Below listed are the elements of a sustainability report that can be used as a guidance when developing your own hypothetical sustainability report for a business of your choice.
1. Introduction: Provide an overview of the organization, its industry, and its commitment to sustainability.
2. Vision, Mission, and Goals: Outline the organization’s sustainability vision, mission statement, and specific sustainability goals.
3. Materiality: Identify and prioritize key material issues via the support of SASB and MSCI.
3. Stakeholder Engagement: Describe how the organization engages with various stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, and local communities, to address sustainability concerns.
4. Environmental Performance: Assess the organization’s environmental impact, including energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, waste generation, pollution etc.
5. Social Responsibility: Evaluate the organization’s efforts to promote social responsibility, such as employee welfare, diversity and inclusion initiatives, community involvement, and human rights.
6. Economic Sustainability: Discuss the organization’s economic sustainability, including financial performance, responsible sourcing, ethical business practices, and long-term viability.
7. Governance Structure: Outline the organization’s sustainability policies, codes of conduct, and any commitments related to governance, such as adherence to international standards or participation in sustainability initiatives and how sustainability is conducted in the organization by which business units/persons.
9. Performance Indicators: Present key performance indicators (KPIs) used to measure progress towards sustainability goals, such as carbon footprint reduction targets, waste diversion rates, and employee satisfaction scores.
10. Challenges and Opportunities: Identify challenges faced by the organization in implementing sustainability initiatives and opportunities for improvement.
12. Future Outlook: Provide insights into the organization’s future sustainability strategy, including upcoming initiatives, goals, targets and any forward looking initiatives/statements.
15. References and Data Sources: Provide references and sources for all data and information cited in the report.
– report must be more than 20 pages
– Data included is hypothetical data, taking into account the company’s previous performance based on their sustainability report.
Choose any company/business in the UAE and write a hypothetical sustainability report for that company. I’ll attach TAQA’s sustainability report for guidance, it should be in a similar manner but way more simpler and shorter (main elements to include are listed above). So choose a company other than TAQA to write a sustainability report for it.
