The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) with Fu­ture­Plus, a Unit­ed King­dom-based sus­tain­abil­i­ty man­age­ment and ESG re­port­ing plat­form.

The agree­ment was for­malised dur­ing Part II of AM­CHAM T&T’s 2025 ESG Con­fer­ence: Peo­ple, Pur­pose & Progress – Ac­ti­vat­ing the “S” in ESG, held at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port of Spain, on Sep­tem­ber 16. The con­fer­ence brought to­geth­er busi­ness lead­ers, pol­i­cy­mak­ers, and civ­il so­ci­ety rep­re­sen­ta­tives to ex­am­ine how the “S” in ESG can in­flu­ence work­places, com­mu­ni­ties, and long-term plan­ning.

The MOU pro­vides AM­CHAM T&T mem­bers ac­cess to the Fu­ture­Plus plat­form at dis­count­ed rates. The plat­form en­ables com­pa­nies, in­vestors, and as­set man­agers to mea­sure, man­age, and re­port on en­vi­ron­men­tal, so­cial, and gov­er­nance (ESG) per­for­mance across five themes: cli­mate, en­vi­ron­ment, so­cial, eco­nom­ic, and di­ver­si­ty and in­clu­sion.

Through this arrange­ment, com­pa­nies of vary­ing sizes will be able to in­te­grate sus­tain­abil­i­ty in­to their op­er­a­tions while track­ing progress and com­mu­ni­cat­ing out­comes.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of AM­CHAM T&T, Ni­rad Tewarie, said the part­ner­ship moves ESG dis­cus­sions to­ward prac­ti­cal im­ple­men­ta­tion. “ESG is cen­tral to build­ing stronger com­pa­nies, health­i­er so­ci­eties, and more re­silient economies. By equip­ping our mem­bers with ac­cess to a prac­ti­cal tool like Fu­ture­Plus, we are help­ing them un­der­stand where they are, set clear tar­gets, track progress, and de­liv­er on their com­mit­ments to peo­ple, pur­pose, and plan­et. This will not on­ly im­prove com­pet­i­tive­ness but al­so po­si­tion Trinidad and To­ba­go as a leader in sus­tain­able busi­ness prac­tices.”

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Fu­ture­Plus, Alex Smith, said the part­ner­ship aligns with the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s mis­sion. “At Fu­ture­Plus, our mis­sion is to make sus­tain­abil­i­ty ac­ces­si­ble, mea­sur­able, and ac­tion­able for or­gan­i­sa­tions of all sizes. Through this part­ner­ship, we will pro­vide AM­CHAM T&T and its mem­bers with the tools and in­sights need­ed to ef­fec­tive­ly man­age and track their ESG per­for­mance.”

The col­lab­o­ra­tion un­der­scores AM­CHAM T&T’s wider ad­vo­ca­cy on ESG and its aim to equip mem­bers with re­sources to adapt to in­ter­na­tion­al busi­ness stan­dards.