Sustainability managers in 2024:
- Short on staff
- Shorter on budgets
- Unaware colleagues
- Drowning in demands
- Impatient stakeholders
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Consultancies often just scratch the surface and cost a lot.
Recruiting new colleagues sounds easier than it is.
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Any firm that says stuff like "sustainability is part of our DNA/core strategy" should staff and fund the sust team like a vital organ, rather than a cosmetic by hiring one (or half 🙄) of an ESG manager and call it done. Outsourced is also fine, point is budget-holders need to be realistic and not spend $10k and expect $1m of work done.
By comparison, tech companies are often measured by how much they spend on R&D as a percentage of revenue (15-20% and higher for early stage/breakthrough innovations) because investors understand that's an indicator of future growth and competitive edge.
Budgets don't lie. ESG disclosure frameworks should ask for sustainability team stats/spending (in-house or outsourced) to help investors gauge true level of effort.
From 2015
