Sustainability Toolkit

SBC guides

SBC’s guides are designed for anyone responsible for driving forward sustainability within a business, including not only those with a background in sustainability, but also people and culture professionals, procurement leads, and risk managers. Some of the more recent guides, written by thinkstep-ANZ and Kaitaiki Collective in partnership with SBC, explain important sustainability topics for businesses. Grounded in te ao Māori, they cover a variety of environmental, social and governance topics to help you make progress on these areas.

SBC Guide: Human rights

Respecting human rights is not only the right thing to do – it’s also good for business. Human rights are based on the premise that all people have the right […]

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SBC Guide: Nature

Healthy people, healthy businesses and a healthy planet all rely on thriving nature. Over half of the world’s economic output ($44 trillion of economic value), and many Aotearoa New Zealand […]

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SBC Guide: Measure, reduce and report your carbon footprint

Measuring your organisation’s carbon footprint feeds into the whakapapa of your business, helping you and your team plan the impact your organisation will have on generations to come. In this […]

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SBC Guide: Adapting to climate change (including disclosures)

Climate change poses operational and financial risks. For example, extreme weather events like floods may disrupt operations (a business risk) and make a building uninsurable (a financial risk). It can […]

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SBC Guide: Sustainability strategy and plans

Businesses need a strategy to be successful – and the same goes for sustainability efforts. Having a sustainability strategy helps you focus your efforts, identify what you’re already doing well, […]

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SBC Guide: The business case for sustainability

Sustainable businesses create value in the short and long term – economically, environmentally and socially. So how do you get your stakeholders on board? In this new SBC Guide, we outline […]

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External Resources

To make it easy for members to access best practice and thought leadership from around the globe, SBC has compiled a collection of external resources covering key sustainability topics.

Strategy Development

Z Energy’s Community and Sustainability Strategy 2020 showcases its goals, desired outcomes and key actions, and is supported by this creative narrative.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

This 2022 report from JBWere looks at the relationship between corporates and community sectors, shedding light on the spectrum of voluntary action, CSR and sustainability.

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Employee Commute Survey

Member template for an employee commuting survey to understand how staff travel to work, enabling the calculation of associated emissions and emission reduction efforts.

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5 Tips to Tell Your Sustainability Story Using Content Marketing

(The Sustainable Agency) We’ve discussed why content marketing is beneficial for sustainable brands, and we’ve looked at some sustainable brands who are doing content marketing right. In this article, we […]

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How to tell your sustainability story

(NZTE) Consumers increasingly seek information about a business’s sustainability performance. Being able to communicate your values and efforts lets you take control of the narrative, generating brand loyalty and helping […]

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Communicating Sustainability – Achieving effective and truthful communication

(Nordic Sustainability) How you communicate your sustainability initiatives can make the difference between building brand value or ending in a shitstorm of greenwashing accusations. Learn to navigate the pitfalls and […]

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