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Overselling Sustainability Reporting

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This is an extensive article from Harvard Business Review that makes some very good points, and you can either read the entire article or listen to it via a podcast, so I'm cutting this off at the podcast. ;)

Overselling Sustainability Reporting
We’re confusing output with impact.
by Kenneth P. Pucker
From the Magazine (May–June 2021)


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Isamu Sawa

Summary. For two decades progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured and reported on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...


Over the past 20 years many forward-thinking academics, consultants, executives, and NGO leaders have promoted a theory outlining how businesses can prosper while pursuing a greener and more socially responsible agenda. These people, whom I refer to collectively as “Sustainability Inc.,” believed that if companies committed to measuring and reporting publicly on their sustainability performance, four things would happen: ... "

https://hbr.org/2021/05/overselling-sus ... -reporting
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