The increasing pressure from legislators and the rapidly growing public interest in the topic of sustainability is forcing companies to take a closer look at how their activities affect the environment and society. And, a sustainable corporate management <\/strong><\/span>is increasingly becoming a selection criterion for partners and suppliers. If companies cannot demonstrate active sustainability management, sooner or later they will no longer be competitive. This not only affects large companies, but also SMEs, as the demands are passed on to all companies via the supply chain. Sustainability management has gone from being a “nice to have” to a “must have”!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> In addition, the capital market is currently transforming itself towards sustainability. Sustainable corporate governance leads to an improvement in the ESG rating due to CSRD and the EU Taxonomy, which in turn improves access to capital. In other words, this means that the ESG ranking on the capital market will in future be on a par with the credit rating ranking. And it looks like this will not only apply to large companies, but to all companies. Here you will also find an interview with Dipl.-Ing. Hans Kitzweger, led at the FH Technikum Wien on the topic of \u201cESG\u201d. Among other things, he provides information about the background to the ESG trend and why more or less all companies will soon have to consider and optimize their ESG performance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>