In this Sustainability Impact Digital Summit Moment, excerpted from the digital event which was held on January 26, Puja Mahajan, CEO and Co-founder, Azzera, explains why having a sustainability strategy is becoming a top priority for customers, employees, and soon, publicly traded companies.
Highlights
00:11 — A recent study from McKinsey & Company stated that up to 60% of respondents improved profitability from introducing a sustainability strategy. Sustainability strategies are derived from a data-driven process that considers all business processes and identifies opportunities for improvement.
00:34 — Mahajan notes that sustainability strategies are something that publicly traded companies will soon be required to report — more specifically, their net zero strategy and emissions. This is the starting point that will pressure non-publicly traded companies to do the same.
00:55 — From a stakeholder perspective, the expectation of a sustainability strategy will come from the board soon. Companies “can’t manage what they can’t measure,” so it is crucial that companies start to build upon a net zero strategy and take their emissions into account.
01:11 — From the employee perspective, workers that are millennials and Gen Z are making consumer choices based on whether or not a company is sustainable, including where they opt to work, notes Mahajan. “The workforce is changing, and employees expect their companies to be talking about sustainability and having a sustainability strategy, or at least having sustainable action in the workplace.”
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