The Return on Investment on social sustainability

Environmental sustainability awareness has grown lately but social sustainability still seems like a buzzword without any real raison d'être in business success. So, what exactly is it? And why should social sustainability be part of your business?

Session Takeaways

• CSR encompass the way business earn their money, not the way they spend it
• Sustainable Development = environmental (planet), social (people), profit (economic) sustainability
• Social sustainability = Equity, Diversity, Social cohesion, quality of life, Corporate Governance

Facts Related To This Presentation

• It has been demonstrated that ethnic and gender diverse companies are 20% more innovative and 35% more likely to outperform more homogenous teams
• Companies in the top quartile of gender diversity on executive teams were 25% more likely to have above-average profitability than peer organizations in the fourth quartile of 2019