The sustainability regulatory landscape is rapidly evolving. Companies will need to develop or expand their compliance efforts in response to sustainability legislation. This should involve re-assessing their governance system to ensure this supports their sustainability priorities and provides effective oversight of risk management and decision-making. 

Navigating new sustainability legislation is challenging but companies have existing expertise and processes they can leverage, including as part of their approach to anti-corruption and integrity. Designing, developing and implementing a new or updated sustainability programme is an opportunity to coordinate anti-corruption and sustainability measures, which are interconnected areas of company practice.

This guide provides practical insights to help companies respond to evolving sustainability legislation by (1) setting up a system of oversight and management for priority sustainability topics (ESG governance) grounded on principles of accountability, integrity and transparency and (2) leveraging ethics & compliance, legal and sustainability expertise and processes to coordinate and strengthen corruption and sustainability risk management. It is informed by findings from interviews with over 45 ethics & compliance, legal, financial crime, risk and sustainability practitioners.

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