{"id":236359,"date":"2026-06-15T04:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sustainability-still-poorly-understood-despite-gains-leaders-warn-at-esg-forum\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:23:24","slug":"kenya-sustainability-still-poorly-understood-despite-gains-leaders-warn-at-esg-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sustainability-still-poorly-understood-despite-gains-leaders-warn-at-esg-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Sustainability Still Poorly Understood Despite Gains, Leaders Warn At ESG Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">NAIROBI \u2014 Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) discussions in Kenya are growing in frequency across corporate and media spaces, but industry leaders now warn that the concept remains poorly understood, limiting its real-world impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Speaking during the second Sustainability Town Hall of 2026 hosted by Capital FM, stakeholders noted that while organizations are increasingly adopting ESG language, there is still a significant knowledge gap among businesses, communities&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) discussions in Kenya are growing in frequency across corporate and media spaces, but industry leaders now warn that the concept remains poorly understood, limiting its real-world impact. Speaking during the second Sustainability Town Hall of 2026 hosted by Capital FM, stakeholders noted that while organizations are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":236360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,38803,6284,7219,4688,430,4381,257,18463,254,15249,23450,12313],"class_list":["post-236359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-esg","tag-forum","tag-gains","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-poorly","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sustainability","tag-understood","tag-warn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}