WHY CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY?
A new trend is emerging in the corporate world: businesses that commit to resource efficiency and employee development are fast becoming Corporate Sustainability Leaders. They see sustainability as an opportunity rather than a liability. The benefits are many: stronger reputation, increased revenues and market share, reduced risk and expenses, easier financing, higher productivity and deeper levels of engagement from employees, and easier hiring and retaining of the top talent. ELIA can provide you with a step by step planning process, training, and reporting services to assist your company in becoming a Corporate Sustainability Leader. For more information about Corporate Governance for Sustainability download this article here.
ELIA BUSINESS STRATEGIES FOR ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY
1. Assessment and formulation of Strategic Action Plan
2. Training in Corporate Sustainability Leadership
3. Corporate Sustainability Reporting
1. ASSESSMENT AND STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN
Our team has been trained in working with the FSSD-Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development, which facilitates the transition of businesses towards sustainability. We use this framework as part of our assessment & strategic action-plan methodology: a combination of Systems Thinking, Back-Casting and Prioritisation. Completing this process results in the creation of a Strategic Action Plan, and will give you the experience necessary to repeat it on your own and further enhance your sustainability and business performance. As part of our service we will also recommend to you which training modules can upscale your understanding and practical skill-set for corporate sustainability.
2. TRAINING IN CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP
These innovative trainings will include: Sustainability Principles, Systems Thinking for Corporate Sustainability and co-creating a Shared Vision for Sustainability, ultimately developing Organisational Culture for Sustainability: the Learning Organisation. We are upgrading our trainings at the moment. For more information about our Corporate Sustainability trainings visit this page again beginning of 2012.
3. CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING & CARBON ACCOUNTING
Sustainability Reporting – ELIA writes sustainability reports for companies based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The GRI is a voluntary reporting framework, and it is the most credible and transparent reporting framework available worldwide today. The Sustainability Report is typically combined with the traditional Annual Report, and the GRI framework allows all aspects of Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility activities to be covered. We also work with companies to develop multi-annual strategy options and operational plans to enhance their sustainability practices.
Carbon Accounting – ELIA has developed a carbon accounting tool that has been tailored for Mauritius. The tool employs international benchmarked methodologies of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and, where applicable, emission factors of the IPCC. It is also compatible with ISO14064 for carbon reporting. The tool can be used for: (1) corporate sustainability reporting; (2) developing carbon projects; (3) carbon labeling of products and services; and (4) as a pedagogical tool to understand the impacts that human activities has in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.