Strategic Focus: Five Insights For Leaders From The Verdantix Sustainability Council

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Executive Summary

On June 5, 2025, Verdantix hosted its second Sustainability Council Roundtable, where nine sustainability leaders discussed their challenges and priorities. Key topics discussed during this second session span supply chain data, CSRD compliance and nature strategies, addressing challenges in collecting data across complex value chains, prioritizing different sustainability strategies and ensuring regulatory compliance alongside meaningful decarbonization. This report provides five insights from the discussion. 
Sustainability Council members are faced with challenges across data collection and prioritization
Sustainability leaders are focusing efforts on ensuring regulatory compliance

About the Authors

Isobel McPartlin

Isobel McPartlin

Analyst

Isobel is an Analyst at Verdantix, where she supports corporate decision-makers in navigating the energy transition through research on emerging energy solutions and net zero ...

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Kim Knickle

Kim 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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