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Sustainability Value Triangle

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For finance, IT, and sustainability leaders looking to strengthen collaboration and maximize business impact, the Sustainability Value Triangle Report: Creating Impact through Finance, IT, and Sustainability provides practical insights and best practices.

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Unlocking business value through sustainability integration

New research from the Sustainability Value Creation Partnership reveals that businesses with deeply integrated sustainability strategies unlock greater value—driving innovation, boosting sales, enhancing reputation, and improving cost control. However, while two-thirds of leaders recognize sustainability’s importance to commercial success, only 37% report full integration within their organizations.

Key insights from the report

  • Tangible financial benefits – Highly integrated companies report strong financial returns, with two-thirds seeing significant value in sales growth, far outpacing less integrated organizations.
  • The sustainability value triangle – A strategic collaboration between Finance, IT, and Sustainability functions ensures a clear financial business case and high-quality data for decision making.
  • The role of reporting – Companies with deeper integration leverage sustainability reporting as a strategic tool, despite ongoing debates about its impact on value creation.
  • AI’s growing potential – While only 6% of leaders currently see significant value from AI in sustainability, half expect it to become a game-changer within two years, particularly in reporting, measurement, and cost management.

Project partners

The Sustainability Value Creation Partnership brings together five leading organizations with a shared vision for advancing enterprise-wide value creation based on sustainability. The partners include Accounting for Sustainability, SustainableIT.org, The ERM Sustainability Institute, Salesforce and GlobeScan.

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