Scope 5 Helps Tell Your Sustainability Story

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Scope 5 Helps Tell Your Sustainability Story

A killer story connects both on an intellectual level, and an emotional level.

A killer story is full of visual and sense-based detail.

A killer story is persuasive and memorable.

Why Storytelling Matters

Ever go a day without sharing a story? You won’t be able to talk to your friends or tell your family how your day went.

Sound impossible? That’s because it probably is. People are hardwired to be social beings, and part of that is our need to communicate with one another.

If storytelling is integrated into our everyday routine, why do we seldom use stories in our presentations? Because when addressing an audience, we tend to focus on the important points we need to convey. We concentrate on information that’s crucial to the outcome we want. Usually, this involves data or business model explanation.

Occasionally, we may display a graph.

Despite all this, we tend to leave out something that seems just as vital. Storytelling.

A Tale as Old as TED

If you review the list of the most viewed TED Talks, you’ll see each of them has a story integrated into the discussion.

Our brains love a good story that makes us feel something…something successful TED presenters have capitalized on.

A successful presentation goes beyond what your slides look like. What really matters is the heart of what you’re trying to say. In this way, stories are used in business all the time—in case studies, press releases, direct marketing, testimonials, sales brochures, web copy and even instruction manuals. Like executives, marketers and sales leaders, sustainability practitioners can use storytelling too.

The real challenge is turning data into a narrative that packs an emotional punch.

Communicating Sustainability Initiatives

Gone is the day when we used only alphanumeric approaches to tell a great story.

While words, tables, and general data measurements matter, today stakeholders expect more visual and compelling elements in support of storytelling.

As a sustainability practitioner, there are several ways to cut through the clutter and make your story stand out for stakeholders, whether internal or external.

First, visuals pack punch because these provide a tangible measure of success. Areas requiring attention are spotted quickly. For example, the inclusion of graphs and charts can communicate key points faster and more clearly than words or tables.

Next, developing a brand identity for your sustainability efforts can draw attention to and spark interest among stakeholders to learn more. Benefits are recruitment and retention, employee engagement and customer loyalty.

High profile companies doing this well are Patagonia, Nike, and Unilever.

Technology helps too. As a leading sustainability data management and reporting solution, Scope 5 has an advanced capability called Storyboarding that helps you tell your organization’s story.

How Scope 5 Helps With Storytelling

Scope 5 software greatly simplifies the process of communicating the progress of your sustainability initiative with others.

Consider these three key areas that distinguish Scope 5:

  • Report progress. Visualizing your data in graphs and charts can help you instantly share progress with teammates, initiative sponsors, company executives and external stakeholders.
  • Analyze performance. Scope 5 turns data into insights so you can compare performance and spot outliers as a rapid way to convey why team and organization should focus in identified areas.
  • Share with stakeholders. With Scope 5 storyboarding capability, sustainability practitioners can share privately or publicly key visuals that showcase transparency and progress towards goals.

Results can be profound.

  • Your story is clearly communicated.
  • Your stakeholders get the information they need.
  • Your initiative continues to build engagement and momentum.

Scope 5 Case Study: City of Bellevue

City of Bellevue uses Scope 5 to share progress on a range of environmental areas. See how the city tells its sustainability story, visit City of Bellevue Environmental Stewardship by the Numbers.

Here are some highlights:

Though municipal emissions are less than 1% of total community emissions, city operations add tens of thousands of metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere each year. Since 2011, the city has saved over 7,000 metric tons of CO2 cumulatively.

Beyond reducing Bellevue’s footprint, the city plays a role in designing walkable neighborhoods, encouraging energy-efficient buildings, and requiring environmentally responsible growth. The city has developed a list of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor progress, which is openly and transparently shared with citizens.

All data is rendered in beautiful, easy-to-follow visuals that help tell the city’s sustainability story.

Learn More

If you’d like to learn more about how Scope 5 can help you advance your sustainability initiatives, watch our short demo.

We love learning how we can help advance your sustainability story. Reach out anytime to start a conversation.

Certified B Corporations Redefine Success in Business

“The B Corp movement is one of the most important of our lifetime, built on the simple fact that business impacts and serves more than just shareholders—it has an equal responsibility to the community and to the planet.”  ~Rose Marcario, CEO of Patagonia

Next month Toronto is hosting the annual B Corporation Champions Retreat event, October 3-5, 2017. The gathering is a great opportunity for people committed to using business as a force for good to come together, exchange ideas and learn from one another.

