More and more investors and financial institutions are using ESG as an additional consolidated investment metric in their decision making process and expect this trend to continue. The preference for ESG-compliant stocks is strong, and the lack of focus on sustainability and environmental issues is already narrowing the pool of potential investors and financial institutions.

Obviously, companies will have to adhere to the principles of ESG in order to maintain access to capital markets. Investment attractiveness and the opportunity to receive additional funding is a significant enough factor for companies to make the ESG agenda part of their long-term business development plan.

About all this - in the conference "ESG and sustainable development 2023". Speakers are representatives of AFK Sistema, MMK, ENSOR Management Consultants, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Interfax.