Integrated transition: the next stage of corporate delivery and accountability

The world’s most influential companies must move from commitments and targets to planning, implementation and performance improvements. This can no longer be achieved in silos. Both the urgency to act on global challenges and companies’ own risks underscore the need to address climate, nature and social dimensions in an integrated way.

Integration must happen both horizontally, by considering interdependence between social, nature and climate, and vertically, by embedding the transition in operations, business and financial processes.

Transition planning is ultimately a question of business credibility. It involves testing whether a company’s strategy, operations and capital allocation, revenue model and overall value creation are genuinely aligned across climate, nature and social. Or whether sustainability commitments are detached from how a company operates and creates value. 

This white paper lays out how companies must take ownership of their transition and shift focus from commitments to delivery. And from fragmented strategies to an approach that addresses all climate, nature and social impacts as well as the interdependence between them and their interaction with AI and other technology shifts.