Monash Sustainability Enterprises

Monash Sustainability Enterprises (MSE) was established in July 2000 as a consulting, advocacy, and training arm of the Monash Centre for Environmental Management. MSE is involved in a number of research initiatives and commercial ventures to promote more sustainable practices in the investment and finance sectors. Through its partnership with the BT Financial Group, MSE has pioneered the practical application of environmental and social rating and analysis for financial institutions in Australian financial markets.

MSE seeks to engage industry to communicate the business case for sustainable development, develop robust methodologies to identify linkages between sustainability and financial drivers, and develop advanced metrics to gauge progress toward sustainability targets.

MSE provides a commercial focus for Monash's business and sustainability programs, building and extending on ten years of engagement with Australian industry through the activities of the Monash Centre for Environmental Management.

Key personnel span a wide range of disciplines, providing both breadth and depth of experience across industry. MSE also maintains close affiliations with other research and commercial institutions within Monash to provide enhanced capabilities for specific assignments including:

• the Department of Management
• the Monash Sustainability Institute
• Castan Centre for Human Rights

MSE Mission

Mission Statement: MSE's mission is to promote sustainability practices in the corporate sector by facilitating the adoption of sustainability assessment into mainstream financial markets. This mission recognizes the central role performed by the finance sector as an enabler of corporate activity, and specifically, through assessments of risk and opportunity embedded in investment and provision of finance. MSE seeks to demonstrate opportunities to protect and enhance value and mitigate risk in financial decision-making through robust assessment of sustainability issues.

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