What’s Next for Sustainability?
It’s been a challenging last few weeks and there is a lot of anxiety, outrage and doomerism permeating the climate space. It’s easy to be pulled into this narrative. Our recent conversations with our trusted partners and other climate trailblazers have made one thing clear: there is still a commitment to action. While we can expect “greenhushing” in the next few years, “green doing” is the new focus.
Here are the no-regret strategies we’ve been hearing about:
At GreenBiz25, the annual conference for sustainable business leaders, we saw a doubling-down on common sense proof points for action. Climate risk is business risk; and sustainability drives business value.
The science has not changed. Companies incorporating strategies in their plans today will be a leader in a climate-changing world. A pause in climate action would be like sweeping dust under the rug; this will only need to be cleaned up later.
Focus where you have influence, like encouraging your suppliers to enact sustainability strategies to help build resilient supply chains and business continuity.
Read the rest of what we know for certain about business and climate change in a new blog from our Managing Director, Elizabeth Sturcken. Plus, we detail recommendations on how companies should act on this information.
Climate Action in Times of Uncertainty
Climate innovation is corporate innovation. As climate change impacts business, companies must embrace innovation to adapt and future-proof their operations. This is good news, as progress can also help secure your competitive advantage. However, innovation goes beyond new technologies—most business value actually comes from incremental improvements that drive long-term impact.
No company can do it alone, though. Engaging with the climate innovation ecosystem accelerates success – and we can help get you started.
Our new guide shares a practical framework for medium-to-large enterprises to unlock corporate climate innovation by leveraging internal resources and external collaborations. Plus, see what corporate climate innovation looks like with real-world examples.
Need the quick takeaways? Read our accompanying explainer blog.
How to Embed Sustainability Across Your Company
Effectively communicating the importance of corporate climate action is critical to achieving your organization’s goals. We recently hosted a workshop with sustainability professionals on building internal alignment on climate considerations across other workstreams like finance, procurement, marketing and more.
What did we learn?
There are always opportunities to better strengthen the alignment between your climate strategies and the priorities of other business functions across the company. This will lead to a stronger climate strategy and more robust implementation. It’s important to assess those team’s KPIs and identify opportunities for aligning on shared goals or new processes that can lead to new effective operating models for integrating climate within the business.
To guide you through this process, we developed a new toolkit to help you identify new opportunities to embed climate across different teams. Use this toolkit to identify and prioritize the opportunities to engage with the functional areas in your company on climate.
That’s all for this month. See you next time!
Start Your Journey to Net Zero: Find a Pathway
How do you get buy-in to set a net zero goal? What happens after you’ve made a climate commitment? How do you start tackling emissions in your operations or supply chain? Follow our pathways to access actionable guidance on accelerating your company’s net zero journey.
