The impact assessment practitioner has been at the forefront of environmental and social safeguarding while the infrastructural needs for a changing world for a long time. The ESHIA is the foundation of ESG with its strengths in reporting, impact measurement and replicable character and scenario planning with all the technical modeling which TCFD needs is all in the traditional paradigm of impact assessment.
The language of integrated risk is similar as in ESG and ESHIA, both have moving parts as human rights, climate and community are common to both. ESG is an everyday operations matter while ESHIA and EMP and an ESAP are a pre construction and construction phase affair and usually is asset oriented.
The H in the ESHIA is now Human Rights with Health being an embedded element. After all, Environmental and Social Planning is not new with an rich intellectual genealogy since the 1970s.
ESHIA is a key intellectual mechanism for the responsible transition, as stakeholder social licence to operate has been a key part of the process, albeit imperfections being carried into the future.
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