Six Pitfalls to Avoid When Mobilizing for Sustainability
Companies are making bold commitments to improve ESG performance. But to successfully deliver on their goals, they must steer clear of these common challenges.
Companies are making bold commitments to improve ESG performance. But to successfully deliver on their goals, they must steer clear of these common challenges.
Few retailers excel at being green, but the need for improvement is acute. Where is your company on the maturity curve?
Achieving ESG goals and building sustainability as a competitive advantage requires integrating technology and data from the beginning.
We propose an iterative cycle of activity that helps companies optimize for both business value and social value in a single business model.
In this episode, Rich Lesser, BCG’s global chair, explains how the climate crisis impacted his role as CEO and his thoughts on the climate challenge.
Biodiversity is being destroyed around the globe—with dire implications for business and society. Here’s how companies can protect local ecosystems and build competitive advantage.
Unless companies’ climate targets align with the latest science, they won’t be sufficient. Leaders must embrace bold action internally, within their value chains, and beyond.
Education is a powerful means of spurring behavioral change and collective action, cultivating green skills, ensuring a just transition to a sustainable economy, and building communities' adaptive capacity.
By gaining deeper insights into the status and efficacy of their climate initiatives, companies can accelerate efforts across the value chain.
The race to net-zero emissions will forever change the way many companies do business. The immediacy, pace, and extent of change are still widely underestimated. Early movers can seize significant advantage. This report shows how.
Is the promise of a greener world closer than we think? BCG Partner & Associate Director Jens Burchardt maps out the costs and considerations of producing planet-friendly products, and explains why curbing climate change does not have to break the bank.
BCG Center for Climate & Sustainability
We partner with businesses and governments to help them transform commitments into action and build a decarbonized, more sustainable world, driving technological and economic transformations to realize sustainable competitive advantage. We partner with clients across the public, private, and social sectors to align their strategy, operations, and stakeholder engagement with a low-carbon world. Our work is supported by BCG’s experience across all industries and capabilities and by our reach of brands.
Companies that view environmental, social, and governance initiatives as an exercise in compliance, rather than a source of competitive advantage, are leaving substantial value on the table.
Board members at companies across geographies and industries understand that competitive advantage increasingly demands sustainability. And that is rapidly pushing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues higher on board agendas.
This report outlines a vision for the evolution of the compliance and voluntary carbon markets and provides key recommendations for market participants, policymakers, regulators, climate science bodies, and other stakeholders.
CEO Christian Sinding Discusses ESG’s Importance to His Company and the Industry.
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What has worked, what can be improved, and what needs to be reimagined so that we are better prepared for the next pandemic and better able to improve health in the world’s poorest nations?
BCG Managing Director & Partner Johanna Benesty looks at barriers to "equitable access"—making sure COVID-19 therapeutics are available to all—and shares a creative approach to vaccine research and development.
The need for a successful roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines cannot be overstated. What are the four key elements to consider when planning an end-to-end vaccination deployment?
Learn more about the advanced analytics techniques that allow us to better understand at-risk populations, predict patterns of disease, and optimize treatment decisions for HIV/AIDS.
The humble toilet is undergoing a transformation, unlocking a vast new opportunity—not just to capture value but also to change lives.
Governments need to look beyond traditional economic metrics like GDP to foster sustainable development and prepare for future crises. They can start by focusing on three priorities.
Governments that can balance urgent economic stabilization with structural reforms supporting long-term development will build a stronger foundation for the future. Nigeria’s inclusive approach is a case in point.
Africa’s digital maturity trails other regions, but its digital adoption is rapid. To maintain momentum, companies and governments need to coordinate to build scale, nurture talent and build innovation hubs.
Empowering women who own businesses by removing barriers to equality of opportunity could fuel massive global economic growth.
African governments must develop a response that is comprehensive, adaptive, and implemented effectively in order to take fast action in several areas.
An impact-driven investment model that can mitigate crises and strengthen the self-reliance of fragile communities while providing financial returns.
Applying a new approach to chronic child hunger in Tanzania yields powerful lessons for governments and organizations that are tackling other tough challenges.
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New regulations are pushing farmers and their suppliers to adopt environmental practices. Traditionalists see this as a disruption, but leaders will treat it as an opportunity.
Efforts that focus on increasing subsistence farmers’ yields have achieved scant success. It’s time for a radical rethinking of food policies on the continent.
Food traceability is here to stay. The question is whether food companies, distributors, and retailers treat it as a regulatory burden or a strategic opportunity.
The environmental, economic, and social costs of food aren’t included in the price. Stakeholders must account for them to limit agriculture’s adverse effects and increase its positive impact.
The US desperately needs workers. Workers desperately need help taking care of their children and (increasingly) their parents.
Gender diversity can be a profound business challenge—or a source of competitive advantage. But it’s not women who need to change. It’s the workplace.
Misconceptions about Black and Latinx un/underbanked households make it hard for the financial sector to address the problem effectively.
To create inclusive workforces and inclusive products, companies must treat inclusion as a business innovation. Bridging the racial wealth gap requires committed resources and responsibilities.
Postsecondary institutions are facing calls for accountability. Smart academic advising reforms can boost graduation rates—without breaking the bank.
Due to COVID-19, over 50 million K–12 public school students in the United States are learning remotely. How can equitable access to high-speed internet and computing devices be achieved for all?
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