Building a Sustainability Culture: Overview and Insights

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Building a Sustainability Culture: Overview and Insights

10 July 2023 / Report

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CEO Insight Minute: How Do You Integrate Sustainability into Business Strategy?

Discover how to make sustainability an enduring part of your company's cultural DNA.

The transition to a more environmentally and socially sustainable economy has the potential to rival the scale and impact of the digital revolution. To take advantage of this transition, companies integrating sustainability into their business must also incorporate sustainability into their culture. A sustainability culture can help a firm maximize the benefits for the company, its stakeholders, society, and the natural environment.

Brief 1: Six Challenges and Five Guiding Principles to Get Started
Brief 2: Who Is Responsible for Driving Change?
Brief 3: Evaluating, Measuring, and Reinforcing Cultural Progress

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Authors

Paul Washington

Paul Washington

President and CEO
Society for Corporate Governance

Lindsay Beltzer

Lindsay Beltzer

Lead Program Producer, ESG
The Conference Board

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