Beyond Compliance: Four levels of Sustainability Engagement

Beyond Compliance:Four Levels of Engagement with Sustainability

By EnergyCAP, Inc.

©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ #energyleader ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com

Humans aspire to greatness.

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In 1971, French high-wire artist PhilippePetit walked between the towers ofThe Notre Dame Cathedral.

But then he saw plans for the World Trader Center and had a vision for what he wanted to do.

Source: http://fillipshow.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

We are driven by our visions.

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But we must begin somewhere.And we must know where we are going.

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Vision

First steps = final steps

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The problem: In sustainability, first steps become final steps.

So we take rudimentary steps and call them final steps.

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And our businesses are missing out on a

generational opportunity for innovation.

But our world needs us to take greater steps than we are taking.

"Approximately 60%of the ecosystemservices evaluated(15 out of 24 ecosystems) are being degraded or used unsustainably."

-Millenium Ecosystem Assessment

Population

Ecosystem Health

Source: http://www.art-days.com/sebastiao-salgado-genesis-landscapes/

Source: MIT Sloan surveyed 5,300 executives and managersin 118 countries.

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PlanningProcess

Today’s webinar presents the “RISE” framework

from Step 2:Assess Current State

Roadmap for Innovative Sustainability Engagement (RISE)

RISE Through Key Business Functions

Today’s webinar will show changes to these functionsthru the RISE framework.

Roadmap for Innovative Sustainability Engagement (RISE)

Stage 1: Complying

"We are following all appropriate laws."

Decision-making and investments related to environmental and social aspects of doing business are in accordance with local, state and federal laws, standards.

Stage 1: Complying

Rising Up from Stage 1Find out who is interested and has appropriate skills and knowledge

Create a team or task force to coordinate targeted pilot projects to go "beyond compliance"

Assess impacts to identify opportunities to go beyond compliance

Develop an understanding of what sustainability means strategically to your organization and industry

Stage 2: Prototyping

"Taking the environment and human health into consideration helps us save money and reduce risk."

Decision-making and investments related to environmental and social aspects of doing business go beyond what is required and are focused on short term payback.

Stage 2: Prototyping

Source: http://www.nhl.com/green/report/#environmentalImpact

Source: http://www.nhl.com/green/report/#environmentalImpact

Rising Up from Stage 2

Review existing and past initiatives to gather data, calculate returns, identify barriers and bright spots

Form a team to look at sustainability more strategically

Establish a preliminary vision and business case for pursuing sustainability

Set goals and preliminary metrics (leading and lagging metrics)

Stage 3: Integrating

"Taking the environment and human health into consideration is the right thing to do and creates long term value.“

Decision-making and investments related to environmental and social aspects of doing business are built around a unifying strategy and incorporated into every organizational function.

Stage 3: Integrating

Source: http://johnhendrix.blogspot.com/2012/01/walmart-in-china.html

Walmart's Sustainability Goals"Environmental sustainability has become an essential ingredient to doing business responsibly and successfully. At Walmart we have already made great progress in achieving our sustainability goals. However, we still have a way to go and we need your help to get there. As the world's largest retailer, our actions have the potential to save our customers money and help ensure a better world for generations to come.

Sr Vice President for Sustainability

Our three aspirational sustainability goals are:

To be supplied 100% by renewable energy

To create zero waste

To sell products that sustain people and the environment"

Rising Up from Stage 3

Gather input from customers and other external key stakeholders

Embed sustainability into planning, budgeting and performance management and compensation

Ensure all members achieve an understanding of sustainability and the skills, knowledge and tools they need to apply it to their work

Stage 4: Transforming

"Taking the environment and human health into consideration makes us a leader in our industry and a critical partner in the creation of a sustainable society.“

Decision-making and investments related to environmental and social aspects of doing business have transformed our business model and our industry.

Stage 4: Transforming

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Source: http://www.interfacecutthefluff.com/are-you-experiencing-sustainability-at-work/

Source: http://inhabitat.com/interview-ray-anderson-on-climbing-the-mountain-of-corporate-sustainability/

Roadmap for Innovative Sustainability Engagement (RISE)

Project Management

Change Management

So what’s your vision for sustainability?

Source: http://fillipshow.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

When he was 17, Philippe Petit had a vision to walk between the World Trade Center Towers.

Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center

So he planned.

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/08/philippe-petit-s-moment-of-concern-walking-the-wtc-tightrope.html

And then he didit through a vision and a plan.

Rise Up

1. Understand where you really are (confidence is overrated)

2. Plan with precision (prepare to be wrong)

Go Beyond Compliance

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©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ #energyleader ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com

Erik FoleyFounder & PrincipalDais Consulting Group, affiliate of EnergyCAP, Inc.ErikBFoley@gmail.com814.762.9208

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