Press Release: Companies and Governments Lag NGOs in Driving Sustainability but New Corporate Leaders Emerging, According to Experts

22 Jul 2009 – News Release

Business and political leaders are currently lagging far behind NGO leaders and social entrepreneurs in driving the move to sustainability, according to a new global poll of sustainability experts.

From the press release:
London, Toronto, and Washington DC (July 22, 2009) – Business and political leaders are lagging far behind non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders and social entrepreneurs in driving the move to sustainability, according to a new global poll of sustainability experts. But a new generation of corporate leaders driving change may be starting to emerge.

Findings from the inaugural annual Sustainability Survey by GlobeScan and SustainAbility show that thought leaders across the world view corporate leadership on sustainability to be far behind that of NGOs and social entrepreneurs, and only slightly better than governments in pushing the sustainability agenda forward.

More than 1,600 experts were surveyed in March 2009 on a range of topics related to sustainability. Respondents are drawn from corporate, government, NGO, academic, research, and service organizations, and span more than 90 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. The Sustainability Survey is the largest global poll of the views of sustainability experts.

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