B Corps Are A Force for Good

By way of background, a B Corporation is a business entity built to serve stakeholders, not just shareholder considerations. Well-known consumer brands like Patagonia, Dansko and Ben & Jerry’s are B Corps.

These companies, and others like them big and small, see value in aligning their organization with client, community, employee and environmental interests. Currently, there are 2,251 companies in more than 50 countries.

Rigorous Standards

Becoming a B Corp means holding oneself accountable to rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

Beyond Certification

Certified B Corps are committed to making a difference, but knowing where to spend time for greatest impact can be challenging. The task of determining which sustainability metrics you should track is one of the most important issues.

Basic activities that generate emissions are obvious places to start.

But the real question is which one of these metrics, or perhaps others, are “right” for your organization? For example, does a metric represent a significant portion of environmental impact, and, if so, is there anything you can do to reduce usage or change activity?

Sustainability Software Can Help

The right kind of cloud-based application can greatly simplify sustainability reporting for B Corps. Often the solution starts by solving problems with data. For example, the right sustainability software enables multiple users to work on a coherent data set, provides automatic unit conversion, warns of outliers and missing or duplicate data, and provides an audit trail.

More advanced cloud-based software like Scope 5 and others support dynamic and unanticipated data relationships, facilitates in-depth and flexible analysis of the data, makes it easy to generate many different charts and reports, and automates data collection.

Traditional approaches rely on piles of spreadsheets that require hundreds, if not thousands of hours to compile and organize – time better spent elsewhere. Learn more by reading my article, 5 Myths About Sustainability Software Every CSO Should Know.

When ROI Takes-off

Sustainability reporting is here to stay, but knowing how it impacts your bottom-line is a critical data point. Intangible value gets created by enhancing innovation leadership and brand reputation, but ROI skyrockets when sustainability reporting software informs business decisions.

For example, Scope 5 helped a client streamline data collection, and inventory and track improvement. After reducing electricity costs at one site, the company embarked on an initiative to systematically reduce costs across all manufacturing sites. This grew into a broader strategy for improving resource energy management that included water and waste.

The company has saved over $10 million in operating expenses and is poised to save even more while making its business less susceptible to risk. Accrued savings are improving net margins and net revenue by eliminating wasted resource cost. Local employees are proud of providing environmental and social benefits to their communities.

Ready to Do Our Part

Becoming a B Corp shows a commitment to customers, workers, and surrounding community. Leaders like Patagonia, Dansko and Ben & Jerry’s focus on long-term value creation and sustainability in economic and social practice. Sustainability reporting software plays a vital role supporting this mission.

As an expert in turning sustainability data into outcomes that matter, Scope 5 is committed to helping B Corps by sharing best practices learned from working with leading companies and organizations. Whether you are looking to get started or advance to the next level, Scope 5 can help.

This is our way of investing in you so that together we can ensure a sustainable future. Let’s start a conversation. Email us at info@scope5.com.

Sustainability Reporting: Tracking Your Critical Metrics

Determining which ESG metrics an organization should track is one of the most important issues facing practitioners today.

The breadth of metrics is large. Basic activities that generate emissions are obvious places to start. Typical examples are electricity, stationary combustion, mobile combustion, and fugitive emissions.

But the real question is which one of these metrics, or perhaps others, is “right” for your organization? Does a metric represent a significant portion of environmental impact, and, if so, is there anything you can do to reduce usage or change activity?

For example, a hospital may use desflurane as an anesthetic for surgeries and procedures. Replacing desflurane with an eco-friendly substitute will lower greenhouse gas. But if your operation uses water as a major product ingredient, then it may be hard to materially reduce water use. And you likely can’t change the source or corresponding emissions if it’s supplied by a local authority.

Reporting is Evolving

Despite record reporting submissions to organizations like Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Global Resource Institute (GRI), and more companies publishing sustainability reports, the practice of sustainability reporting remains relatively nascent.

Readers of corporate sustainability reports want to see companies provide direct and useful information about their sustainability impacts and what actions are being taken. A common miss is how key sustainability impacts are addressed in operations.

For example, although many may report onsite fuel, corporate fleets, business travel, energy purchased from utilities, and even employee commutes, they often don’t include metrics on water, waste, procurement, toxins, or supply chain impacts because those categories are not required under many reporting schemes.

But these may contribute significantly to an organization’s environmental footprint.

