Leading hurdles to sustainability efforts of companies globally 2022

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Erick Burgueño Salas,
Jul 10, 2025
According to a survey conducted in 2022, around ** percent of C-level executives mentioned that the difficulty in measuring environmental impact was the leading obstacle faced when implementing sustainability efforts in their companies. Meanwhile, another ** percent of the executives pointed out that the sustainability efforts were too costly.
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Leading obstacles to sustainability efforts faced by companies worldwide 2022

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Release date

January 2023

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

September to October 2022

Number of respondents

2,016 C-level executives

Supplementary notes

The question was phrased by the source as follows: Select the top five obstacles to driving sustainability efforts.

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