12.1. Sustainability Alignment Factors

Our governance approach starts with sustainability alignment factors. These are business objectives that an organization strives to achieve through its sustainability initiatives. Suitable factors vary from business to business according to their unique objectives. Focusing attention and metrics around critical alignment factors helps businesses get their heads around how they respond to the pressure to be more sustainable.

Organizations need to arrive at sustainability alignment factors that are meaningful within their industry and then determine how they are going to measure these sustainability alignment factors. Plenty of data, ideas, and opinions exist to start the formulations. But rather than getting ...

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