Successfully Engaging Europe's Smaller Businesses in Environmental and Social Issues

Regardless of sector, size, structure or maturity, to be successful, organisations need to establish an appropriate management framework.  The EFQM Excellence Model was introduced at the beginning of 1992 as the framework for assessing organisations for the European Quality Award. It is now the most widely used organisational framework in Europe and it has become the basis for the majority of national and regional Quality Awards. The EFQM Excellence Model is a practical tool that can be used in a number of different ways:As a tool for Self-AssessmentAs a way to Benchmark with other organisationsAs a guide to identify areas for ImprovementAs the basis for a common Vocabulary and a way of thinkingAs a Structure for the organisation's management system The EFQM Excellence Model is a non-prescriptive framework based on 9 criteria. Five of these are 'Enablers' and four are 'Results'. The 'Enabler' criteria cover what an organisation does. The 'Results' criteria cover what an...

The attached is a presentation made by Pavan Sukhdev in Bonn earlier this year to commemorate Green Week 2008. It elaborates what TEEB really is, and illustrates the ecological, valuation and ethical challenges that lie ahead of us.

This presentation was shown by Bill Becker, Executive Director of Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP), to support his speech at the event 'The Future we want' organized by Tomorrow's Company.It focuses on the state of play in Washington looking forward to Copenhagen - and explores the power of creating a positive vision of a post-carbon future.The panel that joined this event was formed by: Richard Gillies, Director of Plan A and Sustainable Business, Marks & Spencer Richard John, Head of Sustainability at AECOM Europe; and Dr Jan Ole Kiso, Office of Climate Change, Department of Energy and Climate Change.You can listen to his presentation and the rest of the panel's contributions here.

The Global Leaders of Tomorrow project is part an ongoing programme of research led by Ashridge Business School as part of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) Corporate Knowledge and Learning Programme and has received financial support from the EABIS Founding Corporate Partners IBM, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft, Shell and Unilever. The research is based on a global survey of CEOs and senior executives at companies participating in the UN Global Compact conducted in September and October 2008, at the height of the 2008 global financial crisis. This is complemented by in-depth interviews with 33 individuals, including HR and sustainability executives and other thought leaders.