2degrees Sustainable Business Trends Tracker
Executive Summary
The 2degrees Sustainable Business Trends Tracker is based on the most comprehensive survey of its kind to date, revealing attitudes towards sustainable business and assessing the measures companies are taking to operate more sustainably, reduce costs and drive growth. The report also looks in detail at the measures undertaken by those accountable for energy performance in companies, identifying which initiatives are proving successful and where opportunities for energy performance improvements still exist.
700 companies participated, including Unilever, Tesco, Coca-Cola, Centrica, Royal Bank of Scotland, Britvic, The Body Shop, BT and McDonald’s.
Get your copy of the Executive Summary for insights into:
- The key challenges to driving sustainable business
- Moving beyond compliance to unlock growth
- Overcoming the barriers to energy performance
Highlights Include
- 80% of companies report that sustainable business is a central or an increasing priority to their business
- Regardless of aims, or stage in the sustainable business journey enagagement remains the #1barrier
- Companies are moving beyond compliance with 53% of respondents indentifying cost saving resource efficiency the primary aim for sustainable business
2degrees Sustainable Business Trends Tracker
The 2degrees Sustainable Business Trends Tracker will enable businesses to benchmark their progress in tackling sustainable business challenges both within their industry and compared to companies in other sectors. It will also help businesses to identify opportunities to act in a more sustainable way and help to better position them for future growth.
Full report to be published February 2014.
About 2degrees
2degrees helps major corporations cut costs, reduce risk and achieve smarter growth by being more sustainable. It does this by helping them transform out-dated business practices, using fully-linked collaboration to make it simple and efficient for them to work closely and at scale with suppliers, internal operations and customers.
It also manages an online collaboration platform with more than 34,000 professional members which acts as an important facilitator, helping to engage, inform and enable companies in a value chain to work together to realise the benefits of being more sustainable. Access to this unique community enabled 2degrees to carry out such a comprehensive survey.