How your organization benefits.

Our solutions are customized to meet the unique needs of each client and generate a positive environmental impact that can be communicated to consumers, customers, employees, investors, and suppliers. 

Instilling sustainability practices is proven to have many positive business impacts. These include lower costs, higher revenues, the ability to attract and retain talent, and increased brand loyalty.The long-term result is a more sustainable, resilient [link to resilience section in the renamed knowledge bank tab] and healthy future for us all.

Why should you invest in enhancing your organization’s environmental profile?

The business benefits of environmental best practices are reflected in the following research:

  1. CONSUMERS CARE

    • Shopping habits have changed. 

      • Over half of shoppers 45 years and younger have changed their shopping habits to prioritize a brand's environmental impact. 

      • 144 million consumers have switched to Amazon’s climate-friendly products since the 

    • Consumers will pay a premium for sustainability. 61% of consumers are paying more for products that are sustainably made, with even higher percentages for Gen Z (63%) and young (73%) and old (65%) millennials (EcoCart, 2024, p. 11).[1] 

    • “Green marketing and green packaging have a significant positive effect on green trust. Green trust, green marketing, and green packaging each has a significant positive effect on green purchase intention." This was borne out in a study of Gen Z Starbucks consumers in Malang City, Indonesia. "Starbucks marketing and packaging practices that support recycling and reuse [motivate] consumers to buy products with environmental concerns."[2]

  2. ENHANCED SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS

    Because “supply chain emissions are on average 11.4 times higher than operational emissions” (Carbon Disclosure Project,2021), . . . supplier emissions can have an outsized impact on a company’s total emissions. A customer’s commitment to reducing environmental impact can also positively affect supplier emissions.”[3]

  3. IDENTIFICATION OF OPPORTUNTITIES FOR INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP 

    Companies with sustainable practices or with a strong ESG strategy are market leaders. The 100 most sustainable companies, as ranked by Corporate Knights, usually outperform the market. From 2005 to 2022, Corporate Knights’ Global 100 generated an investment return of 271%, compared to 222% for MSCI’s All Country World Index.  2023 and 2024 were exceptions due to the strength of AI and oil and gas stocks in those years. For more details, see here. Examples include:
    - Sprouts Farmers Market is committed to the environment and to business operations that reduce its carbon footprint, limit its natural resource use, and prevent waste from going to landfills.  Its stock market performance has far outperformed the S&P 500. For details, click here [link should take web site visitor to Knowledge bank section about Sprouts.]

    - Tony Chocoloney is a Certified B Corp that sells tasty chocolate bars, produced with traceable cocoa beans, fair wages to cocoa farmers, long-term commitments farmers, sustainability programs and professionalized cocoa farming practices, and supporting farmers and cooperatives in their ability to make future investments. Its latest Fair Report demonstrated a 33% revenue increase (or €50 million) in 2024. It achieved this solid growth, despite challenges in ingredient costs for cocoa and sugar and while driving impact in line with its purpose of ending exploitation in the cocoa industry, as depicted below:

Source: https://www.confectioneryproduction.com/news/51488/tonys-chocolonely-annual-report-reveals-revenue-upturn-and-progress-tackling-child-labour/

4. KEEPING UP WITH COMPETITIVE REPORTING

Your Competitors and Companies Recognized as Global Leaders are Reporting Climate, Social, and Governance Metrics:

  • 60% of companies report Scope 1 and 2 [Links to knowledge bank tab] emissions, which are increasingly required by regulation. More than 40% report at least some Scope 3, or value chain, emissions.[4]

  • Sustainability reporting has become business as usual for almost all the world’s largest 250 companies." 95% of the world’s 250 largest companies publish carbon reduction targets and 82% include sustainability information in their annual reports, according to KPMG’s 2024 Survey of Sustainability Reporting [5] As of 2021, 95% of the largest global companies disclosed ESG information, up from 92% in 2020 and 91% in 20196. A 2022 Workiva global survey of a wider sample found that 75% of organizations worldwide had started formally reporting on ESG, climate, sustainability, or corporate social responsibility data in the previous three years7.

  • ESG reporting is even more prevalent among large U.S. companies:

    • S&P 500 Companies: As of 2023, 99% of the S&P 500 companies were reporting on ESG matters in some form8. This has increased dramatically from the 19% of the largest U.S. companies disclosing some level of ESG efforts in 2018.9 The Workiva survey found that 75% of U.S. organizations had started formally reporting ESG, climate, or sustainability data between 2019 and 20227.

    • While the use of the term "ESG" in report titles has declined due to political and reputational considerations, the actual practice of ESG reporting and disclosure remains robust. For example, 87% of S&P 500 firms disclosed climate-related targets in 2024, even as only 25% used "ESG" in their report titles that year.10

  •  Companies cited many opportunities from ESG reporting7:

Sources


[1] EcoCart. (2024). The State of Sustainability in Ecommerce. https://22466049.fs1.hubspotusercontentna1.net/hubfs/22466049/ Sustainability_In_Ecommerce_Consumer_Survey_Report.pdf__3.768da2ac091f14e139cb481e61e427cc.1740962881086.1740962881086.1743015621009.2&hstc=24195465hssc=24195__4653.3.1743015621009&__hsfp=2436917072

[2] Magfiroh, Nila Nailatul, and Amelindha Vania. “We Trust in Green Product: The Impact of Green Marketing and Packagign on Purchase Intention.” Jurnal Kajian Ekonomi & Bisnis Islam, 3093-3108, 5, no. 6 (2024). https://doi.org/1047467/elmal.v5i6.2085.

[3] Song, Sining, Jie Lian, Keith Skowronski, and Tingting Yan. “Customer Base Environmental Disclosure and Supplier Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Signaling Theory Perspective.” Journal of Operations Management 70, no. 3 (April 2024): 355–80. https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1272.

[4] Segal, M. (2024, April 10). More than 40% of Public Companies Now Reporting on Scope 3 Emissions, but U.S. Lagging Far Behind: MSCI. ESG Today. https://www.esgtoday.com/more-than-40-of-public-companies-now-reporting-on-scope-3-emissions-but-u-s-lagging-far-behind-msci/

[5] KPMG. (2024). The move to mandatory reporting: Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2024. KPMG. https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/esg/the-move-to-mandatory-reporting.html

[6] Ho, Soyoung. (2023, March 1). Nearly All Large Global Companies Disclose ESG Information. Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting News. https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/nearly-all-large-global-companies-disclose-esg-information/

[7] Workiva. (2022). ESG Reporting Global Insights 2022. Workiva. https://www.workiva.com/sites/workiva/files/pdfs/esg-reporting-global-insights-full-report-en.pdf

[8] Harris, D. (2023, July 21). 99% of the S&P 500 is Reporting on ESG and 65% are Obtaining ESG Assurance. BDO. https://www.bdo.com/insights/sustainability-and-esg/99-of-the-s-p-500-is-reporting-on-esg-and-65-are-obtaining-esg-assurance

[9] Batish, A. (2023, February 27). ESG Disclosure Prevalence Soared in 2022. EQUILAR. https://www.equilar.com/blogs/552-esg-disclosure-prevalence-soared-in-2022.html

[10] The Conference Board. (2025, April 29). Last Year, Just 25% of Big Companies Used “ESG” in Their Report Titles. The Slowdown Continues in 2025…. PR Newswire. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/last-year-just-25-of-big-companies-used-esg-in-their-report-titles-the-slowdown-continues-in-2025-302441386.html