A decade ago, the landscape of corporate sustainability was almost unrecognisable. AI was still more Spielberg than strategy, and ‘net zero’ had yet to enter the corporate lexicon. Two years after the Paris Agreement, businesses were beginning to translate pledges into early strategies, not yet racing towards a lower-carbon future.

Ten years on, that landscape has been tested, reshaped, and in some cases, hardened into realism. In hindsight, 2016 looks less like a moment of achievement and more like a genuine tipping point – the start of something far more complex than many expected.

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