Hot Topics In Corporate Sustainability Strategy (Webinar)

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Executive Summary

What issues define corporate sustainability in 2012? Sustainability has come a long way in the last four years. But the growth in the number of issues captured under complicates the management challenge. Carbon, energy, water or biodiversity differ in relative importance for companies, their maturity in dealing with each impact, and the solutions at their disposal. This webinar will use case study analysis and unique survey data to reveal how energy, environment and sustainability leaders are responding to this shifting agenda of sustainability ‘hot topics’.

Table Of Contents

What do we mean by ’Hot Topics’?
The Hot Topics

1. Customer-Centric Sustainability
Unilever strategy is predicated on understanding the impacts along the whole
value chain
Customer-centric sustainability application by Unilever
Product portfolios that decarbonise customers’ operations and are very commercially relevant


2. Product LCA as a tool for product innovation
New GHG protocol value chain (Scope 3) standard will help companies that have been so far reluctant to include Scope 3 emissions
The Apple example shows just how relevant the full lifecycle is
A lifecycle view of products creates many opportunities for innovation 

3. Organizational Upgrades

4. Global Processes
Global processes are becoming more evident in real estate management ...
... but there is a long way to go

5. New Performance And Reporting Frameworks
The fundamental challenge of performance and reporting frameworks is to address the needs of a wide range of stakeholders

6. Competitive Dynamics
A competitive sector
A low competition sector

7. Resource efficiency
European companies are concurrently managing the regulatory processes underway

8. Water Stewardship

9. EV Roll Outs: 2011 was still marked by a lot of investment and partnering activities as the ecosystem takes shape
The chicken and the egg problem is partially resolved for EVs

10. Emerging Markets

Topics and issues that did not make the list – but are still much relevant to today’s discussion