Seas, mountains, ESG and sustainability

Executive summary

A wide-ranging Sustainably Talking conversation from ocean health to alpine ecosystems, and what they reveal about the gap between corporate ESG narratives and the physical world they're meant to describe.

Key takeaways

• Ocean and mountain systems sit outside most corporate materiality assessments despite being highly exposed.
• Biodiversity disclosure is following carbon disclosure on a roughly 5-year lag.
• Natural-capital accounting only works when boards treat it as a strategic, not compliance, exercise.

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Sustainably Talking

Sustainably Talking

A Sustainably Talking conversation on natural capital and the limits of disclosure.