About ESG
Sustainability ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is a subject matter framework that organizes corporate efforts to balance profitability with environmental and social consciousness.
A sustainable development governance offers transparent reporting for the accomplishment of meeting sustainable development goals (including environmental and social equality).
Corporations are progressing by leaps and bounds in adopting the balanced best practices for the 17 sustainable development goals, initiated by the United Nations in 2015; ISO standards initiated by the International Standards Organization to support the United Nations goals; and Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) to promote a balanced ESG transparent scorecard that represents social and environmentally conscious corporations, who are trying to reduce their carbon footprint (GHG emissions), reduce reliance on non-renewable energy; reduce waste; reduce workflow steps; and reduce social injustices, incorporating new environmental and human rights policies and procedures into their corporate framework.
The Natural Step (TNS) Framework
The Funnel
The Natural Step uses the metaphor of a funnel to help visualize the economic, social and environmental pressures that inevitably effect society as natural resources continue to diminish and populations grow.
System Conditions
The Natural Step's principles of sustainability define the conditions that must be met in order to have a sustainable society.
These four System Conditions are the core of the Natural Step's sustainability framework. The Natural Step reflects a
System level understanding of how the Earth functions.
The following conditions are not exclusive of each other. Each step influences the other to produce a sustainable or unsustainable result.
1. Concentrations of substances extracted from the Earth's crust,
2. Concentrations of substances produced by society,
3. Degradation by physical means and, in that society...
4. People are not subject to conditions that systematically undermine their capacity to meet their needs.
Implementation Methodology
How can the system conditions be applied to an organization's everyday operations? The Natural Step has developed and tested,
an ABCD approach, to help complex organizations to incorporate sustainability into their strategic planning and decision making processes.
The Natural Step uses back casting - framing the goals with a desired future outcome - and systematic step-by-step implementation, providing benefits in the short-term, while retaining longer term perspectives. Back casting is developed by starting with the goal and working backwards to the steps it will take to reach the goal.
Sustainable Development Consulting
“Sustainability Act Now” consulting, includes case studies relating to specific industry segments, GRI and ISO balanced scorecards for ESG analysis, results incorporated into a final Annual Sustainability Report.
We provide corporations who are working toward sustainable development with a gap analysis, balanced scorecard and final reporting for their ESGs. Our consulting also includes workflow analysis to renovate manufacturing and production processes to a lean workflow.
We help corporations develop their own sustainable development divisions. We also design new sustainability business segments for consulting firms. We are policy and procedure experts for environmental policy and human rights equality policies and procedures.