What are the sustainability drivers in organisations? how can every part of the operation benefit from implementing an environmental program?

1. Your Green Journey
A Green Journey
in 5 minutes
Presented to your business
Rue Stanley EBEX
March 2012

2. About Your business
Your Concerns: Are you
• Brand, Reputation, • Between 10 -10,000 employees
• Increasing top line revenues, • Professional services/ICT sector
• cost efficiencies; operations sales • Numerous locations, UK &
marketing etc. International
• Compliance. • Need to sell to: public sector,
• Investor confidence utilities, financial services, retail,
• Getting ready to IPO, professional services,
• Adequate returns for investors manufacturing
• Managing Acquisitions, • Considering your options for
sustainability/ CSR/ESG Lack in
• Fast growth house skills or time?
• Everyone’s too busy
• Aspirations- to be the Leading company
Please read on, we think we can help
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2012

3. Sustainability, CSR, ESG ?
Corporate Social Responsibility
Sustainability or
ESG- Environment
Social
Governance Governance
Social
Social

4. What’s Important to you?
Your family The Best Run Businesses are greener?
Your business
Our planet
We provide products and services
that make it easier for businesses
to improve their processes, use
less resources , be more profitable
and contribute to the general
good

5. What’s Important to your business?
Efficiencies: sales, Marketing,
Reputation Brand operations, HR, Finance, Customer
Service, Manufacturing, Service delivery.
Cuts costs Improves Processes
Sustainable
Employee Motivation Compliance
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6. What’s Important?
67% of Global 250 reported Brand &
Reputation Brand Reputation key factor in CSR reporting*
70% consumers take reputation & brand into
account when choosing a purchase
We provide planning and
ESG incidents mis-managed lead to losses of
development. reputation and shareholder value.
Reporting for GRI/CDP EG: BP, Bhopal, Brent spar
Program Design
3123 organisations expelled from the GRI since
Environmental Management 2005 due to failure to report their progress.
Systems
Communications program ESG well managed leads to increase in
shareholder value, reputation & employee
engagement.
E.g.: Unilever, P&G, Marks& Spencers
*KPMG International Survey of CSR 2011

7. What’s Important?
Why waste valuable sales time looking
for answers to CSR questions?
Sales efficiencies
58% of FTSE listed companies report
quantitatively *
Responses to proposals requiring more
We provide a service to improve quantitative detail – recent example; 35
your access to accurate, timely data pages from a UK Bank on CSR
on your organisations performance
Essential for bids to public sector- 472
& policies utilising software and bid public sector bodies increased reduction
processes targets from 16-28%
People like to buy from sustainable
companies- embed into proposition, get
“Feel Good “factor

8. What’s Important?
Engaged employees = brand advocates +
resource efficiencies + innovation
Employee Motivation
44% of Global 250 cited Employee Motivation as
key reason to report on CSR*
Non-cash incentives for employees: take
employees well being seriously and offer
opportunities for development ( McKinseys 2009)
We provides software and services to Use ESG as opportunity for career development
increase employee engagement in
sustainability projects & initiatives Community projects offer opportunity to “Give
Back” and team building
Resource reduction programs need employee
engagement to succeed.
Innovations will come from employees if
encouraged.

9. What’s Important?
Why miss opportunities to introduce
measures to reduce costs and resource
Operational Efficiencies use?
32% of Global 250 cited economic reasons for
reporting CSR.*
Energy saving measures can reduce costs on
average by 8% - Carbon Trust 2011
We provide services & software to Introduction of videoconferencing reduces travel
collect and measure data on emissions, costs significantly and increases time spent by
waste, water, travel, community employees with customers. New technologies are
projects & supply chain. Providing Quick and low cost to deploy.
information to enable performance
Accurate data can mean re-negotiation of energy
reporting and business improvement supply resulting in significant savings
Measurement & management generally results
in lower costs due to efficient use of materials &
resources
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10. What’s Important?
Sustainability projects effectively managed
offer opportunities to reduce costs and
reduce time spent on reporting
Finance
Taxes: The Carbon Reduction commitment levies
approx 8% on top of energy bills. Energy costs are
expected to increase 6% in 2012.
Waste & Landfill costs are increasing
We provide products & services to: Materials costs and security of supply are growing
Reduce operational costs concerns- reducing use of scarce resources makes
Increase accuracy of investor reporting sense
Reduce risk of non-compliance
Investors: over 1000 have signed up to UN
Robust business cases: Offer predictable
Principles of Responsible investment. KKR’s Green
costs and a return on investment Portfolio program has results in over $160m
operational cost savings for 16 invested companies.
Accurate information related to resource use saves
time producing the annual and monthly
management reports.

11. What’s Important?
Sustainability projects effectively managed
offer opportunities to create innovative
Service Delivery service offerings and reduce costs
Videoconferencing and WebEx offer ways of
reducing business travel and increasing
opportunities to engage with customers.
We provide products & services to:
Engaging employees in cost reduction programs
Measure energy, waste, water,
ensures greater chances of success and more
emissions. opportunities for product innovation.
Increase accuracy of management Great services rely on great people.
reporting and project tracking
Reduce risk of non-compliance Talent development and attraction can be
Facilitate Robust business cases increased by engaging employees in
Engage employees and facilitate sustainability.
collaboration.
Accurate information related to resource use
saves time spent reporting and highlights the
areas of greatest efficiencies and opportunities
for improvements.

12. Next Steps
Do Nothing- Or
Contact us to explore how we could help you:
• Enhance reputation & brand
• Reduce costs & emissions
• Increase employee engagement
• Increase top line revenues and profitability
Rue Stanley
email: rues@ecobusiness-exchange.com
mobile: 07799 626596
ph: 01737 214364
www.ecobusiness-exchange.com
Sustainable
Business * KPMG survey CSR 2011
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March 2012

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