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Chief Sustainability Officers
Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers, and employees to address sustainability issues. Enact or oversee a corporate sustainability strategy.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of sustainability programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Develop or execute strategies to address issues such as energy use, resource conservation, recycling, pollution reduction, waste elimination, transportation, education, and building design.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Develop, or oversee the development of, sustainability evaluation or monitoring systems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Supervise employees or volunteers working on sustainability projects.Mostly human for now
- 05Develop sustainability reports, presentations, or proposals for supplier, employee, academia, media, government, public interest, or other groups.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Develop, or oversee the development of, marketing or outreach media for sustainability projects or events.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Identify and evaluate pilot projects or programs to enhance the sustainability research agenda.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Create and maintain sustainability program documents, such as schedules and budgets.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Formulate or implement sustainability campaign or marketing strategies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Research environmental sustainability issues, concerns, or stakeholder interests.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss3%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
56%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 53% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Supervise employees or volunteers working on sustainability projects.