Measuring Environmental Performance

Challenge: How to measure environmental performance as part of your business strategy

Solution: EnviroStart to define & design environmental reporting.

Business in Australia has to deal with rising energy prices, increased environmental legislation like the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting and a potential introduction of the Emission Trading Scheme. In addition, there is also increasing pressure from stakeholders to show hard evidence of your environmental performance. Where do you start? Oxygen and Bluestone Energy bring you the EnviroStart SmartStart solution for effective Environmental Performance Management.

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Environmental Performance Reporting has recently become the norm in business. A 2008 KPMG survey found that 80% of Global Fortune 250 companies disclose their sustainability performance, up from 50% in 2005. As of Dec
2009, over 2,500 companies worldwide and 83% of the Global 500 companies reported their greenhouse gas emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project.

From a regulatory standpoint managing your environmental performance is mainly voluntary and non-regulated. The Envirostart solution assists organisations in selecting their environmental performance indicators to align with the business strategy and designing an environmental dashboard that is relevant to the business and stakeholders

Typical challenges

Choosing full environmental, economic and social sustainability or the bottom line
Determining the environmental reporting scope and boundaries
Which protocol to use for environmental reporting?

The EnviroStart SmartStart solution overcomes these challenges by identifying these environmental reporting requirements:

Transparent definitions for environmental performance for shareholders, investors, the public and employees
A single view on environmental process information
Pro-active management of environmentalperformance with meaningful analytics
Streamlined environmental reporting,improved data quality and consistency and defined business rules

Realisable benefits

Manage Risk:

Align Environmental Performance Indicators with strategic goals and define measurable targets
Make data meaningful by relating environmental performance to key business performance indicators,
Manage environmental incidents and identify near misses and processes to avoid incidents
Analyse environmental data instead of focusing on collecting data

Reduce Cost:

Pro-actively manage environmental incidents, reducing your cleanup cost
Increase labour utilisation with advanced dashboards and analytical tools
Reduce labour time to prepare for environmental audits

Identify Opportunities:

Gain insight into sustainability trends, outliers and potential best practices
Compare environmental performance to that of competitors
Qualify for Government and industry tenders by demonstrating outstanding environmental performance
Relate your environmental performance to key business measures, such as environmental performance per unit of sales, dollar revenue or employee

People, technology, process – the SmartStart approach
With the EnviroStart SmartStart approach, you benefit from in-depth environmental compliance and performance experience, business process re-engineering and technology solutions to support the processes.

Once EnviroStart has helped define and design your environmental reporting, Oxygen can implement a range of relating SAP sustainability solutions. Bluestone Energy provides environmental intelligence and management expertise along with logical and sound busines
re-engineering principles and methodologies.

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