ESG ACROSS BORDERS: THE CULTURAL CONTEXTJuly 2023IPSOS VIEWSESG SERIES2 – Ipsos | ESG Across Borders: The Cultural ContextBRAZILPage 50 CONTENTSFOREWORDPage 03THE KALEIDOSCOPE OF EQUALITYPage 18“SUSTAINABILITY”: ARE WE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE?Page 06 THE CLIMATE OF CLIMATE CHANGE OPINIONPage 26 APPLYING CULTURAL TRANSFERABILITY ANALYSIS TO ESGPage 34 SOUTH AFRICAPage 54 CHINAPage 58INDIAPage 46USPage 41 3 – Ipsos | ESG Across Borders: The Cultural ContextFOREWORDEnvironmental. Social. Governance. The domain of ESG stretches across a broad range of themes that are just as complex as they are far-reaching. To truly understand how society is evolving on ESG, we need to go really deep. A superficial understanding of the subject is unlikely to be enough. These are, after all, some of the most pressing and urgent challenges facing our world today. And further complicating matters, many ESG topics are interconnected, making it difficult to look at them in isolation. Like the Academy Award-winning film, it can feel like Everything Everywhere All at Once.Lauren Demar Chief Sustainability Officer and Global Head of ESG, Ipsos Lauren.Demar@Ipsos.comCultural TransferabilityUSSouth AfricaBrazilIndiaChinaClimate of Climate ChangeEquality KaleidoscopeAll on the Same Page?Foreword4 – Ipsos | ESG Across Borders: The Cultural ContextDeveloping programmes, services, policies, and strategies that are fit for purpose and which will help an organisation or government body to operate more sustainably in the long term is no easy task. Each country has its own idiosyncrasies, grounded in history, context, language, and culture. Just because an approach works in one place does not mean it will be a success elsewhere.We took this as the ...
