Business Sustainability Research

Sustainability requirements are increasingly showing up in customer requests, tenders, supply chains and regulatory processes.

I’m researching how businesses actually deal with these requirements - what they’re being asked for, what takes the most time, and where the biggest gaps are.

This survey takes 3–4 minutes. Your responses will help inform research into better tools for businesses navigating sustainability requirements.

1. What best describes your role?

2. How many employees does your organisation have?

3. In the past 24 months, has your organisation been asked to provide sustainability, ESG, environmental or carbon information?

Yes, several times

Yes, once or twice

Not sure

4. Who has asked you for this information?

5. What have you been asked to provide?

6. What's the biggest challenge when providing this information?

We don't have the required data

We have the data but it's difficult to find

We don't know how to calculate it

We don't know what's actually required

We lack internal expertise

Different organisations ask for different things

It takes too much time

We rely on consultants

We don't currently have a major challenge

7. How much time does your organisation typically spend responding to a substantial sustainability request?

8. Has a sustainability requirement ever affected a business opportunity?

Yes — we lost / withdrew from an opportunity

Yes — it delayed or complicated an opportunity

Yes — it helped us win an opportunity

Possibly, but we're not sure

Not applicable

9. If you could make one part of dealing with sustainability requirements easier, what would it be?

10. Would you be interested in a short follow-up conversation about your experience?

Yes — happy to chat

Maybe