Corporate Environmental Responsibility Assessments
Know where you are, to get where you are going
Several forces are driving the evolution of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) from a fringe consideration to a core business issue. These include the activism of environmental non-government organizations (ENGOs), pressure from shareholders and investors and the opportunity to gain competitive advantage. Increasingly, good corporate environmental management is being seen by investors as a proxy for good corporate management over all.
Canadian ENGO Perspectives
To help your company improve its position in the arena of corporate environmental responsibility, and to identify further areas for action, Pembina Corporate Consulting is offering interactive presentations about corporate environmental responsibility tailored to your company's Good corporate environmental management is being seen by investors as a proxy for good corporate management over all. specific needs. Sessions involve the application of the CER Assessment Tool™, which is based on information from more than 50 Canadian environmental NGOs gathered for the ground-breaking report Defining Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Canadian ENGO Perspectives.
The CER Assessment Tool™
With more than 40 indicators of environmental performance — highlighting the expectations of the Canadian environmental community — the CER Assessment Tool™ helps your company assess where it is on the journey toward corporate environmental responsibility. By measuring your sustainability goals and performance against the CER Assessment Tool™, your company will better understand how your values and priorities are likely to stack up against those of your environmental stakeholders. As well, you will identify your company's CER strengths, gaps, areas of opportunity and potential new approaches to corporate environmental responsibility. This will lead to opportunities for increasing environmental stewardship and resource efficiency, improving your stakeholder relations and public image, and reducing the risk of corporate liability.
CER Workshops
Pembina Corporate Consulting also offers a unique opportunity for your company to build and deepen relationships with your environmental stakeholders through the simultaneous application of the CER Assessment Tool™. Pembina will facilitate a discussion between your team and environmental stakeholders that will identify areas of agreement and gaps in CER performance, as well as areas where CER performance and stakeholder The CER Assessment Tool™ leads to opportunities for increasing environmental stewardship. perception are not aligned. These sessions serve as valuable opportunities for relationship-building and education, because your staff will gain a better understanding of your stakeholders' interests and concerns, while your environmental stakeholders will gain an increased awareness of the areas of strong CER performance within your company.
Stakeholder Engagement Effectiveness Reviews
Pembina Corporate Consulting can also offer your company integrated CER Assessments and stakeholder-engagement effectiveness reviews. For more information on what a review of stakeholder-engagement effectiveness entails, see the contact information below.
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