Accounting for Sustainability

This book presents examples of how organisations have used sustainability accounting for sustainability tools and principles to embed sustainability into their DNA. Key features include:

• practitioner-oriented illustrations of 'connected thinking' between the organisation's sustainability agenda, overall strategy and core business activities;
• examples of processes that have been followed to enable sustainability issues to be taken into account clearly and consistently in strategic and day-to-day decision-making;
• examination of how the embedding of sustainability extends beyond an organisation's own boundaries to take into account suppliers and customers;
• examples of how to measure sustainability performance and financial impacts and the systems and processes necessary to support the collection of relevant data; and
• identification of barriers to embedding sustainability and ways in which organizations have sought to address and overcome these.

In-depth cases studies from Aviva, BT, the Environment Agency, EDF Energy, HSBC, Novo Nordisk, Sainsbury's and West Sussex County Council paint a rich picture of accounting for sustainability in practice and a wealth of lessons and examples of both common pitfalls and good practice.

This book is indispensible for all business leaders, accountancy professionals and others seeking to embed sustainability into the DNA of their organisations in the pursuit of both better business and better sustainability performance.