This report draws insights from a recent roundtable held during the Point Zero Forum 2024.
October 2024
Corporate sustainability appears at a crossroads. Having moved through a phase of wide-ranging sustainability commitments and pledges, this agenda find itself in its delivery period. But as delivery is pursued, real-world challenges are emerging.
It was against this backdrop that climate policy experts, entrepreneurs, NGO representatives, financiers and consultants gathered in Zurich, in July 2024 at the Point Zero Forum, to discuss what concerted action is needed to help business manage the practical challenges their early actions, in pursuit of greater sustainability, have generated.
Drawing upon those conversations, this report first sets the scene, highlighting three broad trends that suggest business is – or will be soon – moving in a more sustainable direction. Left alone, however, these trends are unlikely to be sufficient to deliver widespread, long-term corporate sustainability. The reasons why are also explored.
The final section of the report seeks to articulate what might be done along three core dimensions (a so-called '3D approach' – duty, data, dialogue) to help enhance corporate sustainability, with a particular emphasis on sustainable supply chains.
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