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Introduction to Policies
Policy documents play a key role in setting clear and actionable guidelines for your business or organisation. When developed effectively, they can provide accountability and transparency, helping to ensure that your sustainability commitments are embedded across your organisation.
Policies also serve as a communication tool, helping you to demonstrate your environmental responsibility to your stakeholders, customers, suppliers and wider team. This can help support your efforts in aligning with your organisation’s goals, legislative requirements and further net zero ambitions.
In this section, we’ll cover how to develop a single Environmental Policy. This will include elements such as your:
- Travel
- Waste
- Procurement and Supply Chain
- Carbon Footprint
Depending on your business size or structure, you may choose to develop further policy documents for each individual element.
Why you should have policies in place
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Step one
Beginner
Developing a strong policy framework is key to embedding sustainability into your business. This guide will help you develop a single Environmental Policy, including your approach to Travel, Procurement, Waste and monitoring your Carbon Footprint.
Step two
Intermediate
For businesses with existing policies, or if you have recently developed a new policy, conducting a self-assessment ensures that your commitments are relevant, measurable and impactful.
Step three
Expert
Sustainable practices, achieving net zero and working within the circular economy can quickly become a core part of your business culture, supported by the proper roll-out of your policies.