Sustainability Management, Confessions of a Sustainability Consultant
You can download our corporate sustainability white paper from the home page of this web site. In our view, there are five key steps for establishing a corporate sustainability program:
1. Setting the Vision
2. Staffing the Effort
3. Establishing Metrics to Measure Progress
4. Implementing Strategic Initiatives
5. Communicating the Results to All Stakeholders
Establishing metrics is one of the more difficult of the five steps. What to measure, how to benchmark and how to get the data are not at all obvious or easy. Nevertheless, there are well-established sustainability accounting tools for measuring reductions in greenhouse gases, energy use, solid waste & recycling, and water use. These tools help organizations establish environmental impact baselines. Reductions are determined by the extent to which impacts are reduced compared to the baseline measurement.
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