צוות הבלוג של מרכז אריסון ל־ESG

From Methodology to Tool The UN Environment Programme’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report estimates that developing countries will require USD 310–365 billion annually for climate change adaptation by 2035, while international public adaptation finance amounted to only USD 26 billion in 2023. This gap is not only a challenge of mobilizing resources, but also, and perhaps more importantly, of allocating them effectively. When budgets are limited and needs are extensive, determining which adaptation...

the Arison Center for ESG at Reichman University hosted a panel at the Herzliya Conference examining the role of Israel’s business sector in safeguarding democratic resilience.

White-collar crime is shaped not only by individual choices, but also by organizational culture, incentives, and power structures. This post explores how authentic ESG practices—strong governance, ethical culture, and effective reporting and oversight mechanisms—can prevent misconduct by reducing opportunity, challenging rationalizations, and strengthening internal resilience before criminal enforcement becomes necessary.

What can we learn from a country that measures success through happiness rather than GDP? Bhutan offers a framework in which values precede the market and philosophy precedes measurement. While ESG discourse has developed out of risk management and regulatory compliance, the Bhutanese case raises fundamental questions: How can wellbeing be measured without being stripped of meaning? What happens when responsibility is not appended to growth after the fact, but precedes it from the outset?

Following last week’s post, this second and concluding part of the series summarizes additional key insights from the webinar “The EU Sustainability Omnibus” (March 12, 2026. Part II shifts the focus to the personal legal exposure of Israeli directors and officers.