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Chief Sustainability Officers Globally Feel Ambitions Outpace Action on ESG
45% of Ipsos ESG Council members say they spend more time on reporting requirements than on delivering actual ESG priorities.
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Ipsos Update – March 2024
Populism, UX, Love… Ipsos Update explores the latest research & thinking on key topics from Ipsos teams around the world.
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Unilever Creators Study, August and September 2023
New research, carried out between August and September 2023 for Unilever, unveils a growing appetite and interest amongst creators in posting more sustainability content. However, creators need help to build their confidence and knowledge of the intertwined ESG space.
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Ipsos Update – August 2023
Climate change, inequality, artificial intelligence… Ipsos Update explores the latest and greatest research & thinking on key topics from Ipsos teams around the world.
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ESG Council Report 2023
Established in 2023, the Ipsos ESG Council brings together senior level executives with responsibility for sustainability and the development of ESG best practice from some of the most respected corporations in the world.
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ESG – a time for leadership, focus and communication, but above all action
Concluding from the latest Ipsos ESG Council report, it's increasingly clear ESG's role as an agent for positive change.
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Building An Integrated ESG Strategy
When it comes to creating an end-to-end strategic shift in the alignment of ESG with commercial objectives, business leaders have many considerations to take into account. How to ensure ESG feeds into the business planning and value creation process? Do the ESG commitments truly deliver on the ‘North Star’ that is corporate purpose. What are the expectations of stakeholders (both inside and outside the organisation), and how do you balance competing priorities and expectations? How do you ensure the goals you set are ambitious and impactful, and that your reporting addresses the needs of double materiality (financial and ESG data)?
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The Future of ESG?
In light of a recent backlash against ESG investing, we take a critical look at the ESG framework and explore its future relevance for CSOs and organisations.
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Doing Well by Doing Good: Resilience, Risk and the Reputation Value of ESG
ESG creates opportunity, in particular, it helps to drive innovation. Its ‘sustainability lens’ forces businesses to think critically about the long-term value they create, and to identify new trends, business opportunities and partnerships. More broadly, ESG is an increasingly powerful tool to strengthen corporate reputations.
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What is Driving Change: The role of stakeholder management
While the concepts that sit behind ESG are certainly not new - and have been at the centre of corporate strategy for decades - the growth and formalisation of ESG as an explicit mission have been catalysts for change. The impacts of this change are far reaching including how companies define, prioritise and manage their stakeholders. This is demonstrated by the rise of stakeholder capitalism, the notion that businesses no longer exist to create profit for shareholders/owners, but instead have a responsibility to create value for a much broader set of stakeholders.