Live Podcast: The Future of Sustainability in Business: Why Success Depends on Integration

Dan Byrne speaks with EY’s EMEIA Public Policy Leader Andrew Hobbs on the future of sustainability in business and why success depends on integration.

There is a significant gap between sustainability strategy and business strategy: Sustainability is siloed, and boards and management don’t see eye to eye. New EY research shows that this is a mistake. Companies that integrate sustainability into their business are more confident about their outlook. We explore five ways to integrate sustainability strategy into your overall business strategy.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why companies continue to feel the pressure to sustainable
• How misalignment between boards and management leads to worse outcomes 
• How integration of sustainability into strategy bears fruit
• 5 tips to realise more value from sustainabilit

Andrew leads EY’s public policy team for Europe Middle East India & Africa. Its role is to work with key stakeholders on constructive policy development so strengthening the working relationship between the public and private sector. He is chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of Business at the OECD, the Research Advisory Board of the ICAEW and the Corporate Governance Working Group of the European Contact Group whose members comprise the 6 largest accounting networks in the EU.

He is vice-chair of the Corporate Governance Policy Group of Accountancy Europe and a member of the Policy Committee of the investor-led organisation International Corporate Governance Network. He is the co-author of EY’s annual Long-Term Value and Sustainable Corporate Governance Survey and leads EY’s Center for Board Matters in EMEIA. He regularly writes blogs about the role of corporate governance in trust.