What’s New this Month:

Sustainability Summer School

We’ve brought back our Sustainability Summer School series to give you everything you need to make progress on your net zero goals this summer! Each month will feature a new solution deep dive, and we’re kicking it off with tactics on how to harness the collective power of internal stakeholders – executives, employees and teams – to advance progress on your climate goals. 🎯 It’s a sure way to turn sustainability ambition into action. 💪
 

Our First Lesson: Engage internal stakeholders on sustainability to embed climate strategy across workstreams. When people feel included in the solutions, they are more likely to take ownership and contribute to the company’s net zero plan. Engagement can look like: 

  1. Building the business case for sustainability is the first step to establishing company support. 📋 Climate action is smart business, with 77% of investors believing that environmentally responsible companies are more likely to succeed financially.
  2. Securing net zero buy-in with executives. 🔎 Insider Tip: For board management and executives, show how a climate transition plan can connect to broader business risk and help the business mitigate risk when possible.
  3. 💬 Defining clear accountability, policies and incentives will strengthen alignment on shared goals and KPIs to ensure effective operating models across teams. 
  4. Creating a green talent development plan to upskill employees appropriately. 🧗‍♂️

Learn more about this climate action pathway in six key steps:

Lesson Two: Align Financial Decision Making

Financial decisions can support your company’s sustainability objectives and advance net zero goals when crafted in alignment. What’s more, it can create resiliency in a climate-changing world.

Two steps internal teams can take right now that also help track workstream goals:

  1. Find the value of your emissions by setting an internal carbon price 🏷️. Learn how to harness internal carbon pricing to meet climate goals with industry experts in our recent webinar, available to watch here
  2. Building a net zero investment strategy starts with knowing your company’s emissions — and how to reduce them. Developing a net zero investment strategy can chart your path forward. 💸

Consider further strategies and what enacting these steps can look like:

Further Resources: The new Climate Label certification for funding climate goals from Change Climate Project

Lesson Three: Unlocking Corporate Climate Innovation

Innovation goes beyond new technologies — most business value actually comes from incremental improvements that drive long-term impact. This guide provides a practical framework for sustainability, innovation and strategy professionals to unlock corporate climate innovation through internal resources and external collaborations.

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That’s all for this month. See you next time!

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