Sustainability Strategies
Strategy tools for sustainability strategies.
14 tools
- Carbon Footprint Calculator for Business — Total emissions across direct, purchased-energy, and value-chain activity before setting any reduction target.
- Circular Business Model Canvas — Give adoption factors and take-back their own blocks on the canvas, not just a question bolted onto the existing ones.
- Circularity Gap Reporting Tool — Measure the share of your material flow that is genuinely circular, then target the gap.
- Efficiency and sustainability tradeoff — Name the specific trade-off between an efficiency gain and its sustainability cost, instead of assuming win-win.
- Four Steps to a Conscious Business — Move from autopilot to purpose - self-awareness, transparency, stakeholder dialogue, then visible action.
- Green Management — Build environmental practice into how a business runs, not bolt it on as a press release.
- Integrated Reporting Framework — One report connecting six capitals, financial to natural, to show how the business actually creates value.
- Life Cycle Analysis — Trace a product's environmental impact from raw material to disposal to find where the real damage happens.
- Performance Prism — Measure performance across five stakeholder-linked facets, not financial results alone.
- Responsible Sourcing Framework — Set supplier standards, audit by risk tier, and fix problems with corrective plans instead of instant delisting.
- Supply Chain Transparency — Trace where inputs actually come from, tier by tier, so sourcing claims can be backed up with data.
- Sustainability Assessment Frameworks — A standard set of criteria for measuring and reporting environmental, social and economic impact.
- Sustainability and Circular Economy Model — Redesign the business so materials are recovered and reused instead of extracted, used once and binned.
- Triple Bottom Line — Judge performance on three accounts at once - profit, people and planet - not profit alone.