{"id":650371,"date":"2022-12-13T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=650371"},"modified":"2022-12-13T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:54:54","slug":"ey-sustainability-punki-modise-discusses-absas-esg-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/650371\/ey-sustainability-punki-modise-discusses-absas-esg-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"EY Sustainability \u2013 Punki Modise discusses Absa\u2019s ESG projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punki Modise is Absa&#8217;s Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer and previously served as the Interim CEO of Absa Retail and Business Banking.<\/p>\n<p>She joined the Absa Group in 2008 and has since held multiple other senior management roles, too, including Head of Transactional Banking, Chief of Staff for Retail Banking, and CFO of Absa Distribution Channels.<\/p>\n<p>Punki holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Witwatersrand, a Master\u2019s degree in Financial Management from the University of Johannesburg, and is a qualified chartered accountant.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode of EY Sustainability, Punki Modise discusses Absa\u2019s ESG projects \u2013 including why she is so passionate about protecting the environment and promoting sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>She then explains how Absa\u2019s goals and projects are helping to shape a sustainable future for South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Modise breaks down what Absa\u2019s 2030 and 2050 ESG goals entail and concludes by discussing the challenges Absa is overcoming to meet these goals.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview with Punki Modise below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f9jL0uReA60\" 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>Absa\u2019s Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Punki Modise, discusses the bank\u2019s ESG projects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":650381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[29,17475,17683],"class_list":["post-650371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-absa","tag-ey-sustainability","tag-punki-modise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650371","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=650371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650383,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650371\/revisions\/650383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}