“Metrics” Should Drive The “Report”

Metrics-driven transparency can help businesses both internally and externally. Externally, reporting sustainability metrics will help to increase transparency for stakeholders. Internally, tracking and reporting sustainability metrics ensures results.

Whether for public consumption or not, tracking the “right” metrics is a way to achieve cost savings and reduce environmental impact. They reveal information on poorly functioning products and systems so steps can be taken to calibrate or redesign. Otherwise, companies will lack the sustainability data they need to evaluate and improve their practices.

Shift from Disclosure to Performance – A Positive Development

Although replete with pitfalls and challenges, sustainability professionals often focus on data collection at the expense of structural improvements in performance.

This brings us to the doorstep of why materiality matters.

A Critical Link for ESG Strategy

The issue of materiality is central to determining which sustainability metrics are prioritized.

As you can imagine, this cuts to the core question of what to report, and how. Determining which metrics are material and which aren’t requires a stakeholder engagement process to gather insight on the relative importance of specific environmental issues.

A common sustainability reporting pitfall is having incorrect ESG data for emissions and resource consumption or approaching sustainability communications as a public relations exercise. The issues identified as material may touch every aspect of a company’s business model or may have gone unnoticed. They are often valuable inputs to strategic planning, operational management, and capital investment decisions.

Let’s Use Carbon to Illustrate Materiality

Many companies already report on carbon management because they believe climate change may be an important issue to their stakeholders. Capturing quantitative stakeholder feedback on carbon can validate or change that reporting strategy, but the value-add is realized when the carbon data is viewed through operational and financial perspectives.

For example, analyzing carbon in the context of production efficiency and EBITDA helps a company understand how its business model would be affected by a price on carbon. If the carbon footprint of a production facility or product is a significant market driver, then the company can assess its risk-to-hold value of its current assets, and inform business and financial planning, such as where to best allocate its OPEX budget towards operational improvements, or its CAPEX towards R&D and innovation.

In this example, a rich data set on stakeholder perspectives further informs investment decisions that are based on the carbon impact of competing products. It’s easy to see how this data can affect the approach to risk management, operational management systems, product development, R&D, marketing and stakeholder communications.

ESG Reporting Software That Tracks Your Metrics

Since the materiality of sustainability metrics varies by company or organization, having a tool that can support your business and process is a must-have.

Flexibility and configuration are critical. With a cloud-based reporting application, new categories of data can be added and can be configured with detailed parameters around each category in a manner that supports specific business processes. This exercise should not require a team of experts to customize the application but should be doable with a few clicks, by any authorized user.

For example, a cloud-based application can give the data provider flexibility in data entry, while simultaneously restricting users to a common format, such as requiring monthly data rather than annual.

When the data is resident in a relational database and accessible through a quality application, users with different needs and interests can chart one variable as a function of another. The result is fine-grain analytics that supports critical business decision-making.

For example, a user might decide to chart their facility’s usage relative to other facilities. If the application stores the area of each facility, that user can chart energy per square foot for each facility. Such a chart reveals facilities that are using much more energy per square foot than the average (or much less). This leads to energy and cost savings.

Conclusion

The importance of using materiality to drive corporate sustainability strategy is growing. Investors demand more disclosure. Global reporting frameworks like GRI include guidance on assessing materiality. There are no “right” or “wrong” sustainability metrics, only those that make the case to senior management on why and how to report sustainability and other non-financial data that have a direct impact on the business. Software tools like Scope 5 can help you track the metrics that matter, whatever they are.

5 Myths About Sustainability Software Every CSO Should Know

Every now and then we receive a well-intended, but naïve inquiry from a company or organization looking for us to solve every part of their sustainability reporting challenge.

Many in this group are on a Quixote-like quest for a “magic button” to produce a glossy Corporate Sustainability Report (CSR) with one push of a finger, a polished ‘A-list’ CDP report with the next push and a report addressing each of the hundreds of GRI indicators with the third push. While we have helped many clients with this process overall, we are sad to report no such button exists.

But these experiences inspired us to share five myths about sustainability software that every practitioner should know as they drive their agenda across the organization.

Myth #1: A Single Piece of Software Can Solve Everything

No, it can’t. There are multiple steps, each requiring different tools.

The first step is collecting the numbers that will serve as the basis for any report. The second is sorting, organizing and manipulating those numbers to produce quantitative results. After the quantitative results are available, attention turns to analyzing the results, drawing conclusions, making decisions and then producing the narrative to accompany the numbers (the qualitative results).

