Trialogue’s Sustainable Business Tracker is the leading benchmark of sustainability practice in South African business, providing evidence-based insight into how companies are embedding sustainability into strategy and operations. The Tracker responds to a growing disconnect between sustainability’s mainstream status and its inconsistent implementation, assessing business maturity across five pillars: strategy, governance, processes, targets and metrics, and reporting.
Trialogue Sustainable Business Tracker 2026
This inaugural edition of the Trialogue Sustainable Business Tracker introduces a new annual research publication that tracks how South African companies are responding to the growing sustainability imperative. Drawing on Trialogue’s Sustainable Business Self-Assessment Tool, it assesses the embeddedness of sustainability across five pillars: strategy, governance, processes, targets and metrics, and reporting. The Tracker unpacks why the integration of sustainability into business remains inconsistent, examines the gap between board-level intent and operational implementation and offers a holistic lens for leadership teams to focus their efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
Click below for a selection of articles from the 2026 Tracker and insights from the symposium:
- Article: Sustainable value creation: a governance imperative
- Keynote address: Simplifying integrated sustainability in business
Companies
- Panel discussion: Embedding sustainability in decision-making: Governance, materiality and trade-offs matter
- Dis-Chem Q&A: Embedding sustainability at Dis-Chem
- Exxaro Q&A: Embedding sustainability at Exxaro
- Growthpoint Q&A: Embedding sustainability at Growthpoint
- MTN Q&A: Embedding sustainability at MTN
- Woolworths Q&A: Embedding sustainability at Woolworths