ESG has swiftly become central to many corporate financial and policy discussions and is increasingly a significant topic of boardroom decision-making throughout the globe. Victor is in a unique position to take a leadership role in ESG, within our own industry and via education and services for our customers. Below you'll find a wealth of ESG-related resources.

ESG Risk Rater

Attention Victor insureds: to learn more about the ESG Risk Rater Assessment and request access, visit victorinsuranceus.com/esgriskrater.  

Blog Entries

• Debunking the myth: How ESG risks are actually financial risks
  
• Bound by a common thread: Understanding the link between ESG and license to practice
• Designing a better future: The importance of ESG for design firms
• US climate law takes shape
• Embodied carbon reduction in the built environment
• Hurricane Ian shows that updated building codes make a difference
  
• Design firms should take the ESG bet
  
• Lack of standardization hinders modular construction growth
• Connecting the dots: business risks and climate change
• Firms can share COVID-19 tool with employees
• DOE releases energy-saving rules for federal buildings
• SEC moves to normalize climate risk as financial risk
• Opportunity knocks, but…
• ASCE releases updated standard for building loads
• TCFD and me: Why it matters
• U.S. achieving its global climate commitments starts with infrastructure
• 2021 Global climate talks: Connecting the dots to business
• New ESG baseline for professional services
• Environmental, social, and governance disclosures for private design firms
• Climate and infrastructure policy linked
• Net zero modeling answers “how to” for policymakers
• Be wary of seasonal gifts and benefits to public employees
• As COVID-19 disruptions continue, evaluate your prevention efforts
• ASTM releases new Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment Standard
• Prepare your crisis management plans
• Facing the challenges of 2022
• Solar panels and the designer’s moral dilemma
  
  
  
  

Webinars/Podcast

• Unlock Your Firm’s ESG Potential with Victor’s ESG Risk Rating Tool 
  
• Reducing Embodied Carbon: Opportunities and Risks for Design Professionals
• Demystifying ESG for Design Firms: Risks and Opportunities
  
• Taking the Lead to Address Climate Change
• Design Liability in a Changing Climate
• Insureds wanting to enroll in the courses below must first request a Victor website account for access. If you already have an account, you can access courses here.
  
  • Anti-harassment courses
  • Ethics courses
• Peek Behind the Curtain: Federal Stimulus and Project Development 
• Risk in context podcast: COP26’s key takeaways and what they mean for businesses
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Design Summit presentations

• Codes at the Core of Climate Solutions
• Compound Flooding from Hurricane Florence, Now and in the Future
  
• Design Liability in a Changing Climate

Articles/White Papers

• Protecting Transgender Employees in the Workplace
• Designing for Sustainability
• Health Products Declarations & Sustainability Risks
• Questions for a Green Project
• Risks in Materials Transparency Movement
• Sustainable Design Practice Management Precautions
• Managing the Risks of Employment Practices
• Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment
• Protection from Third-Party Sexual Harassment
• Pandemic Risks
• Restoring Neglected Assets: Brownfields Reuse and Related Risks
• Design Professional's Duty to Design for Resiliency
• Five Market Trends for Design and Construction Professionals
• Fair Housing for All
• Pregnant? You're Fired!
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