Climate & Sustainability Thought Leadership

The third edition of Deloitte's 2024 CxO Sustainability Report surveyed over 2,100 executives across 27 countries on their views and strategies related to sustainability and climate change, finding more organizations are increasing their sustainability investments, as climate change continues to be one of the top three priorities for global C-suite level business leaders (CxOs).

The United Nations released its latest IPCC report earlier this month, reinforcing that the world is at a climate change tipping point driven in large part by “human-caused” greenhouse gas emissions.

The choice is easy between a prosperous, decarbonized future or allowing the economic impact of climate change to disrupt our growth—but getting to net-zero will require coordination, collaboration and upfront financial investment to rapidly transform existing industries into a series of complex, interconnected, emissions-free systems.

Time is running out to act on climate change. But rather than climate action being a drain on our economy, our Asia Pacific report shows it will significantly boost GDP and accelerate phenomenal growth.

Welcome to the Energy, Resources & Industrials (ER&I) podcast!

 Environment and climate have a direct impact on everyone’s health and well-being. The other side of the coin is that our health care system broadly affects the natural environment.

Just like the rest of financial services, the insurance industry has a critical role to play in enabling the net zero transition. How can the industry help (and incentivise) policyholders to decarbonise their assets and activities? 

Financial services operating models and operational resilience

COVID-19 has led to an intensification of people’s attitudes toward many social and environmental matters. The ways in which the pandemic has exposed issues like income disparity, racial division, and the consequences of human impact on the environment, are motivating more people to take change into their own hands.

What you need to know.

Organizations need to anticipate and adapt to dynamic external issues, traditionally a blind spot. Doing so can make firms more resilient in an activist world.

Deloitte is committed to addressing the urgent climate crisis with achievable, measurable and science-based actions.