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Sustainability is good business. Achieving it can be cost-neutral and even create net gain. That's what 1,000 senior business and finance leaders across the UK & Europe told us when we spoke to them about: the financial risks and gains companies are facing; when to act; and which companies are most at risk. Failing to shape your sustainability strategy now could mean business-critical challenges in the very near future.
SUSTAINABILITY:
Pain to Net Gain
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Sustainability is just
good business
Sustainability:
Now or Never
Sustainability:
Be Green or Be Gone
Businesses do not face a trade-off between short-term profitability and long-term sustainability; proactive sustainability strategies and initiatives can bring immediate financial gain as well as assuring an organisation’s longer term success
Amanda Gray, Co-head of Financial Services Sector,
Addleshaw Goddard
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Proactive sustainability strategies and initiatives are bringing immediate financial gain as well as assuring an organisation’s longer term success.
Business leaders need to embed sustainable thinking into their organisations. Those that don’t act now risk losing access to funding
Mid-market businesses, which typically have fewer resources than their larger competitors, are struggling to prioritise sustainability.
View 60 second videos on three key insights from our interviews with 1000 business and finance leaders across the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands:
Sustainability is good business.
Sustainability: we have four years to act.
Sustainability: mid-market companies are most at risk.
The biggest impact we can have is supporting customers to transition and accelerate their own ESG improvements. We can help to equip businesses with the awareness and the knowledge they need, and then support them to invest in equipment and technology to make the transition
Kirsty Britz, Director of Sustainable Banking,
NatWest
There’s a realisation about climate change and what we can all do. COVID has made us understand the importance of society and community. People understand that in order for their business to compete and survive, they will have to follow this agenda.
Sarah Banham, Head of Community & Sustainability,
Battersea Power Station Development Company
Sustainability is more than just good business; it’s a necessity. The incentives for acting sustainably are doing the right thing and having a business that’s sustainable in the long-term. The businesses outperforming on sustainability metrics will outperform in terms of capital.
Philip Newborough, co-CEO,
Bridges Fund Management
SUSTAINABILITY: PAIN TO NET GAIN
Find out what 1000 business and finance leaders said about sustainability in your industry sector. Download a short PDF summary below.
Sustainability: Be green or be gone
Sustainability: Now or never?
Sustainability is
just good business
Act now to get ahead
Which companies are most at risk?
Why you have just 4 years to act on sustainability
Financiers are the new activists
Proof that sustainability is good business
Sustainability is just good businesses
Proactive sustainability strategies and initiatives are bringing immediate financial gain as well as assuring an organisation’s longer-term success.
Survey conducted in 2021 under the ethical research guidelines set by both the MRS (Market Research Society) and ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Market Research). With 550 senior business leaders and 450 finance leaders (including investors, banks and insurers) based in the UK, Germany the Netherlands and France.
say that sustainability-driven initiatives were a net gain (avg 2% increase) or cost neutral for their business in 2020.
95%
of business leaders
2020
of business leaders
2025
98%
expect a net
gain of 3.5%
The potential growth from sustainability initiatives (for our respondents sample alone). More than double the 2020 growth figures.
76,800,000,000 billion
of companies
92%
have felt more pressure from banks than media or social influences (51%)
of businesses
86%
are feeling significant pressure from investors and insurers
Financiers are
the new activists
Finance providers (investors, lenders and insurers) are now putting sustainability at the heart of how they operate and are demanding that other businesses do the same. Making banks a more significant influencer than any other group, including government and consumers.
of the finance community
100%
say they will have stopped providing services to at least two sectors by 2025
Sustainability:
Now or never?
Business leaders need to embed sustainable thinking into their organisations. Those that don’t act now risk losing access to funding.
of medium-sized businesses
17%
say that sustainability is in their boardroom’s top two priorities, compared to over a quarter of very large businesses (26%)
Be green
or be gone
Mid-market businesses, which typically have fewer resources than their larger competitors, are struggling to prioritise sustainability.
of businesses
2021
21%
say sustainability is a top two priority now
of businesses
2025
76%
say sustainability will be a top two priority by 2025
Act now to get ahead
Companies that take action now have the chance to get an edge over competitors. Now is the time for businesses of all sizes to develop, articulate and embed their sustainability strategy across their business.
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Sustainable Supply: break the mould or break the chain?
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Survey conducted in 2021 under the ethical research guidelines set by both the MRS (Market Research Society) and ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Market Research). With 550 senior business leaders and 450 finance leaders (including investors, banks and insurers) based in the UK, Germany the Netherlands and France.
Survey conducted in 2021 under the ethical research guidelines set by both the MRS (Market Research Society) and ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Market Research). With 550 senior business leaders and 450 finance leaders (including investors, banks and insurers) based in the UK, Germany the Netherlands and France.
Survey conducted in 2021 under the ethical research guidelines set by both the MRS (Market Research Society) and ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Market Research). With 550 senior business leaders and 450 finance leaders (including investors, banks and insurers) based in the UK, Germany the Netherlands and France.
Survey conducted in 2021 under the ethical research guidelines set by both the MRS (Market Research Society) and ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Market Research). With 550 senior business leaders and 450 finance leaders (including investors, banks and insurers) based in the UK, Germany the Netherlands and France.
Sustainability represents a range of business risks and opportunities and should be considered and managed holistically alongside other business risks and opportunities.
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Sustainability: Juggling Priorities
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Sustainability is good business.
Sustainability:
we have four years to act.
Sustainability: mid-market companies are most at risk.
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Sustainable Supply Chains
People are at the heart of sustainability success. Are companies truly embracing this or just virtue signalling?
Sustainability: Engaging People
9:30am-10:30am
20th May
Can sustainability provide a competitive advantage that will see survival of the greenest? Or is it yet another pressure for boards to manage?
Sustainability: Juggling Priorities
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10th June
Competing sustainability reporting standards are confusing and slowing progress. How do we tackle it?
Sustainability: Data and reporting
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24th June
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Sustainability: Things To Consider
Weather & Climate
Governance
Transport
Property
Supply chain
Waste & recycling
People
Carbon offsetting
Heat & energy use
Institutional investors
Green is good
Transition now
Mid-sized business risk
Under pressure
Supply chains, investment, metrics
Supply chain pressures
Reporting standards are causing confusion
Position of influence
Unlikely activists
Leeway to transition
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Sustainable Supply Chains
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Sustainability: Engaging People
prioritise the ‘s’ of ESG
Sustainability: Juggling priorities
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Sustainability:
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