1、The Visionary CEOs Guide to Sustainability 2025The Power of PragmatismCopyright 2025 Bain&Company,Inc.All rights reserved.AcknowledgmentsFor their contributions to this report,the leadership team of Bain&Companys Global Sustainability&Responsibility practice would like to thank the following people:

2、Ginevra Bersani,Sasha Boldyrev,Jan Budde,Nanette Byrnes,Simone Canu,Sonal Chawla,Jamie Cleghorn,Prashant Das,Jeff Derks,Simone Doms,Grant Dougans,Katherine Duceman,Gail Edmondson,Giulia Gallo,Sheena Garg,Helen Gasche,S Sidharth Ghosh,Keshav Goyal,Christian Graf,Chris Griffith,Tanya Grover,Aayush Gup

3、ta,Mridul Gupta,Netra Hirani,Sarthak Jain,Abhishek Jhanwar,Krystle Jiang,Paul Judge,Mehakpreet Kaur,Onur Kayahan,Martin Kessler,Sune Kok,Ann Lee,Emily Leinbach,Pranav Malhotra,Joel Mann,Mukul Mathur,Ayushi Maurya,Kornelia Mazurczyk-Wolska,Samridhi Mehra,Peter Meijer,Amanda Michel,Anka Minhas,Martha

4、Moreau,Mgane Muehlestein,Stuti Nagrath,Preeti P,Tracy Parker,Tanja Pick,Andrew Pontti,Aditya Rai,Nina Ramsamy,Anushri Ranganathan,Lisa Schold,Rajat Pratap Singh,Karan Singh,Harsh Srivastava,Tiiram Sunderland,Himadri Suri,Joe Tan,Awele Uwagwu,Prasanth Vasan,Anirudh Verma,Paul Vignaud,Shashank Yadav,a

5、nd the Editorial team.“Decarbonization That Works:Five Key Actions in Private Equity”was written in collaboration with CDP.1The Visionary CEOs Guide to Sustainability 2025ContentsThe Power of Pragmatism .22025 Trends .3Embracing the“Do-Say”Gap .4Whats Still Stopping Consumers from Living Sustainably

6、?.11How Sustainability Is Creating B2B Growth .18Getting It Done .26AI and Sustainability:Shaping Whats Next .27The CEO Playbook for Climate Resilience .35Decarbonization That Works:Five Key Actions in Private Equity .41Transitions.48Why Leaders Must Focus on Carbon Removal Markets Now .49Circular B