From Ambition to Accountability: Linking executive pay to green targets

This white paper can help you to understand recent trends in the integration of environmental metrics into executive compensation. It explains how the adoption of environmental metrics for executive compensation have progressed over the past decade; focus areas for performance; and incentive reward types. It also identifies persistent challenges that may hinder the effectiveness of aligning executive pay with environmental outcomes, such as minimal weighting, short-termism, and executives modifying metrics for personal gain. This paper will be most beneficial to boards and compensation committees.