The Sustainability Journey
Corporate sustainability leadership: the journey
Successful business leaders understand that a thriving economy depends on a thriving environment, and vice versa. Your customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and potential investors are well aware that the myth of an “either/or” tradeoff between sustainability and profitability no longer exists. Now, more than ever, the world is your business.
Yet, while the need for corporate sustainability has long been proven, following a clear pathway to leadership — where your company’s business and sustainability goals are in alignment — can be challenging.
The Supply Chain Solutions Center roadmap to leadership can help you navigate that path.
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Sustainability 101
Sustainability needs to be weaved into your business, not bolted down. These resources will help you learn how to start the sustainability journey for your company.
View All Sustainability 101 ResourcesLevel 1: Engage
The genesis of your company’s commitment to corporate sustainability, this stage is about getting informed on the issues, understanding the landscape (both internally and externally), assessing your areas of opportunity and influence, and discovering where you need help (and how you can get it).
View All Level 1: Engage ResourcesLevel 2: Execute
This stage is about advancing and innovating across your company’s landscape — from your own operations to your suppliers'. It’s a multi-faceted process that ranges from building sustainability plans and proving the business case to implementing, measuring, reporting, scaling and beginning to take a public stand on issues and policies.
View All Level 2: Execute ResourcesLevel 3: Lead
Leading on corporate sustainability means bringing your company’s business and environmental goals into seamless, transparent alignment. You’re accelerating environmental innovation, actively advocating for smart environmental policies, and advancing sustainable business practices to alter the landscape across entire industries and business sectors.
View All Level 3: Lead ResourcesThe Sustainability Journey Events
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- Sustainability 101
- Intro and overview 101
- Overview: Agriculture 101
- Introduction
- Get Informed
- Understand the Landscape
- Overview: Forests 101
- Introduction
- Get Informed
- Understand the Landscape
- Overview: Chemicals 101
- Introduction
- Get Informed
- Identify Key Stakeholders
- Overview: Energy 101
- Introduction
- Get Informed
- Understand the Landscape
- Overview: Freight 101
- Introduction
- Get Informed
- Understand the Landscape
- Overview: Waste 101
- Food Waste 101
- Introduction
- Get Informed
- Understand the Landscape
- Packaging Waste 101
- Introduction
- Get Informed
- Understand the Landscape
- Food Waste 101
- Overview: Agriculture 101
- Build a Sustainability Plan 101
- Introduction
- Assess Impact & Opportunity
- Impact: Agriculture
- Impact: Forests
- Impact: Chemicals
- Impact: Energy
- Impact: Freight
- Impact: Waste
- Identify Stakeholders
- Stakeholders: Agriculture
- Stakeholders: Forests
- Stakeholders: Chemicals
- Stakeholders: Energy
- Stakeholders: Freight
- Stakeholders: Waste
- Set Goals
- Goals: Agriculture
- Goals: Forests
- Goals: Chemicals
- Goals: Energy
- Goals: Freight
- Goals: Waste
- Establish Objectives & Metrics
- Objectives: Agriculture
- Objectives: Forests
- Objectives: Chemicals
- Objectives: Energy
- Objectives: Freight
- Objectives: Waste
- Identify Pilot Projects
- Pilot Projects: Agriculture
- Pilot Projects: Forests
- Pilot Projects: Chemicals
- Pilot Projects: Energy
- Pilot Projects: Freight
- Pilot Projects: Waste
- Make Business Case
- Business Case: Agriculture
- Business Case: Forests
- Business Case: Chemicals
- Business Case: Energy
- Business Case: Freight
- Business Case: Waste
- Pitch & Launch Plan
- Pitch & Launch: Agriculture
- Pitch & Launch: Forests
- Pitch & Launch: Chemicals
- Pitch & Launch: Energy
- Pitch & Launch: Freight
- Pitch & Launch: Waste
- Build a Business Plan 101
- Business/environmental alignment
- Drivers of change
- Stakeholder motivation
- Activate stakeholders
- Identify data
- Intro and overview 101
- Level 1: Engage
- Engage: Agriculture
- Engage: Forests
- Engage: Chemicals
- Engage: Energy
- Engage: Freight
- Engage: Waste
- Level 2: Execute
- Level 3: Lead
- Advocate
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- Zero Waste
- Collaborate
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- Safer Chemicals
- Sustainable Agriculture
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- Thriving Forests
- Zero Waste
- Commit
- Green Freight
- Safer Chemicals
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainable Energy
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The Sustainability Journey Resources
Filter by our "Sustainability 101" categories for a concise, high-level overview of Agriculture, Forests, Chemicals, Energy, Freight or Waste. You can also view all of the Engage (Level 1), Execute (Level 2) and Lead (Level 3) resources by filtering for interest areas that are relevant to your company.
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Guidance on engaging with suppliers to collect GHG data when developing scope 3 GHG inventories and product GHG inventories.
01/17/2019
Tool
A description of scope 3 emissions, as well as resources on scope 3, such as available emission factors.
01/17/2019
Article
Tyson Foods – the largest food company in the U.S. – showcased just such leadership today by announcing a new initiative.
01/15/2019
Blog
This Conservation International and World Wildlife Fund-produced document is a practical handbook for US consumer goods and retail companies to understand the issues associated with palm production and opportunities for action.
01/11/2019
Handbook
WWF has teams of experts working in over 100 countries to protect the natural resources that sustain and inspire us: our forests, rivers, ocean, climate, food and wildlife. WWF harnesses the collective power of supporters around the world, communities, companies and governments to create real solutions for people and the planet.
01/03/2019
Initiative
ISO 14064-1:2018 specifies principles and requirements for the quantification and reporting of GHG emissions and removals.
12/01/2018
Tool
EDF and colleagues at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies set out to map where deforestation reduction initiatives are underway.
10/30/2018
Blog
The SDG Compass provides guidance for companies on how they can align their strategies as well as measure and manage their contribution to the realization of the SDGs.
09/16/2018
Initiative
An interview with EDF+Business' Tom Murray and Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain and Sustainability Officer, Francesca DeBiase of McDonald’s about how McDonald's has raised the corporate leadership bar with ambitious sustainability targets.
09/14/2018
Blog
Report with case studies of grain farmers who have adopted conservation practices. Describes the financial value generated by conservation adoption.
09/01/2018
Report
Next year, food and agriculture companies, I want to see more of you on Fortune’s list. So to help you on this quest, I’m officially issuing you a two-part challenge:
08/30/2018
Blog
The Sustainable Food Policy Alliance seeks to accelerate the pace of change in the food industry.
07/12/2018
Initiative
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