Global Policy Outlook Series: ESG & Corporate Responsibility Outlook, H2 2024

Morning Consult’s Global Policy Outlook series provides monthly analysis of global sentiment on key issues at the intersection of politics and economics across 18 of the world’s largest markets, along with our six-month forecast of where policymaking is headed. This edition assesses global public sentiment surrounding ESG and corporate responsibility (CR).

While prevailing narratives suggest that global public enthusiasm for ESG and CR is on the downswing, our data continues to indicate that majorities in major global markets remain in favor of key ESG/CR tenets. Regional trends — specifically in Asia and Europe — nevertheless reveal cracks at the margins on many of the issues we examine, led by shifting sentiment in Australia and the United Kingdom, among other markets.

Key issues covered in this context include:

• Global trends in public views of carbon emissions reductions efforts, green growth tradeoffs, and efforts to enhance gender and racial diversity in corporate management
• Region-specific breakouts of trends in sentiment on the above issues (new to this edition)
• Market-specific analysis of risks and opportunities

Corporate decision-makers, risk management and financial services professionals, and public sector entities rely on this report series to understand how public sentiment is trending across critical policy areas and make business, investment and public sector decisions accordingly.