8 Drivers Of Change – Sustainability

Severe climate events have caused organisations' Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) credentials to gain in prominence, particularly as individuals increasingly look to their employers to act on wider societal issues. However, environmental sustainability has also emerged as a growing factor in values clashes within the workplace.

Climate emergency

The potentially devastating implications of the climate emergency continued to feature prominently over the last year. For example, the severe flooding in South Africa in May 2022 and in Pakistan in August; record temperatures in India in March, in Spain and France in May and June, and in the UK in July; a deadly hurricane in Florida in September; and lethal flooding and landslides in the Philippines in October. In March 2022, temperatures recorded in Antarctica were 35?C above the norm for that time of the year. Droughts have been a feature of 2022 in the UK and in many other countries.