Our Services
Every organisation is on its own sustainability journey, and whether you are right at the start or a leader in your industry, ThinkSustain offers a variety of services to support you in achieving your sustainability goals.
We offer a roadmap to sustainability for organisations just starting out - or can support you with specific requirements as needed
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Assessment & Readiness
Understand what sustainability means to your business, where the risks and opportunities lie, and explore what a sustainable future might look like
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Strategy & Organisation
Agree your future vision and strategic approach for sustainability, establish the right metrics and targets, and decide the organisational approach that will take you there
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Plans & Policies
Develop plans, policies and initiatives to meet your sustainability strategy and achieve your sustainability aspirations
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Enablement & Impact
Deliver impact projects, programmes, change initiatives and training that help your organisation work towards or achieve its sustainability targets
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Reporting & Comms
Share externally the status and progress of sustainability factors and activities, to improve credibility, demonstrate authenticity, and encourage best practice sharing with others
Assessment & Readiness
Understand what sustainability means to your business, where the risks and opportunities lie, and explore what a sustainable future might look like
Sustainability Assessment & Impact - Understand how sustainable is your organisation, what impact does it have, and how well your sustainability initiatives are performing
Sustainability Risks & Opportunities - Evaluate the risks and opportunities your organisation faces now, and will need to respond to in a future sustainable and net zero economy
Carbon Footprint & Screening - Calculate the current direct carbon impact of your organisation, processes or products, as well as the broader impact created through your value chain
Certification Readiness - A gap analysis will show how ready your organisation is to achieving external certification such as ISO14001, and what areas need further development prior to certification
Compliance Review - Capture what legislative and supplier obligations your organisation needs to report on and deliver against
Strategy &
Organisation
Agree your future vision and strategic approach for sustainability, establish the right metrics and targets, and decide the organisational approach that will take you there
Sustainability Vision & Strategy – Map out the vision for sustainability at your organisation and the short and medium-terms focus areas that support that vision along with the broader organisational goals
Sustainability Target Framework – This brings together the measures, metrics, targets and KPIs used to capture progress and evaluate performance, and can also support external validation through alignment with programmes such as Science-based Targets
Sustainability Operating Model – Sustainability is typically implemented across an organisation; a Sustainability Operating Model will outline the expectations and responsibilities to be delivered through each function’s operational processes
Governance & Resourcing – Effective governance of sustainability is essential to provide ownership, accountability, and manage the allocation of resources to across the organisation
Plans & Policies
Develop plans, policies and initiatives to meet your sustainability strategy and achieve your sustainability aspirations
Sustainability Policy – A Sustainability Policy is an important step in driving sustainability across the organisation, setting out the overarching principles the organisation will follow and the framework under which it will deliver these
Net Zero Pathway – This strategic document sets out an organisation’s carbon footprint and net zero targets, and how it will work towards achieving those, typically over a multi-decade programme
Carbon Reduction Plans – Carbon Reduction Plans are one of the most common sustainability plans, and set out an organisation’s net zero targets along with the steps it needs to take to achieve them
Sustainability Improvement Plans – Various plans can be developed to support an organisation’s strategic focus areas, KPIs and targets, including:
Waste Reduction Plan
Resource Management & Circular Economy
Diversity & Inclusion Plan
Societal Impact Plan
Enablement & Impact
Deliver impact projects, programmes and change initiatives that help your organisation work towards or achieve its sustainability targets
Infrastructure Improvements – Reduce the direct impact, encourage indirect impact reductions, and reduce or mitigate sustainability risks
Energy Efficiency Improvements - Reviewing energy usage across an organisation, and identifying opportunities to reduce energy costs and emissions
Customer & Supplier Engagement – Collaborating with suppliers and customers is essential to reduce an organisation’s indirect environmental and societal impacts
New Propositions & Business Models – Improve competitive position and gain access to new markets through the development of new propositions and business models
Innovation & R&D – New technologies and other innovations can create opportunities to accelerate improvements in sustainability
Employee Engagement – Improving awareness, training and carbon literacy, and implementing motivational programmes can encourage all staff to improve sustainability across an organisation
Data & Systems – Effective data management is essential to evaluating progress and supporting the data collection and analysis involved in external reporting requirements
Certification – External certification of sustainability principles, processes and progress (eg. ISO14001 and B-Corp), can be a competitive differentiator, or requirement for new business
Reporting & Comms
Share externally the status and progress of sustainability factors and activities, to improve credibility, demonstrate authenticity, and encourage best practice sharing with others
Reporting Framework – Sustainability reporting requirements are increasing for many industries, including regulatory, voluntary, and value chain reporting, and a framework allows these to be managed in an efficient, scalable, and impactful manner
Report Production – Internal reports can be produced to support board meetings and task forces,
Compliance - External compliance services include SECR, ESOS and PPN06/21
External Disclosure - Participation in external disclosure programmes such as CDP and GRESB can provide credibility around sustainability progress and plans, as well as strength relationships with customers, shareholders and other stakeholders
Brand & Marketing – Sustainability plays a role in many organisations’ brand strategies, but should be implemented with authenticity, encourage collaboration, and avoid greenwashing
External Validation – External validation of an organisation’s intent or progress can be obtained through global campaigns such as Race to Zero, along with many industry specific programmes and membership groups
