Friday, December 28, 2007

A business case for corporate sustainbility



The sustainability forum, part of the Corporate Executive Board [EXBD] has recently posted a PowerPoint presentation that provides a case study for sustainability.

The jury is still out when it comes to finding the silver bullet, but the presentation shows some tangible results from early movers. This presentation is divided into two broad sections


Planning and Structuring

  1. Painting the urgency and need for sustainable practices
  2. Structuring for sustainability
  3. Returns on sustainable investment

Tactical Deployment
  1. Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
  2. Managing energy
  3. Procurement
  4. Product Development
It's definitely worth checking out. There are a couple key slides:

Perform a introspective sustainability risk assessment


Start with low-hanging fruit like energy efficiency:

1 comments:

Ron Robins said...

For anyone interested, I have been following sustainable and socially responsible investing for about forty years and have a website that covers the latest relevant global news at www.investingforthesoul.com

Best wishes, Ron Robins