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Reporting Sustainability

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by Chad Upham

What comes first: corporate sustainability or the corporate sustainability report?

Your company has a great track record of charitable giving and community involvement. Your environmental health and safety performance has met all regulations and is best in the industry. You’ve even redesigned a few products to eliminate toxins or trim packaging material.

At this point, an internal team might begin preparing a corporate sustainability report. Soon you discover that sustainability reports typically include metrics that you’ve never calculated before: carbon emissions, energy consumption, materials used by weight and volume and average hours of training per year. You might ask: “How much time and money will it take to gather all this data? Who’s going to read this thing anyway?”

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