Step 2: Set bold carbon reduction targets Measuring an organisation’s carbon footprint is essential because that data can be used to inform and monitor carbon reduction targets. Targets are necessary in driving organisational transformation, as these outline the organisation’s aim, increasing employee awareness and ensuring that decarbonisation is an organisation-wide priority. Setting targets with a […]
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Practical Steps to decarbonise
Map your carbon footprint Organisations looking to decarbonise face the challenge of having to balance long-term, sustained transformation with delivering short-term results and value (CISL, 2018). To reconcile the two, efficient monitoring systems are required. This is an important first step for an organisation to comprehensively measure its carbon footprint, particularly in terms of identifying […]
Overcoming barriers to organisational change
Sue Garrard discusses her experience as the Executive Vice Principle of Sustainable Business and Communications at Unilever and some of the steps necessary for driving organisational change. She also outlines the challenges she encountered and overcame as well as the lessons learned while driving sustainability across her organisation. Sue Garrard posed four key questions for […]
Driving organisational transformation
Practices, technologies and culture Practices It is critical to design and implement operational practices that align with organisational purpose and strategy. Operational practices can include “product design and eco-design, adoption of environmental and social standards, process improvement and lean operations, purchasing, supply chain management (SCM), logistics including recycling and closed-loop systems, performance measurement and risk […]
Driving organisational transformation
Becoming a net zero business Businesses wishing to achieve a net zero end-goal require significant organisational transformation. To effectively respond to the complexities of climate change and the net zero transition, the fundamental purpose, value, practices and functioning of organisations need to change. Context, purpose and values Context The world has always been unpredictable, but […]