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instituteforsustainableleadership.com GREENING YOUR BUSINESS: WHYS AND HOWS Global Summit of Women, 2018 Professor Gayle Avery Co-Director, Institute for Sustainable Leadership KEY ISSUES Why be green? Enlightened self-interest

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GREENING YOUR BUSINESS: WHYS AND HOWS

Global Summit of Women, 2018

Professor Gayle Avery Co-Director, Institute for Sustainable Leadership

instituteforsustainableleadership.com

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KEY ISSUES

Why be green?

Enlightened self-interest
Help planet, country, your business

Is being green at the expense of profits?

No, on the contrary

What are businesses doing? What can you do?

Plenty

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BEING GREEN RAISES PERFORMANCE

Countries that perform well focus on environment, society and economics.

Download our research paper for free at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-018-3805-6

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7 European countries Dev Cs 6 Anglo countries

SWI NOR DEN AUT SWE GER HOL PRC IND NZ AUS IRE CAN UK US Overall score

/o 100

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 13 37 16 21 28 35 40 57

Average environ- mental score (9 indicators)

60 68 59 63 71 69 79 61 12 73 94 75 98 82 97

Selected countries ranked on 29 indicators

(big numbers = worse performance)

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SUSTAINABLE ‘HONEYBEE’ BUSINESSES

Honeybees & Locusts Honeybee companies focus on:

Environment
All stakeholders
Their employees
Society
Ethics
Long-term
Innovation
Quality

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BMW product redesign: Hydrogen car

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Being green improves business via

Lower production costs
Enhance brand/reputation
Attract talented employees
Appeal to customers
Reflect good management practices
Improve share performance
Manage risk
Appeal to lenders/investors
And more

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What can you do?

1. Audit your use of water, gas, energy, procurement, waste, plastic use, noise, ecological footprint…. 2. Switch to renewable energy 3. Minimise use of scarce resources 4. Design products for disposal/reuse 5. Redesign packaging 6. How polluting is your fleet ? 7. Examine your supply chain 8. Share resources eg transport and logistics 9. Examine your business model re climate change

10. Develop a climate change strategy

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Climate change strategy

You need a climate change strategy

Directors’ liabilities
Some industries very exposed eg

mining, agriculture, insurance

May require new business model
Clients?
Suppliers?

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Thank you!

@Honeybeeleaders

Email: gayleavery@gmail.com