Nearly nine out of ten senior business professionals believe that business has an important role to play in managing the effects of climate change (88%), and that active engagement will not only help mitigate any associated risk, but could also unlock significant business opportunities (73%). Although over half of the 900 international finance and sustainability professionals believe that their organisations are committed to mitigating climate change, many acknowledge that more could be done to reduce their environmental impact (63%). The fact that over half of the respondents state that their organisations do not see climate change as a strategic priority, with one in five saying that climate change is not on their organisation’s agenda at all, seems to support this. (PDF 3.5MB)