There is scope for discomfort in depicting relationships between the actions and decisions of a company’s management team on climate and environment, but these can be most inconvenient in its relationships with entities beyond its walls.
Knowingly or otherwise, all companies’ managers make decisions that determine the magnitude and impact of their organisation’s environmental footprint.
For maximum effect in depicting that footprint, to discern where management places its priorities, it pays to identify:
- For what it earns its money
- Where and on what it spends it
- The provenance of the goods and services it buys and from whom it buys them
- Which companies are investing in it
- Which organisations lend it money
- Which organisations are its insurers
- Where and how it invests in its efforts toward sustainability
- How and for what its people are rewarded
