What is a sustainable strategy?
A sustainability strategy outlines key targets, metrics, and actions that your organisation plan to undertake to improve their impact on the community and environment across a range of sustainability issues.
Taking a sustainable approach will encourage us to think more about the true value and costs of our activities and improve the impacts we might be having on the environment and society. By developing and delivering a sustainability strategy – a framework to structure your actions and commitments – that is relevant and proportional to your business, you are managing your impacts and demonstrating that you are serious about sustainability.
The Government’s sustainability strategies for the built environment outline clear targets for improvements and bodies such as BREEAM, CEEQUAL, and the Sustainable Facilities Management Index provide practical systems for measuring and reporting sustainability within projects. Aligning your strategy with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) is a good way to demonstrate your commitment towards global sustainability targets.
Sustainability Strategy: Sustainability Short
This animation explains why your organisation might need a sustainability strategy and shows you how to use your key drivers to develop one.
Sustainability Strategy E-Learning Modules
View a selection of modules below to increase your knowledge around strategy and its related areas.
Examples of Sustainability Strategy: Our Partners’ approach
See some examples of our Partners’ sustainability strategies.
Sustainability Strategy: An Introduction – Learning Pathway
This self-enrol learning pathway contains beginner-level resources to provide you with an introduction to what a sustainability strategy is, why it’s beneficial for your organisation to have a strategy and how you can develop your own.
The resources will guide you through answering the following questions:
- Why must we consider sustainability?
- What exactly is a sustainability strategy?
- How is a sustainability strategy incorporated into wider business?
- Why is performance management important to deliver an effective sustainability strategy?
You will receive a badge on completion of all mandatory resources. You can complete the learning pathway in your own time.
Sustainability Strategy
Engaging with the supply chain to deliver strategic sustainability
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Sustainability strategy and performance measurement
Video
Sustainability Strategy
Sustainability Strategy Made Easy
Video
Sustainability Strategy
The 17 UNSDGs
Web link
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Transparent Sustainability Reporting to achieve your Sustainability Strategy
Document/Presentation
Sustainability Strategy
Developing a Sustainability Strategy
Document/Presentation
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Best Practice on Continually Improving your Sustainability Strategy: Webinar Recording
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Drawing Insights from Data
Document/Presentation
Sustainability Assessment
Sustainability case studies