AP process including not yet billed and past due invoices; the Hours Comparison App shows available, worked, invoiced and collected hours for timekeepers over selected periods.

Customizable dashboard. Users may now control the color and text of app titles to their liking.

Remote API provisioning. This functionality provides easier API access to third parties and streamlines future integrations.

BigHand Acquired by Private Equity Firm

BigHand, a company that specializes in workflow, productivity and profitability software for the legal industry, has been acquired by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a global private equity firm.

BigHand says that it has over 3,500 clients and 600,000 users worldwide. Founded as a dictation technology company in 1995, it expanded over the years into a multi-product company and has completed six acquisitions in recent years.

I wrote in April about the law firm Baker Donelson’s accelerated roll-out of the company’s task-delegation platform, BigHand Now, in the wake of the firm’s decision to require its attorneys and staff to work from home.

Previously owned by Bridgepoint Development Capital, BigHand says its new ownership will allow it to further accelerate its growth with the aim of becoming a full workflow business and establishing a wider customer base throughout North America.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

FileTrail’s New Version Addresses Challenges of Remote Working

FileTrail, the company that provides information governance and records management software for law firms and highly regulated industries, released a new version of its software, FileTrail GPS 5.0. The updates to FileTrail GPS (Governance Policy Suite) are designed to address the IG challenges of remote working, disposition related to critical needs around cost-cutting and eliminating paper and policy management tied to increasingly stringent client and regulatory compliance requirements.

FileTrail GPS 5.0 integrates directly within the user interface of a firm’s electronic document management system, with different configurations to fit the color, design and appearance of popular platforms including NetDocuments, iManage and others.

The company said that it allows attorneys and their staff gain access to the inventory of documents in SharePoint, file shares and other sources without leaving the DMS. They also can directly access centralized disposition review workflows and have visibility into policies, guidelines, timekeepers and other information traditionally difficult to centralize and present.

iManage Acquires Closing Folders

The week kicked off with major news from document management company iManage — its acquisition of the transaction management platform Closing Folders.

Closing Folders is technology that automates many of the steps associated with managing and executing commercial transactions. The company says that more than 4,000 transactions a month are negotiated, signed and closed on its platform, ranging from small commercial lending deals to multi-billion-dollar acquisitions of global companies.

iManage says that the combination of the companies offers a number of business and technology advantages, including a “single source of truth” for transaction documents that reduces risk, integration with iManage RAVN’s artificial intelligence technology to enable analysis of transaction data and trends, and a global training and support network.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Intapp Launches Service to Connect All A Firm’s Applications

Intapp, a company that provides software and services for professional services firms, launched Intapp Integration Service, technology that enables interoperability between all of a professional services firm’s software and applications on a single platform.

Available as either a pure cloud or hybrid deployment, the service lowers the cost of software implementation, speeds time to value, and centralizes firm data management to simplify the IT department’s job, Intapp says.

The service is supported by the first-ever Intapp Open API and a set of prebuilt integration processes. Initially, it will enable integrations for four major technology suites — Vuture, Thomson Reuters Elite 3E, iManage, and Dun & Bradstreet. Intapp said it will announce several additional integration partners in the coming months.

Kira’s New Feature Answers Your Questions

The machine-learning company Kira Systems said it will release a new feature in September, Answers & Insights, that will go beyond simply identifying and extracting contract clauses and actually interpret data to provide answers to pressing questions.

The feature will come with a collection of built-in questions commonly asked across legal and business documents. Users will also be able to build their own questions using Kira’s no-code machine learning platform Kira Quick Study.

Kira said that the tool will be able to answer questions such as, “Does the lease name a guarantor of tenant’s obligations?”, “Is LIBOR or Eurocurrency referenced in the agreement?”, or “Does the agreement renew automatically?”

“Answers & Insights represents the next level of our no-code AI technology,” Alexander Hudek, Kira Systems CTO and cofounder, said in announcing the feature. “It allows you to go beyond simply identifying relevant text by additionally assigning fine grained meaning to extractions.”

NetDocuments Unveils New Theme, New Products

The cloud-based document management company NetDocuments introduced new products along with a new vision of how it organizes and thinks about its products.

With the message of enabling its customers to “Work Inspired,” the company introduced two new products: Tasks, a collaborative task management system, and SmartView, a document preview and collaboration engine.

It also introduced a new five-pronged schema for how its various products support its theme of working inspired:

Organize is made up of the core NetDocuments capabilities, including document and email management and OCR technologies.

Protect provides controls and policy tools to reduce data breaches, as well as a geo-aware storage capability that supports compliance while accelerating content delivery around the world.

Plan is designed to bring teams together with one version of work focused on tools for coordinating teams and tasks, providing real-time team communication with ndThread and Microsoft Teams integration, and facilitating task management across matters and projects.

Deliver helps safely organize, package, and share content with clients, customers, outside counsel, and other third parties using built-in extranet and document bundling tools.

