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PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR COMPANIES DEVELOPING A SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. The most relevant elements for modern sustainability management, taken from an in-depth analysis of international sustainability frameworks and from a survey with leading companies in Chile, Mexico and Germany.
MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | IDEAS MADE TO MATTER 5 STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS plastics. Though this could take decades given the operational, regulatory, and supply chain challenges associated with such work, their near-term and interme-diate steps are designed to explicitly move them toward the big-picture goal.
- 1 Carbon Footprint
- 2 Ecological Footprint
- 3 Water Footprint
- 4 Environmental Footprint
- 5 Nitrogen Footprint
- 6 Social Footprint
- 7 Ethical Footprint
- 8 Comparison of The Different Footprint Concepts
Parallel to the increasing concern about climate change also in the corporate sphere, many companies and other organizations tend to account and control their carbon emissions. The Carbon Footprint (CF) measures the total amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are directly and indirectly caused by an activity (Wiedmann et al. 2009; Jungbluth...
The Ecological Footprint (EF) in general tracks the human demand for, and compares it against nature’s supply of biocapacity (Rees 1992; GFN 2012; Csutora and Zsoka 2014, Toth and Szigeti 2016). The EF originally measures human pressure onto the ecosystem in terms of global hectares regarding the following fields (for a detailed methodology see GFN...
The water footprint (WF) evolved from attempts to capture the flow of ‘virtual water’ between nations embodied in traded products (Allan 1998; Hoekstra and Hung 2002; Marjaine Szerenyi and Kocsis 2012). It measures the amount of freshwater used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business (Ho...
While organizational EF aimed to provide compact information on some selected aspects of environmental sustainability, the organizational environmental footprint (EnvF) intends to provide a multidimensional environmental assessment (Gaussin et al. 2013) covering the full scope of environmental impacts of organizational activity (Northey et al. 2013...
One of the newest members of the ‘footprint family’ is the nitrogen footprint (NF), developed by Leach et al. (2012). Release of reactive nitrogen to the environment caused by human activity results in a series of disruptive effects including smog, acidification, eutrophication and increase of the greenhouse effect. The authors emphasize that the m...
Together with the increasing interest in various environmental footprints, ideas have also been put forward to express the social aspect of sustainability through similar indicators. However, most of these are at an early stage of operationalization and are little more than metaphors at present. One such attempt which is specifically intended to as...
Similarly to SF footprint, corporate ethical footprint (EthF) is also an emerging concept, covering mainly the social aspects of corporate sustainability performance. Although it lacks a methodological rigor compared to the different environmental footprint concepts, Baden and Harwood (2013) highlights its importance to provide a normative, positiv...
Different footprints presented in the thematic analysis cover different dimensions of the sustainability performance of companies and other organizations. Figure 3aims to provide an overview of the relationship of the different concepts. As the systematic analysis shows, footprint concepts are mostly related to the environmental domain of sustainab...
- Gábor Harangozó, Anna Széchy, Gyula Zilahy
- 2015
Measure, monitor, predict and report on your organization’s environmental footprint while providing near real-time insights to accelerate sustainability initiatives and reduce impact to your business operations and supply chain.
Jun 30, 2021 · This paper consists of three sections. The first section examines the concept of sustainable practices-its origin, definition and taxonomy. The second section explains 'why' the focus on...
footprint. Define your baseline – your baseline is your environmental footprint today. Set your targets. Decide what your targets will be to reduce your footprint – and over what time. Integrate your EMS into your business. STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 PAGE 9 | DEMYSTIFYING ENIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR SMPS
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Nov 4, 2014 · Reviews the evolution and theory of Sustainability Footprints e.g. carbon footprint and examines the critical success factors and contributions to small to medium sized enterprises (SME) growth...
