Through our service offerings, DNV supports companies in evaluating their policies, management controls, performance and disclosure around critical sustainability factors impacting their operations.
Purpose
Sustainability is an extremely popular and often misunderstood term. It can indicate corporate strategies around product innovation, ethical supply chain management, stakeholder engagement, carbon neutrality, and marketing and communications, all related to some social and/or environmental impact. An equally popular term is “Greenwashing,” an accusation leveled at organizations unable to substantiate their sustainability claims. Is your organization executing a sustainability strategy that serves you and your stakeholders? Can it stand up to the Greenwashing challenge?
Benefits
Today’s business landscape requires innovative, flexible, responsive and transparent leadership where organizations’ performance is no longer based solely on their economic indicators, but also on their social and environmental indicators. Having an effective sustainability strategy can lead to a number of competitive advantages. Developing and implementing a comprehensive sustainability strategy or enhancing existing strategic plans and risk management to include economic, social and environmental indicators of success can result in:
- Effective and timely management of your sustainability risks and opportunities
- Competitive advantages from capitalizing on opportunities and mitigating risks
- Appropriate allocation of resources to business-critical project and initiatives
- Improved transparency, credibility and trust among your stakeholders.
Features
With DNV’s 150-year history as a globalized company, our reach extends from your market to your supply chain. From the outset, our approach has been based on credible management of technological and operational risk and has since expanded to encompass sustainability disciplines:
- Environmental, social and economic risk analyses
- Supply chain risk management and strategies
- Energy and water footprinting and metrics
- Sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting
- Product sustainability management and performance
- Strategies for stakeholder engagement.