Strategic Focus: How AI Is Reshaping Sustainability Teams
Kim Knickle
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Executive Summary
AI is reshaping sustainability teams’ priorities, capabilities and risk profiles. As sustainability functions adopt AI, starting with streamlining reporting and data management, concerns are growing about the implications of scaling it across enterprises. This report analyses the duality of AI as both an opportunity and a challenge for sustainability teams and its potential to fundamentally change their role within organizations. Sustainability leaders, practitioners, and software and service providers can use this report to understand the questions they should be asking – and answering – as firms grapple with responsible AI governance, strengthen data foundations and upskill on AI impacts.About the Authors
Callum Millard
Analyst
Callum is an Analyst at Verdantix, helping firms navigate the evolving ESG, sustainability, product innovation and product stewardship landscapes, to drive value creation and ...
View ProfileKim Knickle
Research Director
Kim Knickle is a Research Director at Verdantix, bringing more than two decades of analyst experience to the evolving world of sustainability. Her current research spans ESG a...
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