The proportion of Canadian business leaders who say they are worried about climate change jumped dramatically in 2024.

In a newly released report by Deloitte, 85 per cent of the 129 Canadian executives surveyed between May and June of this year said they “worry all or most of the time” about climate change.

That’s a sharp increase from the 59 per cent who said they worried all or most of the time in 2023.

“What showed up in the survey was the sense that executives had been personally impacted by a number of areas that are climate-related,” said Daniel Rowe, managing partner for sustainability at Deloitte.

“As executives are experiencing more directly those impacts in their lives, I think that translates perhaps to it being more front-of-mind for them.”