The world’s largest companies are improving on climate reporting, but progress is lagging in key areas of sustainability and ESG, KPMG's latest survey of sustainability reporting has found.
According to the study, which analyses sustainability and ESG reports from 5,800 companies across 58 countries and jurisdiction, over 79% of leading firms provide sustainability reports, up from two-thirds of top 100 companies ten years ago. However, less than half report on the social and governance components of ESG and over 25% have no link to external ESG targets. In addition, only one third of the top 100 companies in each country or jurisdiction analysed have a dedicated member of their leadership team responsible for sustainability and less than one quarter of these companies ...
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