Assessment and Planning

UNCOVERING THE VALUE OF SUSTAINABILITY

The key to sustainability planning is to ensure that your organization is investing its resources wisely. Uncovering the business value of sustainability will help your organization identify critical areas of focus, as well as factors that may be distracting your business from its objectives. Organizations that turn sustainability into a competitive advantage are those who shift the focus from mitigating risks to capturing value.

Where should you start? EEM can help your organization identify the drivers, both risks and opportunities, that will frame your sustainability strategy. Once identified, we provide the support to link these drivers to tangible objectives that will frame your sustainability effort and ensure alignment with the organization's core objectives and strategy.

Services

Sustainability Assessment

  • Assess gaps against industry best practices and standards;
  • Benchmark practices and performance against key competitors;
  • Identify and assess key market trends affecting your organization;
  • Use established and proprietary sustainability frameworks to assess the sustainability context of the organization;
  • Perform a targeted risk/opportunity assessment linking sustainability drivers to tangible value-drivers for the organization

Visioning and Objective Setting

  • Determine key result areas and set a sustainability vision for the organization;
  • Identify and prioritize objectives, targets and associated performance indicators based on an appreciation of the cost and benefit of implementation;
  • Develop an operationalization roadmap for the organization.

Products

EEM offers the following turnkey assessment and planning consulting packages to its clients:

Case Studies

  • Energy Sector Sustainability Risk Assessment

    EEM worked with an Ontario-based energy generator and re-seller to plan and facilitate a sustainability risk and opportunity assessment workshop with senior management.

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  • Sustainable Development Visioning & Strategy

    EEM accompanied a major Canadian printing company in forging a sustainable development strategy.

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  • Sustainability vision and objective setting for an independent school

    EEM accompanied a Montreal-based independent school in developing a sustainability vision and action plan to guide the school's sustainability program.

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  • Development of a multi-year Green Plan for an international sporting organization

    EEM was invited to develop a multi-year Green Plan for a major sporting event in Montreal covering waste management, water-use, air emissions, toxic substances and procurement.

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