Climate change has placed the challenge of sustainable economic growth at the very heart of the international agenda, and companies now increasingly find themselves in the spotlight as the size of the challenge becomes clear.

Podcast host and EY Global SAP Alliance Relationship Leader Steve Peck welcomes Steve Varley, EY Global Vice Chair – Sustainability, and Gunther Rothermel, Senior Vice President and Head of Sustainability for SAP S/4HANA at SAP. Together they discuss the ESG challenges facing multinationals and the urgent need to turn sustainability plans into action ahead of COP27.

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