This month, Adam Green speaks to a couple of Accenture’s most experienced leaders when it comes to measuring sustainability. Series regular, Sanjay Podder, Global Lead of Technology Sustainability Innovation, is back, and he's joined by Ambrose Shannon, Accenture's Global ESG Measurement and Analytics Lead.

Together, they discuss why measuring ESG matters, what tools and technologies are available to companies to measure the reams of sustainability-related data available to them, and ask, just why do businesses struggle so much to measure something they know to be so important? Ambrose tackles the talent question: Do I need to turn my finance folks into climate scientists, or do we need to employ some climate scientists and have them become my corporate finance team? And Sanjay looks at the role of the CFO, and the entire C-suite, in holistically investing in the right technology to track, measure and report on sustainability.

To read more about some of the topics discussed in this episode, please click on the following links:

Measuring sustainability. Creating value
In this 2022 report, Accenture drew the following conclusions around sustainability measurement

Uniting Technology and Sustainability
This 2022 study, drawing from a survey of 560 companies with over one billion dollars in revenue, shows how companies with more comprehensive sustainable tech strategies are performing better across the board and presents three key ingredients for success.

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