Opportunity Summit Workshop Outcomes Report

It's time to reframe the 'net zero' debate. But how?

Outcomes from the workshop: Net zero hasn’t failed. How we’ve framed it might have.

Eight in ten executives are reframing their net-zero strategies in operational, financial and strategic terms, embedding them in the investment decisions, cost structure and competitive positioning that determine what survives the next planning cycle. They are not retreating, they are reframing. But are they getting it right?

A new paper from SE Advisory Services and IESE Business School finds that across operating efficiency, supply-chain resilience, talent, customer access and capital, the returns to strategic sustainability integration are measurable, distributed and growing. They are also consistently undervalued, which is precisely why the gap between what integration delivers and what most companies capture remains so large.

Read the report to see how we unpacked what separates the companies closing that gap from those still managing sustainability as a reporting obligation: governance that connects sustainability to capital allocation, incentives that reward delivery, and the digital infrastructure that makes performance visible in financial terms. Because behind the mechanics sits a bigger question: how much value is on the table, and what would it take to reclaim it?

👇 Read the full report to explore the the insights and outcomes from the session.