Sustainability

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Whether you run a government department or a business, making sure your organisation’s operations, products, services and policies are sustainable is crucial to your success. In both sectors your efforts are being heavily controlled by public policy requirements and commercial good practice.

The Context

As a government department you may need help in developing policies or programmes to deliver government policy in the areas of sustainable transport, climate change or other environmental issues. If you are in business, you are increasingly being told that successful managers must realise that sustainability has a positive impact on the bottom-line, improves marketing and branding efforts, attracts and retains staff, and contributes to the well being of all involved.

If you work in either of these sectors we can help you to develop or strengthen the sustainability component of your strategies and programmes.  

Examples of problems where we can help are:

• a government department needs to develop a behaviour change programmes aimed at encouraging businesses and the public to be more ‘sustainable’
• a business needs advice and guidance on introducing sustainability solutions to its operations
• a business needs to develop a Corporate Social Responsibility policy with strong corporate citizenship and environmental components

The outcomes from our work with clients can be:

• a sustainable transport policy and strong programme of good practice initiatives that are innovative and produce long-term results
• a strong Corporate Citizenship Programme that not only looks good but achieves results in the community and encourages partnership working with delivery partners in the voluntary and government sectors
• new sustainable policies and practice that has a strong positive impact on reducing costs and carbon emissions and produces sustainable communities

Case Study

As part of a government initiative promoting sustainable travel solutions to businesses we provided policy and programme support. The programme entailed signing up companies ranging in size from FTSE 100 to SMEs. We delivered research, seminars and good practice information to these companies that helped them adopt policy changes which usually affected both operations and staff. The programme contained a significant behaviour change component. It also assisted the government department in delivering its climate change and carbon reduction policies and goals.