73 percent of businesses kept their sustainability commitments through 2025's policy shifts

Despite major policy shifts in 2025, such as the United States pulling out of the Paris Agreement and the European Union curtailing its proposed sustainability legislation, about 73% of businesses have not changed their sustainability commitments, according to a new report from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “In Europe the pressure primarily comes more from regulation, but in the U.S. it comes more from investors, or from competitors.” - Josue Velazquez Martinez

The stability of commitments through a year of political reversal suggests that the drivers have moved from policy to markets. Investors, customers and competitors do not change direction with an election, and their expectations are embedded in procurement requirements and capital costs that persist regardless of the regulatory climate.

That is also why Carbon3 treats insetting as market infrastructure rather than as a compliance tool. A mechanism that depends on regulation is only as durable as the next vote. A mechanism that lets companies finance and evidence real reductions for their own commercial reasons keeps working through the policy cycle.