Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:35 pm
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)
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
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
We’re confusing output with impact.
by Kenneth P. Pucker
From the Magazine (May–June 2021)
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