The Sustain4 Solution
Environmental performance management
Sustain4 is the fastest, most reliable system for understanding and improving your organisation’s environmental performance and business sustainability.
It is the only Environmental Performance Management solution that takes standard business data and shows how your organisation impacts the environment. It lets you make business decisions on where to focus for maximum improvement and helps you engage with and manage your suppliers as part of that process.
When we say fast, we mean fast. You can get started immediately – a Skyline report that models your environmental impacts takes just 15 minutes. Without Sustain4, that could take you literally months or even years of monitoring and measurement to achieve. It can even benchmark you against others in your sector.
You can then go further, step by step refining the measurement and understanding of your direct impacts, and those of your suppliers. Up to six levels of granular business data can be uploaded, to generate a detailed environmental profile report. Further measurement can then be performed in order to better understand key areas of impact, including drilling down into the supply chain and getting suppliers to submit their own data into Sustain4, to further enhance your own measurement.
All of this data can be accessed through a powerful on-demand environmental dashboard, to allow on-going monitoring and allow executives to identify issues and drill-down rapidly to assess each situation.
Benchmark environmental data
How can we do this? Simple. Sustain4 incorporates the world’s most comprehensive database of 700 environmental impacts, gathered from thousands of organisations across more than 460 sectors worldwide. It uses this to create a model that converts financial and business data into environmental impacts.
How do you know it’s reliable? Well, the data is from TruCost, world leading environmental data owners and researchers. They provide the world's most comprehensive data on corporate environmental impacts:
- Used to evaluate environmental impacts for over $1 trillion worth of investment portfolios
- Basis for DEFRA’s reporting guidelines on environmental KPIs
- Source for Newsweek’s annual ‘Green Rankings’
- Source for S&P US Carbon Efficient Index
- Widely referenced by National Newspapers etc, worldwide.
What Sustain4 does
Sustain4 takes your organisation-specific financial and business data – things like industry sector, turnover, geography, operations, employees etc – and compares them with research data from thousands of organisations worldwide from 464 industry sectors of their impacts across 700 environmental indicators. By doing this Sustain4 produces an environmental impact report of your organisation across areas including:
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Natural resource usage
- Air pollutants
- Land and water pollutants
- Water consumption
- Waste production.
With Sustain4 you can drill down and refine your environmental reporting further by extending the reporting process into the supply chain, managing the collection and submission of supplier data and assessing its impact.
The benefits of Sustain4
From the moment of first use you are able to ‘See – Understand – Manage – Improve’ your environmental impact and your business performance. It gives instant insight into:
- the environmental impact of your business activities INCLUDING your supply chain
- actionable areas of focus to realize maximum business improvement in the shortest possible time
- how to manage financial risk from environmental regulation and natural resource dependency
- how to drive cost and efficiency improvements throughout your organisation