Responsible Business USA Executive Forum Report: Shaping the Future of Sustainability’s Role in Business

Key Takeaways

The most significant barriers to the adoption of sustainability:

• Conflicting priorities of various functions are that are key to transformation.
• Friction from clients and suppliers when making changes to the status quo
• The polarization and politicization of ESG are making people more resistant to change

Short-term changes that can be made to your impact measurement and reporting processes include:

• Improving data collection and the communication of objectives and milestones
• Making roadmaps with critical goals and targets – focusing on annual quantitative and quarterly qualitative updates
• Good governance practices on looking at the mid-term engagement of internal and external stakeholders and shareholders