WWF - For a living planet

Get your business involved

Here are a few pointers on how businesses can improve their environmental performance:

• Understand where environmental impacts across the business are at their greatest. What natural resources are being used, where do they come from, and where is the main carbon footprint? The biggest impacts are often within the supply chain and at the consumer use of products.
• Prioritise green efforts in alignment with where there is greatest impact and decide where the company’s responsibilities start and end. How can goods and services be better produced, how can those in the supply chain be engaged, what alternative sourcing arrangements can be made, and how can customers be engaged to use products more responsibly (for example, using less hot water with home cleaning products)?
• Carbon management is under much scrutiny, so prioritise energy savings above all else. WWF’s suggested order of priorities is: 1) avoid, 2) reduce, 3) offset the irreducible carbon emissions (as a last resort) to a Gold Standard offset project.
• In a more visionary sense, what are the opportunities to shift towards a greener business model? Moving from product sales to the provision of services can be a key business differentiator, as well as a win for the environment. For example, services around car clubs and sharing schemes are growing as an alternative to the more traditional and impactful practice of car ownership.
• There are increasing opportunities for companies to look beyond their own environmental performance and to start playing a more proactive role in shaping the business world around them. Businesses on the front foot that are not just reacting to emerging trends but seeking to steer the future interests of their staff, customers and investors and to shape upcoming regulation will stay ahead of the game and be in a better position to build businesses that last.

Join our One in Five challenge

WWF's One Planet Mobility campaign will challenge business to cut one in five flights. The campaign will help business to do so by encouraging the greater use of low-carbon transport where appropriate and promoting the use of videoconferencing.

Watch a film exploring a new report and WWF's One in Five challenge.

Join our Existing Homes Alliance

The Existing Homes Alliance, chaired by WWF-UK, is a coalition of housing and environmental organisations, businesses and government agencies that is calling for concerted action to reduce the environmental impact of the UK's existing homes.
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Join the Existing Homes Alliance

Join our One Planet Leader training programme

One Planet Leaders is a sustainability programme that enables business managers and senior executives to explore, challenge and apply the latest thinking on sustainable business practice.

It draws on WWF’s long experience of solutions-driven business partnerships and offers a way to build staff competence and transform day-to-day operations into sustainable business models.