4: Sustainability
Grow your business and ensure you’re best placed now and in the future to be known as a leader in sustainable development.
A good quality Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program has sustainability at its core. Sustainable development refers to any development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
In Good Company (IGC) services include: Climate change mitigation and adaption, Sustainability strategy, Carbon law and reporting, carbon accountancy, reduced carbon emissions, decarbonisation, ownership of carbon assets and associated income and holistic carbon management programs.
Companies committed to sustainability outperformed industry averages by 15% over the first six months of the Global Financial Crisis.
Source: A.T. Kearney- Green Winners: The Performance of Sustainability-focused Companies in the Financial Crisis
61% of executives associate mitgating climate change with a positive effect on profits.
Source: Mckinsey Quarterly Global 2007