Margarida Couto has been president of GRACE - Empresas Responsáveis since 2018 and left these functions in April.
She spoke to RHmagazine about how companies look at sustainability and the role of HR in this process.

"Sustainability as a competitiveness factor " was the theme of the 1st GRACE Congress, held in 2023. Regarding the issue of sustainability, do you think that companies' views have changed in recent years? The 1st GRACE Congress showed that, first of all, everything is changing and the number of companies looking at these issues is growing. In addition, they are starting to understand that sustainability is a competitive factor. It has gone from being a "nice to have" to being a "must have". Currently, companies are already getting to the root of the word "sustainability". Being sustainable means being durable, being for a long time. And if companies lose competitiveness, they won't be around for long, they won't be part of the future. And the congress was the "prove" for these two movements.

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