Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) are no longer an oddity on the C-suite roster. In 2004, the first CSO was appointed to a publicly-traded U.S. company.i In 2010, a study of 650 companies found that 42 percent had a CSO or other senior executive with a similar title, such as Corporate Responsibility Officer, Director of Citizenship, Chief Responsibility Officer, Vice President of Sustainability, Director of Sustainability, etc.ii We can be certain that CSOs have swelled the C-suite ranks even more by 2012, but the jungle of nomenclature is indicative that the role, responsibilities, and reporting construct of the CSO are still evolving.
At AccountAbility, we find that senior executives and board members often raise the following questions about this emerging role:
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