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Sustainable Business: Strategies for Implementation (Collection)
- By Peter A. Soyka, Kevin Wilhelm, Brian Clegg
- Published Jul 7, 2014 by FT Press.
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- Copyright 2015
- Edition: 1st
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-13-348071-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-348071-9
A new collection of realistic, proven best practices for implementing sustainability and making it stick… 4 authoritative books, in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
4 authoritative Books show how to transform business sustainability from idea to profitable reality:
Understanding the value of sustainability is one thing: successfully implementing it in your business is another. Good intentions aren't enough: you need excellence in implementation. In this unique 4 eBook package, world-class experts focus on the nitty-gritty and the nuts-and-bolts of successful business sustainability: what it takes to make it work, build on success, and keep moving forward. In Creating a Sustainable Organization: Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value through Sustainability, Peter A. Soyka helps you choose the right strategies, and then manage and measure them well. Bridging the worlds of the sustainability professional and the investor/analyst, Soyka reveals what the evidence says about linkages between sustainability and value… how to effectively manage sustainability throughout the business… how to manage key investor and stakeholder relationships, and much more. Next, in Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability and Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy, Kevin Wilhelm reviews today's best practices for capitalizing on the business opportunities presented by climate change. Wilhelm helps you make the business case by identifying key climate-related business risks that will require your company to act whether it wants to or not. He presents real-world case studies of firms ranging from Yakima to Lockheed Martin, demonstrating how enterprises have significantly improved business performance by improving climate performance -- and offering practical strategies, techniques, and lessons from their experiences. Then, in Making Sustainability Stick: The Blueprint for Successful Implementation, Wilhelm offers a complete, up-to-date blueprint for successfully and profitably integrating sustainability across your enterprise. Wilhelm organizes his plan into easy-to-digest chapters, with action steps backed up from his extensive real-life consulting experience and candid interviews with 40+ directors of Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He provides a step-by-step roadmap for realizing the benefits of sustainability by fully engaging employees… a checklist for implementation… powerful tips on regaining lost momentum… and specific resources and exercises for overcoming common obstacles. Finally, in Financial Times Briefings: Sustainable Business, Brian Clegg delivers concise, practical, and actionable advice for integrating sustainability throughout your business in ways that improve both the environment and your bottom line. Organized to deliver fast and realistic solutions, this FT Briefing presents targeted strategies, detailed tactics, real cases, crucial consensus-building techniques, effective metrics, proven executive interventions, and more. Whatever your role in executing on business sustainability, this collection will help you achieve outstanding results -- environmental and financial.
From world-renowned business sustainability experts Peter A. Soyka, Kevin Wilhelm, and Brian Clegg
Sample Content
Table of Contents
Creating a Sustainable Organization: Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 2: Background and Context 15
Chapter 3: ES&G Issues and How They Affect the Business Enterprise 57
Chapter 4: Stakeholder Interests and Influences and the Social License to Operate 109
Chapter 5: Managing ES&G Issues Within the Organization 149
Chapter 6: Investors and the Power of Markets 187
Chapter 7: The Financial Impact of Effective (or Ineffective) ES&G/Sustainability Management 267
Chapter 8: Defining, Measuring, and Reporting ES&G Performance 307
Chapter 9: Making It Happen in Your Organization 359
References 381
Index 393
Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability and Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy
Acknowledgments v
Foreword vii
Introduction xi
Section 1: Addressing Climate Change: The Business Benefit 1
Chapter 1: The Climate Imperative 3
Chapter 2: Carbon Footprinting 11
Chapter 3: Business Benefit 25
Chapter 4: Return on Sustainability (ROS) 41
Section 2: Policy, Regulation, & Carbon 59
Chapter 5: Public Policy 61
Chapter 6: Carbon Taxes & Cap and Trade 75
Section 3: The Market: Demanding Action 91
Chapter 7: Energy 93
Chapter 8: Finance 105
Chapter 9: Insurance 125
Chapter 10: Supply Chain Management 133
Chapter 11: Marketing to Green Consumers 147
Chapter 12: Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting 157
Final Thoughts 167
About My Firm: Sustainable Business Consulting 169
Glossary 177
Appendix A: Equator Principles Financial Institutions 183
Appendix B: United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment 187
Appendix C: Comparison of Businesses Across Various Sustainability Rankings 2007 191
Appendix D: CSR Standards & Certifications 197
Appendix E: Interview & Text Box References 203
Endnotes 207
Making Sustainability Stick: The Blueprint for Successful Implementation
Introduction 1
How to Use This Book 5
Chapter 1: The Business Case 9
Chapter 2: Defining Sustainability 45
Chapter 3: Understanding Your Stakeholders and What Is Material to Them 53
Chapter 4: Baselining Sustainability to Measure What Matters 75
Chapter 5: Goals/Vision and Your Sustainability North Star 103
Chapter 6: Management Support Is Essential 129
Chapter 7: Understanding Change Management to Guide Implementation 141
Chapter 8: Engaging Employees Around Sustainability 177
Chapter 9: Systems, Decision Making, and Internal Alignment 201
Chapter 10: Institutionalizing Sustainability 227
Chapter 11: Communicating Sustainability Internally 245
Individuals Interviewed for This Book 265
Citations and Endnotes 267
Index 279
Financial Times Briefings: Sustainable Business
PART ONE In brief 1
Chapter 1: Executive summary 3
Chapter 2: What is sustainable business? 5
Chapter 3: Why do it? 9
Chapter 4: Who is doing it? Who has done it? 17
PART TWO In practice 31
Chapter 5: How to do it: strategy guide 33
Chapter 6: How to do it: detailed considerations 47
Chapter 7: How to justify it: developing a business case 71
Chapter 8: How to manage it 85
Chapter 9: How to measure it 93
Chapter 10: How to talk about it 105
PART THREE Intervention 119
Chapter 11: Executive intervention 121
PART FOUR In depth 129
Chapter 12: Additional resources 131
Index 141