Sustainability Magazine September 2021 | Page 45

ESG INVESTMENT plans . There is an inherent agility in the private sector which can make innovation and behavioural adoption happen with the speed and purpose that the environmental crisis requires . In the last five years it has often allowed companies to act quickly and decisively , while also acknowledging their wider responsibilities as a service provider or manufacturer , positively engendering a culture shift and even a change of identity within the new world .
Across the globe it is now impossible to look the other way . As oceans become polluted , wildfires rage , flash floods annihilate and species become extinct a situation of biblical proportions has erupted . Critically , companies are reacting and acting on the ground . Targets have been increased , carbon emissions have been reduced and now people are being recruited who devote their entire working lives to the most important agenda on earth .
Some of these intrepid individuals explain to Sustainability Magazine how their companies are taking a leap into the unknown , with an ambition to make it much more certain . sustainabilitymag . com 45