Environmentally Sensitive Business
It now widely accepted that climate change is one of the most important challenges facing us. Organisations, both public and private have a responsibility to act now to ensure that their activities of today do not adversely affect the society of tomorrow.
As one of today's business leaders you understand that you must act but you are not exactly sure how. You know that your managers understand the regulatory requirements and that there is a myriad of energy efficiency and sustainable initiatives going on within your organisation. But there is often no clear view of what these are delivering or what will be achieved.
Hitachi Ltd., ranked No 1 in the 2006 Roberts Environmental Centre Sustainability Index, has an impressive track record of sustainable development and environmental management stretching back to 1972. Hitachi Consulting, from its experience of helping over 140 organisations embed carbon management within their organisations, knows that developing an environmentally sensitive business is complex and challenging. It must permeate organisational boundaries, change strategies and policies, transform decision-making and change the behaviours of employees. It must be supported at the highest levels for it to effectively take root in the organisation and it must tap into the latent enthusiasm of staff that are already sensitive to the environment in their personal lives. Above all, it requires energy and commitment to embed sustainable working practices into tasks and operations that take place every day.
Our environmentally sensitive solutions include:
- Carbon Management - understanding your carbon footprint, identifying how to reduce this in the short term, working with you embed carbon management into the way you do business and inspiring you to even larger reductions over the longer term
- Sustainable Procurement - working with your management and procurement teams to ensure that your processes and procedures allow you to purchase goods and services which take into account the impact on the environment through the whole project lifecycle, not just price
- ECO Data Centre Analytic - analysis of the set up, policies, procedures of your data storage facilities with recommendations for short term and long term energy savings
- Staff Travel - a significant proportion of any organisation's carbon footprint is generated from the miles your people travel during the course of carrying out their operations. This area offers significant short term savings. We help you to develop a baseline of the carbon emissions and make recommendations for reductions
Sustainability and Carbon Management is not driven by legislation or new IT systems. It requires helping people understand why they need to change, how they can change their current working practices and their personal lives to be more sustainable and supporting them through that change. From our experience of bringing about long-term change, we can provide your teams with support, advice and guidance to help you and your teams achieve the sustainable outcomes you desire and build on what your staff are already doing at home.