The CBI’s Sustainability Community members share best practice and advice on creating a culture of sustainability at your business.
09 Oct 2023, 3 min read
Key takeaways
- Don't regard sustainability as an add on to your strategy
- Show the cost of inaction
- Engage as wide group of stakeholders as possible
In a recent CBI Sustainability Community’s webinar on accelerating change in your organisation, Gregg’s Paul Irwin-Rhodes shared his top tips for integrating sustainability into wider corporate culture:
- Try to engage and inform all of your colleagues and stakeholders. We try to take everybody's take into our decision making.
- Show the cost of inaction. If you don't do anything, what would be the impact on the business? We talk to our economists and the board on a regular basis. Often with sustainability it makes a complete business and reputational sense to act, and we’ve made strong links between sustainability action and our risk management model.
- To drive an accountability and performance, try to set quantitative targets. And if it has to be a qualitative target, make it a very strong one. This leaves less room for veering off track and keeps all our teams on track. It keeps our internal audit tea
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