Archive for September 20th, 2012
Deloitte Survey Shows CFOs Are Hopping Aboard Sustainability Train
Chief financial officers worldwide have spoken, and they are aligning themselves with their companies’ sustainability strategies.
Nearly half (49 percent) of 250 CFOs polled by a recent Deloitte survey indicated that they find a significant link between sustainability performance and financial performance. Deloitte’s findings are published in “Sustainability: CFOs are coming to the table” and highlight the responses of CFOs in 14 countries and five continents.
Survey responses indicate that more executives are turning to sustainability for a competitive advantage: Most CFOs polled (66 percent) indicated that the investment of cleantech products is “important” to their firms, while 59 percent viewed cleantech acquisitions or sustainability assets as important. Read the rest of this entry »


