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Tag: Business Case for Sustainability

Materiality Mindset: Operationalizing Materiality from Insight to Foresight

Many companies now conduct robust sustainability materiality assessments to meet regulatory and market expectations yet struggle to translate the results into ongoing decision making.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Business Case for Sustainability

Financial quantification: turning insight into evidence

This conclusion brings together the core lessons from the “Making it Count” series, which has provided a forward-looking toolkit for translating sustainability ambition into enterprise value.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Finance, Corporate Performance & Accountability System (CPAS), Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Business Case for Sustainability

How internal carbon pricing can support capital allocation and risk management 

Key Takeaways  Executive Summary  Despite some regions easing climate regulations, carbon pricing remains a critical financial consideration for businesses worldwide. By the close of 2025, 80 emissions trading systems (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Business Case for Sustainability, Investor decision making, Finance, Climate Action

Financial quantification: applying return and cash-flow methods

Introduction: always model the counterfactual To compete for capital, sustainability must be framed in the same quantitative language as any other business investment: return, risk (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Corporate Performance & Accountability System (CPAS), Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Business Case for Sustainability, Finance

Activating the organization for climate mitigation and adaptation  

15% Only 15% of companies disclosing to CDP have a dedicated C-suite position for sustainability, such as chief sustainability officers 21% Only 21% of companies surveyed by (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Climate Catalyst Program, Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Business Case for Sustainability, Net zero, Investor decision making, Decarbonization, Climate, Finance, Climate Action

Financial quantification: discount rate and terminal value

Our previous article, Financial quantification: navigating the greenium and revenue management, explored how businesses are able to capture a price premium in sustainable products and services. In capital markets, the concept plays (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Business Case for Sustainability, Corporate Performance & Accountability System (CPAS), Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Finance

Financial quantification: navigating the greenium and revenue management

This article discusses the “greenium” in the context of pricing of sustainable products and services, both consumer and B2B, compared to conventional options. In a (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Business Case for Sustainability, Financial quantification, Corporate Performance & Accountability System (CPAS), Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A)

Integrating climate with financials: Internal Carbon Pricing 

1753 companies in 56 countries are using internal carbon pricing (ICP) in 2024 +89% increase in organizations using ICP from 2021 to 2024 14% of (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Climate, Finance, Climate Action, Decarbonization, Climate Catalyst Program, Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Business Case for Sustainability, Net zero, Investor decision making

Introduction: Financial quantification of sustainability

Articulating sustainability matters in financial terms, specifically through quantitative measures, to ensure that business value drivers and their effects on EBITDA and Enterprise Value (EV) are clearly understood within this framework.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Financial quantification, Corporate Performance & Accountability System (CPAS), Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Business Case for Sustainability

Financial quantification: leveraging the (inter)dependencies of sustainable investments 

Translating sustainability initiatives into financial terms is nuanced. Their impacts unfold across multiple dimensions of the business and over varying time horizons, making attribution and (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Business Case for Sustainability, Financial quantification, Corporate Performance & Accountability System (CPAS), Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A)

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