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Chief Sustainability
Officers’ Outlook

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Contents


 Foreword                                                     4

 Executive summary                                              5

 1 Progress despite headwinds                                     6

     Short-term outlook                                           6

    Medium-term outlook                                         8

   A transition with many pathways and speeds                       10

 2 From compliance to competitiveness                                11

      Sustainability as a core business capability                          11

    The execution challenge                                        12

 3 AI as an execution accelerator                                     14

     Operational acceleration                                        14

    An uncertain trade-off                                         16

     Building organizational readiness                                 17

 4 Adaptation to secure continuity                                   18

     Adaptation as an operational priority                              18

     Valuing resilience                                             19

     Scaling investment                                         20

 Contributors                                                  21

 Endnotes                                                    22





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September 2026
Chief Sustainability
Officers’ Outlook



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