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Strategic Intelligence: ESG Sentiment Polls Q4 2025

Publisher GlobalData
Published Jan 19, 2026
Length 21 Pages
SKU # GBDT20831020

Description

Strategic Intelligence: ESG Sentiment Polls Q4 2025

Summary

This report is based on polls designed to help us understand the current sentiment of the business community toward ESG (environmental, social, and governance) themes.

Key Highlights
  • In Q4 2025, awareness of corporate ESG policies grew. 44% of respondents said their company had an ESG strategy, compared with 38% in Q3 2025.
  • The share of respondents who view ESG as mere marketing began to tail off in Q4 2025, falling from 45% in Q3 2025 to 39% in Q4. 13% of respondents believed that most businesses are fully committed to ESG.
Scope
  • Our sentiment polls ran between April and June 2025 on GlobalData's Verdict network of B2B websites, which had 12.9 million user sessions in Q4 2025. In total, 1,497 respondents participated in the survey.
  • The survey looked at attitudes towards ESG, the most important theme impacting businesses over the next decade.
Reasons to Buy
  • This survey gives a unique insight into the views of the business community on ESG. The responses provide insight into attitudes towards ESG, including whether companies have an ESG strategy.

Table of Contents

21 Pages
About our ESG sentiment polls
Executive summary
ESG strategy
Commitment to ESG
Most important themes
Factors driving performance plan creation
Sentiment polling methodology
Thematic research methodology
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