12 Questions to Roast any Sustainability Strategy

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Sustainability Strategy is a notion easily used but hard to capture. How to design a sustainability strategy that is part of the regular business and not an add on? Start asking the right questions, because it's useful to determine if the company is on the right track. Between-us already has developed a 'Dirty Dozen' questions to get you started.

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A dirty dozen of practical questions for C-suite executives and

ESG investors to structurally scrutinize sustainability programs

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Photo, terren in Virginia, Flickr

Source: MIT Sloan, Sustainability’s next frontier

Asking questions is useful...

Feedback is more than welcomed via josee@between-us.nl . Of course we like compliments too

1. How did you

involve your

stakeholders

in strategy

development? Photo by Frerk Meyer, Flickr

2. Is your governance level

up to industry standards?

Photo by Maurice, Flickr

3. What key

sustainability

risks were

identified?

Photo by Ecodude Photos, Flickr

Photo by zizzie fizz, Flickr

4. Is your strategy based

upon a validated

Materiality Matrix?

5. How did you

align the

sustainability

strategy with

overall

business?

Photo by Kitty Terwolbeck, Flickr

6. How many levels

between your

Sustainability

Director and the

CEO?

Photo by korevo canon, Flickr

7. What was the financial

payback of the initiatives

developed?

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8. Are you measuring

impact on your

corporate reputation?

Photo by Simon Bleasdale, Flickr

9. In what

way is your

supply chain

impacted?

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10. What is your annual

spending on internal

capacity building?

Photo by Hector Alejandro, Flickr

11. What % of R&D is available

for sustainable innovation? Photo by uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, Flickr

12. Did you benchmark on

sustainability against

your competitors?

Photo by Romain, Flickr

A dirty dozen of practical questions for C-suite executives and

ESG investors to structurally scrutinize sustainability programs

follow linkedin.com/company/between-us_2

Visit www.between-us.com

Photo, terren in Virginia, Flickr