This document outlines the key steps for establishing a sustainable management structure within an organization. It recommends consolidating decision making processes, engaging executive leadership and risk committees, and aligning project selection criteria with sustainability. It also emphasizes establishing monitoring processes for ongoing projects, defining external reporting goals, and selecting leading metrics for measurements. Following these steps can help organizations achieve benefits like revenue growth, enhanced risk management, access to new sources of capital, and cost savings.

1. SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
Structure
Corporate
Governance
Structure
Standards
(UN PRI,
Equator
Principles)
Consolidate
Decision
Making
Processes
Engage
Risk
Committees
Engage
Executive
Leadership
Align With
Project
Selection
Criteria Have
Functional
Go / No Go
Process In
Place
Lessons
Learned
Procedure
For No Gos
Engage Risk
Management
Leadership
During M&E
Establish
Steering
Committee For
Internal
Reporting
Implement
Monitoring
Process For
Ongoing
Projects
Define
External
Reporting
Goals And
Agenda
Manage
External
Reporting
Agency
Define Leading
Metrics And Tool
Box For Ad Hoc
Measurements
STEP
1 STEP
2
STEP
4
STEP
3
STEP
5
WHAT TO EXPECT
BENEFITS KEY SUCCESS
FACTORS
Revenue growth by developing
new products and markets and by
attracting new
social-environmental businesses
Start simple,
but start!
Commitment from
upper management
Close cooperation
with risk management
Lead by example:
get employees involved
Transparency
Enhanced risk management
through alternative project
evaluation
Access to both public and
private capital in assisting the
organization in meeting its stock
exchange listing requirements
Cost savings and efficiency
through better-managed
organizations
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