These 6 ASX companies just started measuring ESG

A group of ASX-listed companies have started measuring their environmental, social and governance (ESG) worth to report alongside their financial numbers.

Reporting ESG performance had always been an inexact science, unlike well-established accounting standards.

But the World Economic Forum in September published a set of metrics that corporates can use to evaluate their ESG chops.

Using this framework, 6 Australian-listed companies announced Wednesday that they would start reporting ESG metrics in their quarterly reports required by the ASX:

Melbourne tech firm Socialsuite is providing the software for these companies to report their non-financial metrics.

Vulcan Energy is a mining company with a $259 million market…