Going ‘Beyond Draghi’: Introducing Competitive Sustainability

It was a pleasure working this year with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) on their 2024 Competitive Sustainability Index (CSI). Yesterday in Brussels, the CISL launched this 2nd edition of the CSI, which is particularly relevant at this moment in the green transition because:

1) Competitiveness is central to the EU agenda, and while the recent Draghi report stressed the urgency to decarbonize, tools like the CSI are needed to move discussion ‘Beyond Draghi‘ to an integrated approach to competitive sustainability;

2) Companies in Europe increasingly seek sustainable business growth, and the CSI’s novel economic ecosystem analysis of the European energy, industry, mobility, buildings, land use & agrifood, and digital sectors magnifies the opportunities and challenges in the areas decisive to the net-zero transition;

3) Sustainability leaders everywhere seek new narratives and evidence-based tools to accelerate progress, most notably in the US after the Trump re-election. The CSI’s 81-indicator framework, statistical robustness, and increasingly global coverage provides one such reference point.

Explore the full EU-27 data results & more insights from this 2nd edition of the CSI here.