{"id":666203,"date":"2023-02-21T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T07:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=666203"},"modified":"2023-02-21T09:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T07:57:44","slug":"business-talk-standard-banks-joel-buatre-on-why-esg-adoption-is-lagging-behind-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/666203\/business-talk-standard-banks-joel-buatre-on-why-esg-adoption-is-lagging-behind-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Standard Bank\u2019s Joel Buatre on why ESG adoption is lagging behind in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Buatre is the Digital Portfolio Lead for Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) at Standard Bank Group.<\/p>\n<p>Buatre leads CIB Digital\u2019s thinking when it comes to the innovation and development of sustainability and ESG-related products.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his mandate, he leads the development of a framework which is used to evaluate the potential sustainability and ESG benefits of all products and solutions offered through Standard Bank\u2019s OneHub solution.<\/p>\n<p>Buatre has a BCom in Economics and Financial Management from the University of Pretoria and a Post Graduate Diploma in Innovation and Design Thinking from Emeritus.<\/p>\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Buatre talks about how South Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to the adoption of ESG principles.<\/p>\n<p>He discusses why it is important that local businesses take ESG strategy seriously, and unpacks the challenges that are currently holding organisations back from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Buatre then talks about how Standard Bank is trying to help businesses handle these challenges through tools like PowerPulse and WyzeTalk.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Joel Buatre can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQ35CNLnbjI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business Talk interview, Standard Bank\u2019s Joel Buatre explains why South Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to the adoption of ESG principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":666205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-666203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666203","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=666203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666207,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666203\/revisions\/666207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}