The final step is the presentation of the report. This last step varies in complexity depending on the audience. For a CDP report, the format is quite straightforward and there is little room for aesthetics. For a public facing glossy CSR report, aesthetics can be everything.

The first few steps are a “geek” exercise, the later steps – a marketing exercise.

Let’s dig into the “geek” part.

The right kind of cloud-based application greatly simplifies sustainability reporting by solving problems with data. For example, the right sustainability software enables multiple users to work on a coherent data set, provides automatic unit conversion, warns of outliers and missing or duplicate data, and provides an audit trail.

More advanced software like Scope 5 support dynamic and unanticipated data relationships, facilitates in-depth and flexible analysis of the data, makes it easy to generate many different charts and reports, and automates data collection.

Traditional approaches rely on piles of spreadsheets that require hundreds, if not thousands of hours to compile and organize – time better spent elsewhere.

Now, let’s shift to reporting.

Reporting authorities like CDP or Global Resource Initiative (GRI) specify data and format. Sustainability software tools like Scope 5 support these processes with knowledge base resources that make submission hassle-free.

By comparison, company-issued corporate sustainability reports are typically produced by marketing. Scope 5 supports their efforts with capabilities that allow for exporting and formatting of charts and graphs.

Myth #2: It’s A Cost We Can’t Afford Right Now

If an initiative cannot be justified from a strategic, financial, operational, marketing, or employee perspective, don’t do it. But in almost every corner of an organization, there is a fundamental business argument for being more sustainable. Making sustained organization-wide progress without the use of sustainability software is a practical impossibility.

Another way to put cost into context is sustainability can be a competitive differentiator in good times. In lean times, it’s a defensive strategy. In hard times, it may determine your survival.

Myth #3: Reporting Software Requires Lots of Staff

A related myth is that sustainability reporting efforts require a big centralized staff. In fact, we have found the opposite to be true. In many large, leading companies the core sustainability team size ranges between one and four employees.

The role of these groups is to work with the various functions across the organization and with senior executives, to develop a strategy, formulate goals, coordinate activities and report progress. Over time, there may not even be a need for such a group because sustainability gets integrated into every facet of operations and products.

But trying to have a company-wide impact without the use of sustainability software as an enabler and facilitator is a recipe for costly one-off consulting, or a “heavy lift” requiring hundreds, if not thousands of employee hours.

A final word of caution: beware of outsourcing critical sustainability work to consultants. Sustainability issues should be integrated into core capabilities.

Myth #4: It’s Just for Big Companies

We can tell you without hesitation that the size of the company makes little difference. In fact, smaller companies have an advantage because their competitiveness often depends on being lean, resourceful and nimble, which sustainability enables.

Bigger companies do have an advantage when it comes to influencing sustainability with their supply chains as Walmart and Unilever do.

But just because you may work as a smaller company doesn’t mean sustainability reporting software is “too big” for your needs.

Myth #5: Not Making Things Means Supply Chain isn’t Important

False.

Some companies claim that because they don’t make things and they don’t buy much, they don’t have much of a carbon footprint. They may claim their products don’t consume much energy, so Scope 3 environmental impacts are negligible.

Walmart is a prime example of a company that doesn’t make things, yet is developing an index for thousands of suppliers to measure the carbon impact from the things they sell to the company. Let’s unpack why this is important for Walmart.

According to Matt Kistler, WalMart’s Senior Vice President of Sustainability, 88 percent of the company’s environmental footprint is in its supply chain, and only 12 percent is under its direct control. If the company is going to achieve its goal of carbon neutrality, it needs to get reductions from its supply chain.

In another example, large software or consulting companies spend billions of dollars on stuff like computers, office supplies, and utilities. Air travel may be a big contributor too. If a company aspires to be a leader in sustainability, then it can’t ignore supply chain because the impact of these on sustainability goals are significant.

Not Debunking These Myths Leaves Money on the Table

While sustainability software reporting isn’t a panacea, it is a must-have for helping companies and organizations of all sizes pursue environmental sustainability initiatives.

Sustainability offers innovative firms opportunities for both top and bottom-line benefits. For example, Unilever’s Sustainable Living Brands grew 50% faster than the rest of the business.

Levi’s waterless jeans have saved 1 billion liters of water to date, and an estimated $1.6 million in cost of goods sold.

