12 Questions to Scrutinize any Sustainability Strategy

TO EVALUATE YOUR SUSTAINABILITY

PROGRAM

12 QUESTIONS

Only 37% trust they have a clear

business case for sustainability

12 questions to evaluate your sustainability program Source: MIT Sloan, Sustainability’s next frontier

1.ONLY PHILANTHROPY, NO BUSINESS FOCUS

2.NOT KNOWING THE KEY MATERIAL ISSUES

3.NO REAL ROADMAP FOR IMPLEMENTATION

FAIL FACTORS IN SUSTAINABILITY

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To help out, we have developed a dirty

dozen of questions, based on 20

years of experience

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Asking questions is useful too

12 questions to evaluate your sustainability program

1. How did you involve your stakeholder in strategy development?

2. Is your governance level up to industry standards?

3. What key sustainability risks were identified?

4. Is your strategy based upon a validated materiality matrix?

5. How did you align the sustainability strategy with overall business?

5. How many levels between your sustainability Director and the CEO?

So far, fair enough

But what about your numbers?

12 questions to evaluate your sustainability program

7. What was the financial payback of the initiatives developed?

8. Are you measuring impact on your corporate reputation?

9. In what way is your supply chain impacted?

10. What is your annual investment for internal capacity building?

11. What percentage of R&D is available for sustainable innovation?

12. Did you benchmark on sustainability against your competitors?

Did you answer all questions easily or

could you use support to improve

your sustainability program?

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12 questions to evaluate your sustainability program

TO EVALUATE YOUR SUSTAINABILITY

PROGRAM

12 QUESTIONS