Sustainability and climate change

Sustainability is both a social responsibility and a growth opportunity. It’s a way to improve efficiencies, build resilience, find new sources of revenue, strengthen employee engagement, enhance reputation, and more.

Being too slow to react will cost more later than changing the way you operate now. The challenge for businesses is multi-dimensional and requires sustainability to be integrated into the core operations and decision-making processes of the organisation.

We'll help you meet your sustainability requirements and climate commitments in a way that also delivers growth. From net zero transformation to business strategies that balance commerciality with sustainability, we’ll work together to make data-driven decisions and take bold actions to implement positive change you can prove. And we’ll also ensure you adopt the right tools and technologies needed to adapt to climate change challenges.

Find out how we can help you turn ambition into action.

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Moving from ambition to action

We are at a pivotal time. The imperative to achieve net zero goes beyond responsibility. With the right business strategy, it is an economic opportunity to drive growth alongside positive change. While the challenge of sustainability feels vast, the answer is progress, not perfection.

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Making real progress towards net zero and unlocking economic value requires businesses to transform the way they operate. This is a complex challenge, that needs an intelligent, nuanced and tailored approach - there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

Our specialists with diverse expertise across industry can help you set the path to net zero through a powerful coupling of human ingenuity, passion and experience with technology, insights and data.

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Technology is a critical enabler for organisations navigating sustainability reporting requirements and achieving their net zero targets. With the pace of change increasing and the complexities vast, embedding a human-led, tech-powered approach to sustainability has never been more crucial.

We take a holistic approach to ESG technology, helping you to navigate reporting requirements and achieve sustainability targets, whether you're using existing tech or building new solutions.

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Our industry experts work with your people to build business strategies that balance commerciality with sustainability.

By navigating risks from biodiversity loss and creating and implementing nature-positive strategies, organisations can harness new opportunities that lead to sustainable outcomes.

When nature thrives, business can thrive too.

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Sustainability in action

Learn more about the organisations we are working with, as well as our own commitment to sustainability and how we are supporting sustainability leaders across a variety of sectors.

ScottishPower

From digitisation to decarbonisation - find out how ScottishPower is creating change that will help transform its business and the wider UK economy.

Baker Hughes

Transformation empowers Baker Hughes to take lead in ‘post-carbon’. With its bold vision and rapid transformation, Baker Hughes improved efficiency, saved costs and unlocked growth.

Sustainability strategy

At PwC, our corporate sustainability strategy is designed to play our part in addressing the climate and nature crisis and help us reimagine a sustainable future.

CSO Hub

The position of a sustainability leader in any organisation is invariably challenging. Explore our expert insights to move you from ambition to action.

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April 2025

Net Zero Future50

With over half of the UK’s decarbonisation dependent on technologies that are not yet commercially mature, this report showcases the monumental potential of the UK’s climate tech ecosystem.

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March 2025

Investors back bold moves as businesses face pressure to reinvent

Investors back bold moves as businesses face pressure to reinvent, scale emerging technology, upskill their workforce and manage climate risk. Explore the findings of our UK Investor Survey.

January 2025

Five trends shaping the sustainability agenda in 2025, and the actions you can take now

From climate and nature, to reporting and ESG tech, we look at five key sustainability trends and how they can be a driver for innovation, growth and value.

January 2025

Climate Analytics

PwC expert team, bringing together climate science, financial risk modelling and data analytics, provides our clients with an efficient approach to identify climate risk and opportunity hotspots. Our Sustainability Climate Analytics tools allow risks and opportunities to be assessed across the value chain and / or portfolio, in the short-, medium- and long-term, based on the latest climate scenarios.

January 2025

Three ways to prepare now for effective CSRD workforce reporting

Many larger UK organisations are preparing for the CSRD but workforce data is often being overlooked. What steps should organisations take to make progress on workforce reporting?