Building credible climate commitments: A road map to earning stakeholder trust
With stakeholders leery of greenwashing, how to close the trust gap on leaders’ climate pledges? By making commitments authentic to the organization’s purpose and fulfilling them. To understand the market environment with respect to climate commitments, the authors undertook both qualitative and quantitative analysis, with multiple interviews with chief sustainability officers, advisers, and environmental, societal, and governance (ESG) investment professionals as well as Deloitte leaders and practitioners providing ESG assurance to clients.