One of the inherent weaknesses of how the sustainability paradigm or the erstwhile ESG variant, now politically retired in the DJT era has been the carbon tunnel overemphasis on indicators and frameworks rather than solutions. Depoliticising ESG did not work as it entailed a particular worldview.
Mining communities left behind in the rust belts in North America and Australia, or in Indonesia caught in the cross hair of transition politics, would have rebelled. ESG meant risk to companies, but the biggest black swan event was missed- the geopolitics or the politics of pen risk is hardly mapped in KPIs.
With AI, traditional consulting is under threat, though deep expertise which solves problems and creates value. Reporting is compliance and impact does more than that, it creates more fundamental ripples.
For my consulting peers, lets get back to research basics- AI is already creating level one reports.
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