Kantar Polska, on behalf of BASF Polska, surveyed how sustainability ranks on the agendas of Polish business and how companies are doing in preparing to implement ESG principles.
'The guiding objective of our survey of 150 industrial, mainly manufacturing, companies was to make the issue more real. Because sustainability is being talked about by more and more people, we wanted to verify what business practice looks like,' said Katarzyna Zalewska, Head of Sustainability Expertise at Kantar.
The report shows that the optics of companies are very different; the size of the company influences the beliefs of its management about the business dimension of sustainability and ESG. ‘This topic arouses a lot of emotion, it is not always a positive sentiment towards this issue, but there is always a discernible position, an opinion,' said Zalewska.
What do companies think about ESG?
'Many sustainability-related activities and strategies, like many Green Deal provisions and assumptions, are currently under tremendous pressure due to the energy and geopolitical crises. And this is felt in many of the responses from participants in our joint report,' said Katarzyna Jedynak, Head of Sales Industrial Chemicals, BASF Poland. However, what is positive, in her opinion, is that there is no departure from the assumptions of a sustainable future in declarations and actions.