Learn provides insights about user activity and documents, and includes enterprise search-driven knowledge management insights.

Tasks gives users a visual snapshot of their workload and project status.

With regard to the two new products announced last week:

Tasks is a task management system designed to provide a holistic view into everything that is important in a project. It provides collaboration inside a workspace for various parties who have interconnected deliverables to help users track project stages, owners, deadlines, and deliverables.

SmartView is designed to simplify document reviews by making it easy to quickly preview, annotate, and mark up documents without ever needing to download the files to the desktop. Users can make Margin Notes to annotate files with colleagues and clients in real-time — and take advantage of findings to easily navigate through people, places, companies, and more.

SimplyAgree Readies New Version of its Signing and Closing Tool

The deal management platform SimplyAgree said that it is rolling out the latest version of its signature and closing management technology for transactional attorneys.

SimplyAgree is a closing management tool that helps deal teams streamline signings and automate the creation of closing sets and other post-closing work. It also provides tools to support professionals in closing deals remotely — including integrated mobile and electronic signing.

The company said that the new version enhances the platform’s performance and flexibility to meet more users’ needs and adds a more modern interface. Other new features include:

Enhanced document visualization and compilation, simulating desktop PDF tools.

Expanded signature packet functionality, including test emails, notifications, group messaging and signature links.

Support for multiple templates and types of binders for different practice groups and users.

Electronic closing binder delivery to securely share closing binders without emailing large files.

TitanFile Unveils New Features and Integrations

TitanFile, a secure file sharing and client collaboration platform focused on the legal industry, announced a number of product improvements. They include:

DocuSign integration: new integration improves work product workflow especially in times of remote office environments due to COVID-19.

Document management system compatible: now compatible with most popular legal document management systems.

Metadata scrubbing feature: upgrade to its “Secure Send” feature where it scrubs and sends and files emails to document management systems.

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csrgood · 4 years

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The Virus Crisis Affects Business in Many Way - What Will the Risks and Opportunities Result in Post-Emergency? BNP Paribas Offers Views…

The Virus Crisis Affects Business in Many Way -What Will Risks/Opportunities Result in Post-Emergency? BNP Paribas Offers Views

What might our world look like when the COVID-19 global emergency winds down and we move into the “recovery and restoration” phase? What is in store for business in the transition? And beyond? Looking at risk and opportunity through an ESG lens.

BNP Paribas Asset Management has offered up some important perspectives. ESG analyst Anupama Rames asks and answers: (1) Will the world go back to status quo when we exit the dis-location? (2) Probably not. “We believe,” she writes, “that the learnings from the go-remote experiment are here to stay.”

Last year BNP Paribas offered up the “3-E’s” – their methodology for addressing what the large asset management firm sees as the three key sustainability challenges of our time: (1) Energy transition; (2) Environmental sustainability; (3) Equality and inclusive growth. Now, analyst Rames is determining the risk, changes, risk mitigation strategies and opportunities in each of the categories.

The examples she cites:

Energy Transition There’s now a 20% drop in global oil consumption and negative regional oil pricing; the energy sector is under-performing equity and high-yield indices. Such factors as lower plastic uses (petro is a key component), electrification of transport and climate mitigation policies add up to dampened oil demand.

Changes in work patterns (more remote working, distancing), personal and business travel mean less oil demand today. Key concern going forward: stranded oil & gas assets over the long-term. Possible winners in the opportunity zone: renewables, conservation, energy storage (capturing the energy from the windmill).

And, BNP Paribas ESG integration methodology aims to differentiate winner and losers in the transition, post-emergency.

Environmental Sustainability Analyst Rames brings up a topic not really being discussed (yet) in broader discussion – the transmission path, from animal to human, such as with COVID-19, SARS, MERS, and other virus infections of recent years. Natural habitat destruction and global wildlife trade are factors. Vectors move in times of climate change and bring diseases with them!

Equality and Inclusive Growth The urban-rural divide (with many differentiations in the access to opportunities, access to the digital economy, mis-information overload, access to affordable healthcare) are key issues being confronted (and with varying results during the crisis).

The virus crisis is accelerating the transition to “remote” and digital connectivity in our personal and business lives. This can be positive – and quite negative in the socio-economic divide. A positive: on the opportunity side, remote healthcare can bring benefits to rural areas. The virus crisis day-by-day brings society closer to a “digitized” future. Analyst Anupama Rames sees this: Of all industries being re-shaped, healthcare will be most affected.

And an important note to corporate leaders: BNP Paribas is viewing transformations and market shifts through the lens of its 3E (ESG) framework, to identify public companies being proactive in finding solutions to the societal issues that can support “sustainable returns” for the long-term.

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source: https://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/44856-The-Virus-Crisis-Affects-Business-in-Many-Way-What-Will-the-Risks-and-Opportunities-Result-in-Post-Emergency-BNP-Paribas-Offers-Views-?tracking_source=rss

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