Top 10 Corporate Sustainability Priorities for 2025

In 2025, corporate sustainability leaders are adapting to shifting policy environments and stakeholder demands while broadening their focus to emerging priorities like biodiversity, water availability, AI, and business integration. This report outlines the top 10 sustainability priorities for the remainder of the year based on analysis of current data, executive insights, and emerging trends.

Top 10 Corporate Sustainability Priorities for 2025

10. AI: AI offers sustainability gains but raises potential environmental, social & governance (ESG) risks.

9. Sustainability storytelling: Beyond core disclosure, effective storytelling can engage diverse audiences and advance goals.

8. Business integration: The embedding of ESG into core functions is uneven but increasingly urgent.

7. Biodiversity: Nature risks are rising; disclosures are growing but measurement remains complex.

6. Water stewardship: Water stress is accelerating local risk strategies and reporting.

5. Supply chain transparency: Due diligence laws and reputational risk are driving deeper supplier scrutiny.

4. Climate strategy: Companies are deepening climate disclosure and aligning capital with risk, despite the evolving policy environment.

3. Return on investment (ROI): Internal expectations are rising to show the business case for sustainability investments.

2. ESG reporting regulations: Mandatory disclosure rules are expanding but increasingly fragmented across jurisdictions. (more…)