Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability & Sustainable Development

Operational Sustainability Assessment

Moving toward sustainability requires clear understanding of the current state of your organization. We examine your organization's key social and ecological aspects and resource flows across the entire value chain in order to find areas of opportunity for savings and elimination of unsustainable practices, and to identify and maximize current successful sustainable practices, driving profit and growth of value.

Carbon Footprint Analysis

Your organization's carbon footprint is a snapshot of its impact on the climate and its exposure to risk in an increasingly carbon-constrained world. We audit and analyze your greenhouse gas emissions, and advise you on cost-effective strategies for reduction and mitigation.

Strategic Planning

We facilitate strategy development, planning from a perspective of success to build a practical path towards sustainability and good corporate citizenship. We work with you to craft a compelling vision of your sustainable organization and identify the foundation of current success practices upon which to build. By monitoring the latest developments in sustainable practices and technologies, we can provide you with recommendations for innovative measures for improvement. We advise on priority-setting and development of appropriate indicators and auditing criteria to measure progress.

Reporting

Effective communication of your strategy and progress is integral to your sustainability brand. We manage corporate social responsibility and sustainability reporting projects (assembling data, writing, and editing) for most major reporting frameworks, including the Global Reporting Initiative, the Carbon Disclosure Project, etc. that provide a platform to build your organization's visibility as a good corporate citizen.

Advisory Services

Strategic Communications & Stakeholder Engagement

Effective communication with stakeholders provides different perspectives on your organization and its practices. We develop comprehensive communications and stakeholder engagement strategies that enhance organizational reputation, and we facilitate credible stakeholder engagement with shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, community members, regulators, etc. to uncover key issues and concerns.

Sustainability Initiative Project Management & Advisory Services

We will work with you to develop an approach to sustainability that is catered to the individual needs of your organization. We offer our services and expertise on a contracted project basis to manage and contribute to the success of your initiatives, allowing you to avoid hiring and/or training full-time employees for distinct projects.

Capacity Building

Moving toward sustainability requires learning and change. Successful organizations combine their positive time-tested practices with innovative capacity building. We deliver sustainability education initiatives in the form of workshops, personalized training modules and one-on-one or team coaching that empowers each individual member of your organization to be fully engaged in your sustainability strategy, stimulating creativity and enthusiasm in the workplace.

All workshops are run by one or two sustainability experts from the Greenland team, in order to ensure a broad spectrum of resources, sufficient support, and deeper capacity to engage.

Introduction to Sustainability Workshop

• Understanding sustainability and how it relates to your organization
• Planning in complex systems
• Corporate Social Responsibility

Strategic Planning for a Sustainable Organization Workshop

• Basic sustainability assessment
• Developing a sustainability vision for your organization
• Action planning toward your sustainability vision

Intermediate Sustainability Workshop

• The science of sustainability
• The ethics of sustainable development
• Key topics: climate change

Champions: Leading Sustainability Initiatives Workshop

• Introduction to sustainability
• Introduction to strategic planning for a sustainable organization
• Overview of tools & concepts of strategic sustainability
• Case studies of sustainability initiatives
• The science of sustainability
• The ethics of sustainable development
• Climate change and carbon-neutrality
• Leading and sustaining organizational change

Custom Capacity Building & Leadership Development Workshops

Looking for deeper exploration of key sustainability tools and concepts? We create customized workshops on a variety of topics, including:

• The Science of Sustainability
• Climate Change
• Emissions Trading & the Carbon Markets
• Social Sustainability
• Exploring Human Needs
• The Evolutionary Organization
• Evolutionary Leadership for Sustainability
• Personal Growth Practices for Sustainability
• Management Systems for Sustainable Businesses
• Sustainable Product Development
• Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Frameworks

Coaching Sessions

Coaching sessions focus on building individual or small team capacity for leading sustainability initiatives. Sessions are two hours long with two coaches, and are tailored for individual needs. They provide support tools to assist you in developing and achieving your personal and professional sustainability goals.

Some focus areas include workshop topics, as well as:

Team Capacity-building Program Development
Developing your ability to create and deliver education packages tailored to your team, including: presentations, worksheets, action lists, etc.

Sustainability Lesson Development for Educators
Developing lessons plans that infuse sustainability education into explicit and implicit teaching, including team, project-based and service learning opportunities

Stakeholder Engagement
Developing strategies for engaging with key stakeholders outside of your organizational boundary: suppliers, partners, clients, facilities managers, etc. to accelerate progress towards sustainability, accounting for the full range of direct and indirect impacts of your activities