Upstarts like Organic Valley produces biodiesel from sunflower crops to fuel its trucks and tractors.

Since you can’t improve what you don’t measure, sustainability reporting software is a key ingredient, whether just getting started, or looking to get to the next level. As a way of helping break down barriers, we hope you found this article on debunking common myths useful.

What is the ROI of Sustainability Reporting Software

Sustainability reporting has become a common practice. Once the province of a few unusually green or community-oriented companies, sustainability disclosure is now a best practice employed by companies worldwide. Today 95% of the Global 250 issue sustainability reports.

Firms continuously seek new ways to improve performance, protect reputational assets, and win stakeholder trust. Benefits like increased efficiency and waste reduction feature prominently. In a 2012 global survey of sustainability reporters, 88% indicated that reporting helped make their organizations’ decision-making processes more efficient.

Sustainability reporting is here to stay. But how does it impact your bottom line?

Sustainability Reporting Software Improves Productivity

Traditional approaches to sustainability data management complicate greenhouse gas reporting and submission to reporting organizations like Carbon Disclosure Project and Global Reporting Initiative.

Consider this typical scenario:

A global organization may operate hundreds of facilities around the world. If the company is reporting greenhouse gas emissions each year, the director of sustainability or project leader needs to track usage of electricity and various fuels at each facility, then multiply those numbers by some emissions factor, which may be location-specific.

Often the process starts with a spreadsheet. Managers worldwide are asked to fill out a copy of the spreadsheet for their facility. Cost data may be required too. As responses trickle in, the challenges mount.

Revised spreadsheets are received from multiple facilities containing corrected or previously missing data. Other respondents may have written comments into cells requiring review and deletion. Some data appears in units not anticipated.

Other responses may appear so inconsistent that a mistake is assumed. Some entries appear duplicative—but which one is correct? Some respondents provide cost data, and others don’t. Some provide it in USD, others in various foreign currencies.

After hundreds, if not thousands of collective hours, a pile of corrected spreadsheets exists sufficient for a specific report like CDP, but the data can be used for little else.

For example, perhaps a lot of money is being spent on fuel. How is the cost distributed across the facilities? Is it evenly distributed? Are there facilities at which the cost per unit fuel is very high or very low? Is there an audit trail? How reliable is this data? Did everyone provide the numbers requested? Or were some missing? Fine-grain analytics are elusive because the pile of spreadsheets was combined with one purpose in mind.

“Smart” Cloud-based Sustainability Software Solves This Problem

Many of the problems described trace their roots back to the management task of dealing with multiple copies of the same spreadsheet. A cloud-based reporting solution like Scope 5 greatly simplifies efforts, saving valuable time and making the organization more productive in many ways:

Time Savings

With a cloud-based sustainability reporting application, there’s no need to email spreadsheets around. Each ‘data provider’ logs in to the application and enters their data. Because a single database underlies the application, the sustainability data is always up to date and coherent. No more sending spreadsheets back and forth and trying to combine many into one.

Data Quality

Maintaining multiple spreadsheets with multiple users and multiple data sources is error-prone. Data must be copied and pasted. Duplicates must be identified. The right application incorporates error checking and warns of outlying, missing, or duplicate data. Unit conversion is built-in. The application quantifies the quality of the data so that the user can decide whether he or she can be confident in the data.

Audit Trail

The application provides an audit trail. Since each user logs in under his or her credentials, the application ‘knows’ exactly who created or updated each data record and when. An audit trail should also allow users to upload files or images with each record to substantiate the data.

Charting, Reporting, and Analyzing

Data in spreadsheets is relatively static. The data is difficult, if not impossible, to mine for insight. But data resident in a relational database and accessible through a quality application, ‘come to life.’ Users with different needs and interests can chart one variable as a function of another. Data is segmented and visualized in ways that reveal key insights.

Flexibility and Configuration

With a cloud-based reporting software like Scope 5, the administrator can add categories of sustainability data and can configure the detailed parameters around each category in a manner that supports specific business processes. This exercise does not require a team of experts to customize the application at significant cost but should be doable with a few clicks, by any authorized user.

Automated Data Collection

A cloud-based application can automate the tedious process of data collection. In many cases, data can be periodically retrieved electronically from other data stores, such as online utility accounts or other systems that are already part of an organization’s infrastructure. If this isn’t an option, data can be imported from third-party spreadsheets in varying formats.

