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Setting sustainability goals for success

Setting sustainability goals for success

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Setting sustainability goals for success

- [Presenter] A successful sustainability program starts with setting specific and time bound goals. Setting meaningful goals help clarify priorities across your entire organization and keeps your sustainability efforts protected from randomness and distractions. Let's give it a try and by the end of this video, come up with a sustainable goal for your organization or school, city or community. Write down answers to these questions. What is the motivation for setting sustainability goals? Who are your stakeholders, customers, investors, employees, suppliers or even competitors? What are the issues that are strategically important to your organization? How will the sustainability goals align with your organization's strategy and priorities in the short and longterm, revenue generation as well as productivity and/or risk management. While setting sustainable goals there are a few important details that make the goals…

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