2023年6月19日

蒙特利爾大學推出新的環境、社會和治理研究所由加拿大執行官邁克爾·彭納豐業銀行加拿大業務執行和加拿大豐業銀行董事會成員,對公共空間的肖像蒙特利爾大學的6月18日。彭納正在向學校捐贈設立研究所環境、社會和治理(ESG)問題。Andrej伊萬諾夫/環球郵報分享蒙特利爾大學是創建一個新的多學科研究中心研究廣泛的環境、社會和治理問題與加拿大私募股權捐贈執行官邁克爾·彭納和加拿大豐業銀行。周一宣布,將建立大學邁克爾·d·彭納研究所環境、社會和治理問題。研究所旨在汲取專業知識廣泛的學科來研究緊迫的挑戰的業務部門,並使學術嚴謹性日益激烈的討論公司的責任采取行動在氣候變化等問題上和多樣性。研究所將資助一開始基本彭納先生的禮物,一個加拿大私募高管夥伴集團董事長(加拿大)和操作瑞士夥伴集團的合夥人。hydro - quebec公司前董事會主席他也是目前加拿大豐業銀行的董事。一個顧問委員會由兩個高能加拿大高管將引導研究所:查爾斯•Emond Caisse de得寶等位置的首席執行官du魁北克和勞倫銀行首席執行官拉盧埃林將聯合主席。教授和伊莎貝爾馬丁U (M工業學院的關係,將領導機構。加拿大豐業銀行捐贈一個額外的1.5美元來創建可持續發展創新天文台彭納研究所內,刺激創新可持續發展研究和培訓。 Neither Mr. Penner nor the university would disclose the amount of his donation, though he described it as significant enough to establish the institute and ensure its viability over the near and medium term. The university will look to raise more donations, and has had expressions of interest from individuals and institutions, he said. The burgeoning field of ESG has spawned a growing number of experts, standard-setting bodies and alliances, but also devoted critics. Advocates of ESG have framed it as an existential challenge for businesses as well as a moral imperative, while detractors have dismissed it as activist overreach and a distraction from a traditional focus on shareholders that has helped companies create new wealth. To date, the rush to address ESG has been “a bit of a Wild West,” Mr. Penner said in an interview. “Everybody was a self-professed expert.” In that context, he said there is a pressing need for more thoughtful, thorough and reliable information to underpin debates between ESG’s advocates and its naysayers. “At this juncture, at this crossroads we’re at, it’s more important than ever to first of all have the thought leadership that a university can bring, and the academic rigour,” he said. “ESG, if it’s not handled properly, risks being characterized as wokeism or as a distraction to running the business, and that’s a very serious risk.” Researchers at the institute will delve into issues such as the climate transition, labour, corruption, human rights and the treatment of Indigenous communities. And they will be drawn from across disciplines that include law, business, engineering, industrial relations, philosophy, sociology, mathematics, artificial intelligence, political science and economics. “I think ESG needs to start becoming a reflex within organizations, where every thought process is intuitive,” Mr. Penner said. Mr. Penner said he chose the University of Montreal because, after sitting down with rector Daniel Jutras, he concluded the U of M had the right ecosystem of academic talent to conduct the research and amplify its conclusions. By basing that work in Quebec , he hopes to help build bridges between the province’s business community and the rest of Canada. “The university community is well equipped to decompartmentalize and disseminate knowledge,” Mr. Jutras said in a statement. Researchers who will be involved from the university, its HEC Montréal business school and Polytechnique Montréal engineering school “have the expertise to develop it into a far-reaching interdisciplinary project.”