{"id":634781,"date":"2022-10-18T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=634781"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:05:02","slug":"business-talk-ey-africas-sandra-du-toit-discusses-the-importance-of-esg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/634781\/business-talk-ey-africas-sandra-du-toit-discusses-the-importance-of-esg\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk &#8211; EY Africa\u2019s Sandra du Toit discusses the importance of ESG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra du Toit is the EY Africa corporate finance leader and the market segment leader for energy and natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining EY, she worked at one of Africa\u2019s largest banks and was responsible for originating and executing large, multi-product transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit holds BCom, LLB, and LLM qualifications and has experience in many successful asset sales, acquisitions, IPOs, and de-listings.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, du Toit discusses how some companies still see ESG as a compliance issue, even though it can also help them be more resilient and deliver better results.<\/p>\n<p>She then explains how sustainability makes companies more resilient \u2013 especially in the energy and natural resources sector.<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit concludes by outlining the real-world and practical implications of ESG for African companies, as well as how it can be implemented without breaking the bank.<\/p>\n<p>The interview with Sandra du Toit can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RrLD7UgcE5g\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra du Toit discusses how some companies still see ESG as a compliance issue, even though it can also help them be more resilient and deliver better results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":634805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16402,26],"class_list":["post-634781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-opinion","tag-ey-africa","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635167,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634781\/revisions\/635167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}