Effective Governance Sustainability Services

Reduce your environmental impact and improve your organisational performance

The key purpose of Corporate Sustainability is to extend the productive life of organisations and maintain corporate performance in light of the growing external pressures they may face. Of these pressures, the number one emerging governance issue facing Australian organisations today is that of climate change and the expected response required from organisations.

Organisations are now compelled to move governance considerations around risk management, compliance and strategic initiatives to improve their social and environmental impacts from discretionary to essential.

Sustainability is not a product but rather an outcome; it is a goal or a strategy your organisation wishes to achieve. Effective Governance, in association with our strategic partners, has developed a comprehensive framework for organisations to meet their governance, social, economic and environmental requirements.  The Effective Governance Six Phase Sustainability Process involves:

Phase 1 - Justify - Building the business case for sustainability
Phase 2 - Analyse - Analysing the current footprint
Phase 3 - Strategise - Strategy Formulation for sustainability
Phase 4 - Monitor - Monitoring and Reporting Frameworks
Phase 5 - Maintain - Establishing a Sustainability Management Program
Phase 6 - Communicate - Sustainability Communications Suite

For a fact sheet on corporate sustainability download here

Strategy Formulation for Sustainability

To be truly sustainable, an organisation must have integrated sustainability initiatives.  To help you achieve this integration, we work closely with your sustainability team to analyse the raw data collected in the current footprint phase, analyse and develop strategies to reduce your current emissions, meet stakeholder expectations and develop an internal capability required to implement and maintain your strategic initiatives.

To assist our clients in framing their initiatives we facilitate the creation of a Sustainability Scorecard to capture your strategies against the four perspectives of Social, Environmental, Economic and Governance. This enables your organisation's sustainability strategy to be documented succinctly and forms part of the implementation process to enable your strategy's success.

We can also work with your organisation to measure its success against the Global Reporting Initiative measurement framework, which allows you to benchmark your performance against 30,000 other organisations around the globe in relation to your sustainability achievements.

For more information on how Effective Governance can help you with sustainability contact us.