Volatile energy costs, natural resource constraints, regulatory uncertainty, and increasing stakeholder expectations make sustainability--including climate change--a strategic issue. Publicized reports of companies blindsided by problems with environmental and social issues remind business leaders how quickly nonfinancial causes can lead to financial loss.

Global Best Practices offers benchmarking and best practices content to support improvement efforts to address the range of sustainability challenges in your business. The resources enable you to evaluate its current state and identify ways to move the organization to a higher level of performance.

The processes, below, include numerous best practices to help companies meet the challenges of sustainability, especially as they relate to environmental issues. The following links, organized by process area, provide access to just a few examples of related information and tools:

• Process 11.1.4 Assess sustainability risks and opportunities offers best practices for evaluating environmental issues and developing related strategies to preserve and create long-term value.
  
  
• Process 11.2 Develop and execute EHS program offers best practices for embedding EHS values into everyday business practices and performance objectives.
  
  
• Process 3.2.4 Implement design for environment program offers best practices for integrating strategies early in product and service development to reduce environmental impact.