ROI Skyrockets When Sustainability Reporting Software Informs Business Decisions

Cloud-based sustainability reporting software can deliver ROI behind intangibles like innovation leadership and brand reputation. These reporting solutions can help boost performance across supply chain management as well as operations. This example illustrates how Scope 5 helped a global organization reveal waste and take action that saved money and boosted operational resiliency.

The company is an industry-leading provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people to create, leverage, experience, and preserve data. The company’s products are marketed under well-known named brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers, and consumers.

Like many others fits and starts characterized this organizations’ early approach to sustainability reporting. One year there was a budget for initiatives. The next year there wasn’t. Cost savings on individual projects got airtime but missed bigger payoffs that come from linking progress across departmental boundaries.

The company chose Scope 5 to streamline data collection, and to inventory and track improvement. Work started with electricity. After reducing electricity costs at one site, the company embarked on an initiative to systematically reduce costs across all manufacturing sites in Asia-Pacific and the United States. This grew into a broader strategy for improving resource energy management that included water and waste.

The company has saved over $10 million in operating expenses and is poised to save even more while making its business less susceptible to risk. Accrued savings are improving net margins and net revenue by eliminating wasted resource cost, and local employees are proud of providing environmental and social benefits to their communities.

Conclusion

Many companies continue to use spreadsheets as the backbone of their sustainability reporting initiative. The work of tracking and reporting such data is tedious and error-prone. Cloud-based sustainability reporting software like Scope 5 makes this work far easier and more accurate. In addition to saving time and money, these reporting applications increase the quality of the sustainability data and can surface powerful insights.

And as the case study shows, tools like this can deliver return on investment that boost the bottom-line and improve competitive position.

Support ‘We Are Still In’ to Help Ensure a Sustainable Future

Support 'We Are Still In' to Help Ensure a Sustainable Future

The blogosphere is atwitter about the U.S. Administration’s announcement that “We’re getting out” of the Paris Climate Accord, justifiably so.

The groundswell of commitments to continue to pursue emissions reductions despite the Administration’s decision to pull out of the agreement has been impressive.

According to We Are Still In, more than 1,200 U.S. governors, mayors, businesses (Scope 5 included), investors, and colleges and universities declared their intent to continue to ensure the U.S. remains a global leader in reducing carbon emissions.

Our Opportunity to Step Up

This sends a strong signal to the international community. Each signatory is making a commitment to deliver concrete emissions reductions that will help meet America’s emissions pledge under the Paris agreement.

This group of leaders in businesses, states, cities, colleges, and universities represents a sizable percentage of the U.S. economy. According to We Are Still In, business and investor signatories account for a total annual revenue of $1.4 trillion and include over 20 Fortune 500 companies like Apple, eBay, Gap Inc., Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Nike.

292 US Climate Mayors have also committed to upholding Paris Climate Agreement goals for their cities. Read more here.

Whether a signatory or not, the best way to ensure the U.S. remains at the forefront of carbon emissions reduction is by identifying what you and your organization can do, then taking action.

Leadership Examples Aplenty

Many companies and organizations are making crucial progress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by producing less waste, saving money and becoming less susceptible to risk — inspiring results.

For example, Scope 5 clients include multiple Fortune 250s, consulting firms like CH2M, industry leaders like Expeditors and Virginia Mason, and various local governments. Their stories are below:

In this GreenBiz article, CH2M shares how they helped a technology client with Scope 5 save $10 million, improving margins and revenue by eliminating wasted resource cost.

Healthcare provider Virginia Mason is another example. The medical center’s award-winning sustainability program puts it among elite health care organizations. Discover why here.

Global logistics expert Expeditors launched a sustainability tracking strategy to help cut energy use, produce less waste, and save money. Read their Sustainability Report and Scope 5 case study.

Municipalities like City of Bellevue and Mercer Island in Washington State’s King County track progress on key environmental metrics. More here.

Ready to Do Our Part

As an expert in turning sustainability data into outcomes that matter, Scope 5 helps these organizations and others like them improve economic and environmental impacts.

This group understands that you can’t improve what you don’t measure. Only then are opportunities to reduce electricity, lighting, fuel, and waste quickly discovered and targeted action taken.

For those looking to advance their sustainability initiative, Scope 5 is committed to sharing best practices learned from working with leading companies and organizations. Whether you are looking to get started or advance to the next level, Scope 5 can help.

This is our way of investing in you so that together we can ensure a sustainable future. Let’s start a conversation. Email us at info@scope5.com.