Corporate efforts to address environmental and climate impacts using executive incentives are the focus of 2025 Global Trends in Stakeholder Incentives: Climate Strategies and Incentives for Corporate Sustainability.
As the first multi-national group to collate and analyze executive ESG incentives globally, the GECN Group is uniquely positioned to assess ESG-based incentive trends. We have witnessed how these measures have evolved to reflect greater rigor and specificity. As climate action has become a global priority, we ask: What specific choices are large companies making on environmental incentive measures and goals? How do size, industry, and geography affect decision-making?
This report details environmental incentive trends across regions and industries, and provides timely insights and data useful for corporate decision-makers to align their environmental strategies with executive compensation.
Study Methodology
Globally, this research covers large companies in Australia, Canada, Europe, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and the US. The GECN Group analyzed data on
environmental incentives from the 2024 public disclosures of all 500+ companies listed in the following stock indexes: