The Sustainable Enterprise: Profiting from Best Practice - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Chris Brown has wexperience in sales, marketing and strategic planning for a number of major manufacturing and retail organisations including Unilever, Kingfisher and Sainsbury's. He is a past director of the Institute of Sales Promotion and Chairperson of the Unilever Promotions Mangers Committee. He now runs a marketing and business strategy consultancy 'The Cornford Consultancy'. He welcomes feedback on The Sales Promotion Handbook' and other Promotional, Marketing and Category Management issues (Email: feedback@cornford.co.uk)

Jonathan Reuvid graduated in PPE at Oxford University, worked as an economist for the French national oil company, Total, and then in investment banking before taking up senior line and staff positions in industry including general management of a Fortune 500 multinational covering most Western European countries.

Subsequently, Jonathan Reuvid engaged in joint venture development in China and a parallel career in business book publishing. He is author of or consultant editor for more than 30 Kogan Page titles.

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Part 1: Regulation and standards for sustainable issues



1.1 Sustainable value: legal overview

Julie Smith, Simmons & Simmons

1.2 Environmental regulation in the 21st century

Jim Gray, Environment Agency

Background; Modernizing regulation; Business benefits; Modernizing regulation in practice

1.3 Standards and sustainability

Errol Taylor, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)

The business case; The roles of standards and standardization; Selecting the best fit for your organization; Conclusion

1.4 Trading greenhouse gases

Keith Brierley, Environment Agency

How trading will work; Further information

1.5 Business standards: legal overview

Jacqui O'Keefe, Simmons & Simmons



1.6 Environmental and sustainability reporting

Rachel Jackson, ACCA

What is environmental reporting?; What is sustainability reporting?; Reporting by small and medium-sized enterprises; Benefits of environmental and sustainability reporting; Stakeholders and their information needs; The Global Reporting Initiative; Components of a sustainability report

Part 2: Sustainability issues in business management

2.1 A new framework for business: legal overview

James Samuel, Simmons & Simmons

2.2 Risk management

Greg Pritchard, CPA Audit

2.3 Supplier diversity

The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)

Understanding supplier diversity; The legislative framework; Making good business sense of supplier diversity; Challenging the issues; Summary; Notes

2.4 Process efficiency: legal overview

James Taylor, Simmons & Simmons

2.5 Funding and investment: legal overview

Julie Smith, Simmons & Simmons

Part 3: Transport, health, safety and employment issues

3.1 Transport: legal overview

Julie Smith, Simmons & Simmons

3.2 Travel plans in London: good for business, good for staff, good for communities

Lynn Morgan and Conrad Haigh, Transport for London

What is a travel plan?; Why should an organization develop a travel plan?; What benefits can a travel plan bring?; Promoting travel plans in London

3.3 Effective fleet management: reducing costs, helping the environment

Conrad Haigh, Transport for London

Transport and the environment; Transport and health; Government action to reduce harmful emissions; 'Greening' vehicle fleets

3.4 Health and safety: legal overview

James Taylor, Simmons & Simmons

3.5 Occupational health and safety

Errol Taylor, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)

The business case; Legislators and regulators; The investors' perspective; The skills gap; Management attitudes; Tools, techniques and standards; Conclusion; Case 1: the food industry; Case 2: noise; Case 3: stress

3.6 Employment: legal overview

James Taylor, Simmons & Simmons

3.7 The changing world of work: an insight into work trends of 2016

Ruth Hounslow, Manpower UK

The situation; The Manpower report - The Changing World of Work: An insight into work trends of 2016; Flexibility is key; The world of work is changing; Conclusions

Part 4: Business and the community

4.1 Marketing and consumption: legal overview

James Taylor, Simmons & Simmons

4.2 Brand integrity in the sustainable enterprise

Ian Bretman, The Fairtrade Foundation

4.3 Green labelling

Nick Cliffe, Forest Stewardship Council

Self-declared environmental claims; Existing labelling schemes

4.4 Corporate responsibility and innovation

John Sabapathy, AccountAbility

Innovating through corporate responsibility: what Milton Friedman meant to say; Community-enabled innovation: practical propositions; Reasons why there is not more community-enabled innovation; Community-enabled innovation: strategic factors

4.5 Companies and employees: working together to invest in communities

Graham Leigh, Charities Aid Foundation

Introduction; Measuring and reporting contributions; Managing budgets for donations; New developments; CCI - how much is enough?; Involving employees; Key principles for promoting involvement of employees in a community; Promotion tips

4.6 Aiming for Waste Neutral

Dan Ryan, The Eden Project

Setting the scene; It's not what we do, it's the way that we do it; What can a business do really?; Summary

4.7 Let's talk rubbish

Tim Price, Severnside Recycling

Developing a strategy - the environmental supply chain

4.8 The construction industry: responding to the rise of sustainability and corporate social responsibility Peter Bonfield, BRE Construction

Rethinking construction; Operating in a complex environment; Lean construction; Client demand; A collaborative approach reaps dividends

4.9 External relationships: legal overview

James Samuel, Simmons & Simmons

Part 5: Energy, land use and the environment

5.1 Energy use: legal overview

Jacqui O'Keefe, Simmons & Simmons

5.2 Energy efficiency

Tim Ashmore, TAES Energy

Meeting the energy challenges ahead; Public pressure; UK government and EU action; Renewable energy; Measuring and monitoring energy wastage; Implementing energy efficiency; Alternative financing; Conclusion

5.3 Office efficiency

Anna Francis, Waste Watch

Waste and recycling; Equipment; Energy; How to start greening your office

5.4 Thames Water and climate change

Richard Aylard, Thames Water

Summary; Introduction; Government position; Climate change and Thames Water; Conclusions; Notes; References

5.5 Tackling climate change globally

Unilever

The Unilever strategy; Addressing global warming; Conclusion

5.6 Emissions and contaminants: legal overview

Julie Smith, Simmons & Simmons

5.7 Carbon offsets

Tom Morton, Climate Care

Introduction; Carbon offsets; So it's all about planting trees?; Technology projects; What can I offset?; High-quality offsets; Conclusions

5.8 Land use: legal overview

James Samuel, Simmons & Simmons

5.9 Waste and recycling: legal overview

Jacqui O'Keefe, Simmons & Simmons

5.10 Waste management

Jon Foreman, Environment Agency

The expensive waste mountain; Legal hazards; What should business do?; What is the Environment Agency doing?; Where to find out more

5.11 Managing environmental risk

Karl Russek, ACE European Group

Operational risk; Legacy risk; Political risk; Disclosure/financial reporting issues; Business risk; Reputation risk; The role of insurance in environmental risk management