Sustainability & climate change
Are you responding to the needs and constraints of the local markets in which you operate?
Companies are recognising that more stakeholders in more places are looking for businesses to bring value to their societies. This is being brought into sharper focus by the growing influence of emerging economies, and calls for a new way of operating in the global economy.
What does it mean for your business?
Working together:
- Companies are acknowledging the need to work more closely with a wider range of stakeholders...
- ...such as local governments, populations, partners and workforces.
Long-term commitments:
- Companies are finding that investments which create trust in the community are helping them to achieve sustainable business growth.
- For example, over half of CEOs are telling us that they’re investing to improve living and working conditions where they operate.
Communication:
- Many businesses make an immense and vital contribution to the economy and the communities they serve.
- How are you communicating to customers, employees, investors and communities the value that your business brings to society?
Find out more
- Business is developing real social values – passing trend, protective instinct or what?
- Helping business measure its socio-economic impact
- Creating value through responsible investment: Are the hard and lean going soft?
- Shale oil: the next energy revolution
- Business-not-as-usual: Tackling the impact of climate change on supply chain risk
- Going beyond philanthropy?
- What’s the sustainability impact on the business environment?
- With a growing influence on both securing the deal and on the valuation itself, effective management of ESG factors can lead to positive risk adjusted returns for private equity investors.
- Driving CO2 out of the supply chain and off retailers’ shelves
- South Korea leads Asia on greenhouse gas legislation
- Case study: Breaking new ground in corporate reporting
- Low Carbon Economy Index 2012
- PwC Low Carbon Economy Index 2012: Too late for two degrees?
- Water Valuation
- Picking up the Pace – Accelerating public policies for positive outcomes
- PwC Business Ecosystems Training (BET) Services
- PwC @ Rio+20
- Carbon Disclosure Project 2012
- Renewable energy - Global statement of capabilities
Facts and figures
Half of CEOs say they’re making changes to improve corporate reputations and rebuild public trust.
Contacts
- Malcolm Preston
- Sustainability Global Leader
- Tel: +44 (20) 7213 2502