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.
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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
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- Identify Stakeholders
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- Set Goals
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- Establish Objectives & Metrics
- Objectives: Agriculture
- Objectives: Forests
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- Objectives: Waste
- Identify Pilot Projects
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- Make Business Case
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- Build a Business Plan 101
- Business/environmental alignment
- Drivers of change
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- Activate stakeholders
- Identify data
- Intro and overview 101
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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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At virtually every step of the process, you’ll be “selling” your sustainable plan to different stakeholders. You will no doubt encounter specific moments that may require a structured pitch or presentation.
02/24/2019
Guide
EDF has created a four-part framework grounded in sound science and 25+ years of partnering with business. This is how you raise the bar on corporate leadership.
02/24/2019
Article
One of the first steps to making your agricultural supply chain more sustainable is mapping it out, starting with inputs.
02/24/2019
Guide
Depending on the organizational structure of your company and the structure of your supply chains, there may be many stakeholders that you’ll need to communicate with about sustainable agriculture.
02/24/2019
Guide
If your company is new to the concept of sustainable agriculture, there are many resources to help you set meaningful goals for your agricultural supply chains.
02/24/2019
Guide
Before committing to a huge project on sustainable agriculture, you’ll want to try out a few pilot projects to ensure that your hypotheses are correct about key stakeholders and levers in your supply chain.
02/24/2019
Guide
These resources will help you in crafting your business case for engaging in sustainable agriculture. Remember, all parts of the chain will need to result in benefits – either financial or social – from participating in these solutions.
02/24/2019
Guide
One of the first steps of managing deforestation in corporate supply chains is getting a sense of where it is likely occurring.
02/24/2019
Guide
If your company is new to reducing deforestation, there are many resources to help set an ambitious, scientific goal aligned with your core business.
02/24/2019
Guide
Jurisdictional Approaches enable companies to collaborate with local governments and other stakeholders to increase productivity and reduce deforestation over an entire region, not just in a single supply chain.
02/24/2019
Guide
Understand the tools and resources that others are currently using to engage their supply chains on deforestation.
02/24/2019
Guide
Identifying opportunities to save money and reduce energy-related GHG emissions requires gaining a detailed understanding of your company’s energy demand and supply. Learn how.
02/24/2019
Guide
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