From April 2020 to March 2021 TSC ran a global listening tour. Twenty-five countries, seventy-five companies, ninety-eight sustainability leaders: chief sustainability officers, chief risk officers, heads of strategy. We asked what was driving ESG, what was getting in the way, and what was coming next.
Their answers sketched a playbook for forward-looking companies. No one claimed to have every answer. This is a record of where the field stood, and where the people leading it thought it was going.
With thanks to the ESG leaders who took part
Alberto Cepa, Alejandra Vazquez, Alexandre Americano, Alison Dilger, Allyson Park, Ana Toni, Andrew Stevens, Antonio Castro, Antonio Meirelles, Apolinar Abel Reza Gonzalez, Assunta Napolitano Camilo, Augusto Cesar Gomes de Oliveira, Benjamin Gatland, Beth Guedes, Bill Cooper, Brian Menell, Carolina Alonso, Cecilia Valdes Canales, Cristina Kenz, Crystal Joy Vistal, Daniel Suarez, Dulce Victoria Venegas, Edward Ferguson, Eid Nader Charly, Fábio Ferreira Cunha, Fernando Almeida, Fernando Maceda Sandoval, Flávia Heller, Flávio Basílio, Frederico Campos Viana, Gil Carrasquinho, Gonzalo Lopez, Gudrun Franken (Dr.), Guilherme Abreu, Herry Ginanjar, Hugo Brodie, Hugo Nogueira, Irene Maranan, Jackson Schneider, Jacqui (Cahill) Murray, Joao Silva, John Killam, Juan Gabriel Aguiriano Nalda, Juan Pablo Corredor, Juliano Griebeler, Karine Bueno, Kate Fernandes, Laila Pinheiro, Laney Brown, Laura-Jane Cornish, Lawrence Heim, Leandro Oliveira, Lieven Cooreman, Liliana Meija, Louis Watum, Ma. Victoria Tan, Marco Carneiro, Marcus Courage, Maria Jose Pineda Cabrales, Maria Luisa Angeles, María Luisa Angeles Grandez, Maria Ximena Alvarez, Marie-Chantal Kaninda, Mark van-Nieuwland, Mauricio Mussi, Mauricio Stella Mussi, Megan Willis, Michael Dillinger, Mônica Alcântara, Nadiya Deferne, Necoechea Porras Pablo David, Neil McGowan, Olebogeng Sentsho, Patrícia Bentes, Peter Major, Rafael Gioielli, Rafaela Murat Gunzburger, Rana Adib, Richard Morgan, Rodrigo Santiago, Rosangela Laurentina dos Santos, Sarita Severien, Sean Killam, Sheila Khama, Terry Grill, Thomas Andre, Valeria Militelli, Vicente Neto, Victoria Monreal, Walfrido Warde, Yoko Saiki, Yulia Dobrolyubova.