Measuring, Reporting and Reducing your Environmental Footprint September 27, 2011

What are the Key Environmental Metrics for Business Sustainability?

How are they measured and managed? And how do they relate to sustainability reporting initiatives such as the Carbon Disclosure Project, Global Reporting Initiative, Dow Jones, Nasdaq and other investor sustainability Indicies, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and ISO 14001 standards.
Learning Objectives

Using current case studies, best practice examples and hands-on activities you will:

1. Learn about Best Practices Research in Ecological Footprint completed by the Network for Business Sustainability, University of Western Ontario.

2. Define Ecological and Environmental Footprint, industrial metabolism, materials flow and substitution processes, input-output analysis, life cycle assessment and industrial symbiosis and understand what they mean for your company.

3. Examine the 5 Steps to your Environmental Footprint Sustainability Assessment.

4. Learn how to quantify and prioritize environmental footprint wastes through measurement, observation, and facility records.

5. Identify root causes as to why waste is generated in the first place. Learn how to design and perform financial & technical analysis of alternatives.

6. Prepare an implementation plan that categorizes each opportunity within an immediate, medium-term or long-term time frame.

7. Evaluate measurement methods and the basis for reporting.

8. Examine different methods of visually representing results and discuss the use of results in energizing employee engagement.

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