Sustainable Business Strategies & Benchmarks

These resources will help you identify core principles, assessment tools, and benchmarks for integrating long-term economic, environmental, and social sustainability into your business planning.

Dow Jones Sustainability Index

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide.

The Natural Step Framework

The Natural Step Framework offers four scientifically grounded core principles for realigning an organization with ideas of sustainable development. Balancing ecological and social aspirations, Sweden-based TNS has allowed companies like Interface, Inc, IKEA, and Nike, Inc. to develop strategic plans for decreasing dependence on extracted resources, redesigning products and process to addressing needs of people worldwide, and much more. The Natural Step framework enables corporations to intelligently, and profitably, integrate environmental considerations into strategic decisions and daily operations. The Natural Step Framework Guidebook

Businesses for Social Responsibility-Climate Change Strategies

The challenge is how to respond to climate change in a way that makes sense for your company. This report examines corporate strategies for energy efficiency, emissions offsets, and renewable energy. BSR Climate Change Strategies for Businesses