Chief Sustainability Officer and Co: Sustainability as a management job
Something to do with the environment – that is the answer given by quite a few young people when asked what they want to do later in life. And this topic can now also be put into practice at management level. A lot has happened since the first known appointment of Linda Fisher as Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at the chemical company Dupont in 2004. More than a third of German companies have introduced such a position at the upper management level.
These are the results of a study for which PwC Germany surveyed 1,640 companies in 62 countries at the beginning of the year. Around 30 percent of companies worldwide have filled the position of CSO. A further 49 percent have a “CSO light”, i.e. a position that is located below the two upper management levels or is only responsible for some of the topics, such as corporate social responsibility. Only one in five companies currently has no CSO function at all…
