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 new research that tracks how 52 South African companies are responding to the growing sustainability imperative. Drawing on Trialogue’s Sustainable Business Self-Assessment Tool, it assesses how embedded sustainability is across five pillars: strategy, governance, systems and processes, targets and metrics, and communications and reporting. The Tracker unpacks why the integration of sustainability into business remains inconsistent and examines the gap between board-level intent and operational implementation.
The findings were presented at the Trialogue Sustainability Symposium on 28 August 2026, in partnership with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA) and the National Business Initiative (NBI).
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
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- 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