The document discusses performance frameworks for sustainability. It emphasizes matching sustainability efforts to business objectives. The presentation identifies criteria for critical sustainability metrics that should be used by businesses. It also discusses maturity models for sustainability and moving from an ad-hoc, grassroots approach to a strategic, systematic process embedded in business culture and operations. Key takeaways are to prioritize sustainability efforts based on relevance to business objectives and benefits.

1. Performance Framework
for Sustainability
Peter Milhofer and Flora Moon
September, 2017
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2. Who We Are /Format
• Peter Milhofer
• Flora Moon
• Presentation and discussion
• Please submit your questions – we will get
to as many as we can during our webinar
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3. Today’s Webinar Takeaways
• Emphasize the importance of matching
sustainability efforts to business
objectives
• Discuss broader business objectives
that should be supported by
sustainability performance
• Identify criteria for a few critical metrics
that business should be using
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4. Performance Background
Sustainability
Reporting
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5. Current State Oil & Gas
Industries
• Some of the first companies to do
sustainability monitoring and reporting
• Complying with a large range of regulatory
requirements
• Improved safety performance over last 20
years – linked to business objectives
• Performance and objectives (beyond
compliance) in other areas is very varied
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6. Sustainability & Performance
Correlation between organizational capability
and sustainability performance ability
– Sustainability performance requires
capabilities often found outside of operations
– HES or social performance information is used
to make business decisions
– Performance measurement data is readily
available in analyzable forms
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7. Who sets the business
objectives?
• Shareholders
• Board of directors / management
• Regulators and government bodies
• Non governmental organisations (NGOs)
• Local communities and the public at large
• The media
• Standard setters such as SASB, GRI and
SDGs
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8. What Should We Stop
Doing?
• Trying to do everything
• Spending time on false accuracy
• Focusing on low risk activity
• Being defensive
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9. What Should We Continue to
Do?
• Comply with regulation
• Measure performance
• Manage performance
• Communicate performance externally
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10. What More Should We Do?
• Prioritise based on relevance
• Identify desired business benefit(s)
• Clearer objectives to define success
• Manage any conflicting objectives
• Externally communicate:
– Objectives and rationale
– Performance achieved
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11. Pre-compliance
Disorganized
Grassroots
Adhoc
Functional
Repeatable
Strategic
Systematic,
procedure
based
Purpose
Cultural,
Ingrained in
system
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Sustainability Maturity Model
Source: 184447• Performance Framework for Evolving Sustainability Strategies• Flora Moon & Sophie Theys
A transformational journey
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12. Maturity level Poll
• Purpose – cultural, ingrained in business
• Strategic – systemic, procedure based
• Functional - repeatable
• Grassroots - adhoc
• Pre-Compiance - disorganized
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13. Performance and Maturity
Strategy
Roadmap
Outcomes
Impact
Objectives
Inputs
Actions
Outputs
Capability
Baseline
Levels of Maturity
Source: 184447• Performance Framework for Evolving Sustainability Strategies• Flora Moon & Sophie Theys
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14. Today’s Webinar Takeaways
• Emphasize the importance of matching
sustainability efforts to business
objectives
• Discuss broader business objectives that
should be supported by sustainability
performance
• Identify criteria for a few critical metrics
that business should be using
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15. Is Water a critical metric?
• A range of factors need to be considered to
determine whether a metric is sensitive – for
example:
• Local availability/scarcity
• Type of use – consumed, contaminated or
returned
• Volume used
• Any other local impacts of use
• It is ultimately a judgement call - not a set of
rules
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16. Next Steps
• Let us know if you’d like to explore this
topic further
• peter@milhouser.net
• floramoon@expressworks.com
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17. Questions?
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