The Relationship Between Corporate Sustainability Investments and Corporate Performance

Abstract

This paper describes how sustainable investment and business performance are closely related to the growing public and government interest in sustainable development in a deteriorating ecological environment. Therefore, in various studies, including data on ESG inputs, sustainable investment is related to corporate performance in many ways, such as geographic location, time, goodwill, and financial performance. Therefore, sustainable investment is a double-edged sword for business performance. On the one hand, this paper describes the importance of sustainable investment and the positive attitudes of companies towards it, such as the implementation of a series of initiatives willing to train relevant personnel, investment in technology, purchase of environmental protection equipment, and so on, and also describes the positive attitudes of the government and the public towards the sustainable investment of companies. On the other hand, companies also face many challenges, such as high short-term costs for shareholders, a significant reduction in profits and corporate dependence and other disadvantages.