2024 was a bad year for sustainability
From climate issues to inequality, 2024 has been a challenging year for sustainability. Three major concerns include elections and political turmoil that threaten progress, companies retreating or remaining silent on DEI and ESG goals, and the rise of sustainability reporting that (temporarily) eats up companies’ time. Other issues seen in the past year include the clean economy reaching tipping points, AI growth threatening decarbonisation, heavy industry making progress, and a crackdown on “greenwashing”.