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Foreword by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales | p. xiii |
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | p. xv |
List of Contributors | p. xvii |
Acknowledgements | p. xxiv |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. xxv |
Introduction to the Accounting for Sustainability Case Studies | p. 1 |
Sustainability, sustainable development and climate change | p. 3 |
The role and significance of sustainability for organizations | p. 8 |
Embedding sustainability considerations into business practice through accounting for sustainability | p. 15 |
Summary of the case studies | p. 19 |
Conclusions | p. 26 |
The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project: Creating 21st-Century Decision-Making and Reporting Systems to Respond to 21st-Century Challenges and Opportunities | p. 29 |
Introduction | p. 29 |
The ten main elements to embed sustainability into decision-making | p. 32 |
An overview of the A4S decision-making tool | p. 32 |
An introduction to the concept of connected reporting and the Connected Reporting Framework (CRF) | p. 36 |
Next steps: The creation of an International Integrated Reporting Committee | p. 44 |
Sainsbury's: Embedding Sustainability within the Supermarket Supply Chain | p. 47 |
Introduction | p. 47 |
The context of the A4S decision-making tool at Sainsbury's | p. 49 |
The lamb supply chain and sustainability | p. 51 |
Sainsbury's perspective on embedding sustainability | p. 54 |
The supplier perspective | p. 63 |
The next step for Sainsbury's: The Connected Reporting Framework (CRF)? | p. 65 |
Conclusions | p. 69 |
Using the Connected Reporting Framework as a Driver of Change within EDF Energy | p. 73 |
Introduction: EDF Energy | p. 73 |
The case study | p. 74 |
Background and history of EDF Energy and accounting for sustainability | p. 74 |
EDF Energy's sustainability journey | p. 81 |
Conclusions | p. 89 |
A Golden Thread for Embedding Sustainability in a Local Government Context: The Case of West Sussex County Council | p. 95 |
Introduction | p. 95 |
Chapter overview | p. 96 |
Background: Local government and West Sussex County Council | p. 97 |
Embedding sustainability within the county council | p. 99 |
Policies, performance structures and tools | p. 107 |
Conclusions | p. 123 |
Building from the Bottom, Inspired from the Top: Accounting for Sustainability and the Environment Agency | p. 129 |
Introduction | p. 129 |
The Environment Agency: Background information | p. 131 |
Environmental management and strategy | p. 132 |
Environmental accounting: A systems approach | p. 134 |
Connected actions, connected reporting, carbon reduction, staff mileage, key performance indicators (KPIs) and corporate scorecards | p. 136 |
The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S), the Connected Reporting Framework (CRF) and the Environment Agency | p. 142 |
Conclusions | p. 144 |
Evolution of Risk, Opportunity and the Business Case in Embedding Connected Reporting at BT | p. 149 |
Introduction | p. 149 |
Changes in directions of causality: Reporting driving action, action driving reporting | p. 150 |
Evolution of risk and opportunity considerations in sustainability decisions: Making the business case | p. 151 |
Nuancing the business case: Degrees of uncertainty and appealing to the interests of managers at different levels | p. 153 |
Materiality helping to determine the content of connected sustainability reporting | p. 155 |
Case example: Supply-chain initiatives - Sourcing with Human Dignity | p. 162 |
Conclusions | p. 170 |
Sustainability and Organizational Connectivity at HSBC | p. 173 |
Introduction | p. 173 |
Linking financial and non-financial performance and risk | p. 174 |
Implementation of the Equator Principles and sector policies | p. 175 |
Integration of responses to environmental impacts of HSBC's business and culture | p. 180 |
The role of sustainability reporting | p. 185 |
Conclusions | p. 188 |
'One Aviva, Twice the Value': Connecting Sustainability at Aviva plc | p. 191 |
'One Aviva, one world' | p. 192 |
Linking responsibility and sustainability | p. 193 |
Connected reporting | p. 197 |
Climate change and carbon-neutral Aviva | p. 199 |
Stakeholders and the value chain | p. 201 |
Embedding sustainable and responsible investment practices | p. 203 |
Reporting practices | p. 207 |
Conclusions and lessons from Aviva | p. 209 |
Integrated Reporting at Novo Nordisk | p. 215 |
Introduction | p. 215 |
Context and background | p. 216 |
The Novo Nordisk 'Way of Management' | p. 219 |
Triple bottom line (TBL) management | p. 222 |
'Sarb-Oxing' the non-financial control environment | p. 224 |
The balanced scorecard | p. 225 |
Facilitation | p. 228 |
Full integration at Novo Nordisk: Embedding sustainability | p. 229 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 233 |
Introduction | p. 233 |
Lessons learned | p. 234 |
Summary | p. 242 |
Glossary | p. 243 |
Index | p. 251 |
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