While the pandemic significantly accelerated change, it was hardly the only trend, and in fact, several underlying trends were already in motion. Sustainability efforts are sustainable only if leaders take the science-based approach and intertwine them with the operating model, culture, and bottom line. Below mentioned are the six megatrends affecting sustainability.

Financial & Governance:

From counting coins to constraining carbon finance takes a holistic approach, analyzing environment, social, governance and traditional finance performance in a unified view. Auditing and portfolio management have expanded to include sustainability in risk management and credit ratings. Participatory planning, public private partnership, financial innovation, revenue generation, entrepreneurship and job creation, competitiveness, service delivery efficiency, transparency, audit, modern public management, fiscal and administrative autonomy, maximization of tax base, fundraising, management by results, quality of public spending, debt management, contingent liabilities are also the indicators for consideration.