Are you unsure what sustainability looks like for your business, and how to measure it?
Do your sustainability reporting needs outweigh your current team capacity?
Do you want to have more sustainable procurement processes in your organization, and aren’t sure how?
Are you struggling to articulate your organization’s climate change impacts and risks?
The Textile Lab for Circularity (TLC) is excited to host sustainability expert, Dr. Bob Willard as he shares his Sustainability Advantage suite of FREE tools and gives tangible examples of how they accelerate your business’ sustainability goals.
The tools that Bob will present:
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This tool unearths an organization’s sustainability performance evaluated against science based goals for core sustainability issues and relates them to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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After using BSAT, you may identify areas that need improvement. This tool helps build a business case for any sustainability-related project. The workbook includes the traditional return on investment (ROI) financial analysis of costs and benefits ― hence, its title. Plus, it includes a Project Appraisal Tool that helps CFOs make better-informed resource allocation decisions in the more turbulent 21st century business environment.
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The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommends disclosure of the financial impacts of climate-related risks and opportunities to an organization. The tool is used for internal management purposes and in the company’s Management Discussions and Analysis (MD&A) for management estimates of how climate change-related risks are reasonably likely to affect future financial statements and what the company is doing about it. The tool also includes Scope 1, 2 &3 GHG emission calculators.
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The free, open-source Sustainable Procurement Toolkit contains templates and tools that help implement three critical aspects of a sustainable procurement system including an RFP Specifications Template, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Tool and Bid Evaluation Tool.
In this webinar you’ll discover:
The best tool to use for a basic sustainability assessment on your business
How applying these tools helps identify & address core sustainability issues in your business
How to assess your business operations against the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Three critical aspects of a sustainable procurement system complete with templates and tools to implement
How to meet critical reporting commitments on the financial risks associated with climate change
The advantages of using these tools to strengthen your organization’s business case for sustainability
Who should attend?
Bob’s Resources to Accelerate Your Sustainability Journey webinar is for small and medium sized businesses, as well as large national or international corporations with sustainability reporting needs who want greater clarity on what tools can streamline and accelerate their reporting processes, and how to use them. Organizations with complex supply chains and the desire to create sustainable procurement practices should attend, including governmental bodies, cities and municipalities.
Read on for how this webinar helps you if you are a…
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As your business grows, so does the need to implement more robust or advanced systems, including those needed to establish, track and report on key sustainability metrics. It can be very confusing to identify where to start, which metrics are of the greatest importance to your business or would have the most impact if NOT reported on. It can also be challenging to allocate resources and personnel to establish the necessary systems as often they’re already multitasking within their job role.
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Larger corporations with extended stakeholder groups or public reporting requirements need to efficiently navigate sustainability metrics, track their performance and report on their activities with transparency and consistency. They also need to improve their performance over time in financial, ecological and social aspects, all of which have specific business risks to be addressed including climate change & resource management, supply chain & procurement impacts and their social conduct as a business. Failure to report could have dire implications to the business’ reputation, their ability to trade publicly or have dire cost repercussions when not fully aware and prepared to respond to market changes.
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Cities and municipalities have complex systems that rely on the organization's ability to know its needs and efficiently respond to them. They have a unique position in that their success is directly linked to servicing the needs of their constituents safely and effectively. They also have complex stakeholder relationships with a wide variety of groups including homeowners, businesses, faith communities, and special interest groups; all of which share mutual interests in the health of their living environment. Failure to have systems in place and to report on their performance for ecological, social and economic indicators can impact these organizations ability to function well. Additionally, learning how to more sustainably manage their complex supply chains can negatively impact the city or municipality’s operations.
By joining this webinar, you’ll have the opportunity to:
Discover Bob’s suite of free, open-source tools & templates specifically for sustainability reporting
Learn to use tried-and-true templates for sustainable procurement practices
Fast-track your learning curve for selecting the correct tool for your organization
Build organizational knowledge of sustainability reporting & tool selection
Receive expert guidance how to navigate the ‘reporting tool landscape’ and streamline your process
YOU’RE INVITED
Join The Textile Lab for Circularity and expert guest Dr. Bob Willard for an engaging 1.5hr live webinar in which Bob will personally walk you through his suite of Sustainability Advantage Tools & templates PLUS open the floor up for a live Q&A.
Webinar Date: May 19th
Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30PM EST
We work to make our educational offerings accessible by providing fees at a sliding scale. Please select the rate that is most appropriate for the size of your organization and the state of your operations.
Are financial constraints or barriers preventing your participation? A limited number of our Community Education Grants are available - to apply, please complete this quick form.
Who is Dr. Bob Willard?
Dr. Bob Willard is a leading expert on quantifying and selling the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and has given over 1,500 presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. Bob applies his business and leadership experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities by using smart environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.
He has authored six books: The Sustainability Advantage (2002), The Next Sustainability Wave (2005), The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook (2009), The New Sustainability Advantage (2012), Release 1 of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark (co-authored, 2016), and the Sustainability ROI Workbook (2017). His extensive Master Slide Decks and free, open-source toolkits, templates and videos provide comprehensive capacity-building resources for sustainability champions.
TESTIMONIALS
“In my view Bob is one of the leading synthesizers of corporate sustainability trends, drivers and implementation strategies practicing today. He is a terrific communicator and he is able to condense the complexity of sustainability into key messages and actions that businesses can understand and act on.”
““Bob is an inspiration to many of us (executives, practitioners, ‘champions’) in the sustainability movement; has a passion, positive attitude, generosity and practical approach that is infectious; drives organizations to sustainable business practices because it makes cents/sense; and encourages many of us to to take a thoughtful approach within the organizations where we work and in our everyday lives.””
Why Bother Doing a Sustainability Assessment?
The results of a comprehensive sustainability assessment can provide key metrics for your organization and its diverse stakeholders.
Executives and boards can, at minimum, fulfill their duty of care and ensure the organization obtains full eco-efficiency savings and reputational value from its sustainability efforts.
Engaging employees from various departments in completing an assessment can be a collaborative, team-building exercise that builds employee pride and loyalty.
Suppliers disclosing their sustainability metrics earn the trust and loyalty of values led consumers.
Reporting helps providers of capital and insurers assess the organization’s eligibility for preferential treatment as a low-risk investee, borrower, or insuree.
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