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Scope 3 Quick Guide
The GEMI Scope 3 Quick Guide is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all available challenges and opportunities relating to Scope 3 solutions, nor a guide for selecting a particular solution or approach, but rather GEMI has developed this Quick Guide to promote dialogue around potential solutions.
Recycling Post Industrial Food Film Packaging Contaminated with Food Residues – Landscape Assessment
GEMI developed a landscape assessment document outlining challenges, issues for industry consideration, and activities already underway by other organizations related to recycling post industrial food film packaging contaminated with food residues.
Future Forces that will Disrupt Sustainable Business
A full-spectrum thinking approach to building sustainability, 2019–2029.
Quick Guide on Buyer / Supplier Collaboration on Sustainability
How companies can engage with their suppliers in more collaborative ways to create shared value.
Responsible Supply Chain Guiding Principles
Principles are intended to outline foundational elements that business leaders across industries believe to be essential when engaging suppliers on sustainability.
GEMI SCS Solutions Case Studies
Case studies examine why and how companies are using certain supply chain sustainability harmonization solutions to impact business decision-making.
Supply Chain Sustainability Solutions Map
This high-level map depicts selected industry focused supply chain sustainability harmonization solutions, with a focus on their data collection efforts.
GEMI Sustainability 101 Training Toolkit
This training toolkit has been developed for use in training entry- to mid-level employees in various roles across industries to provide a baseline understanding of core sustainability concepts; increase awareness of how sustainability impacts business; and, identify simple opportunities to contribute to sustainability objectives.
ISO 14001:2015 Checklist
This Excel checklist has been developed to improve facility managers’ understanding of the requirements and elements of the environmental management system outlined in the ISO 14001:2015 international standard.
IPIECA Water risk assessment e-learning training course
The IPIECA Water risk assessment e-learning training course aims to improve uptake and implementation whilst helping companies effectively, efficiently and easily monitor, assess and manage water risks.
Sustainability 101 Quick Guide
Offers a comprehensive overview of how companies today are creating business value from sustainability plus guidance to help sustainability professionals develop, manage and grow their programs.
Materiality Quick Guide
Designed to help corporations understand materiality and its relationship to sustainability; recognize the importance of materiality in defining an appropriate sustainability strategy; and learn what factors to consider when undertaking a materiality assessment.
Engaging Employees in Sustainability
Designed to provide insight for how corporations can successfully engage and motivate employees to actively participate in executing a comprehensive sustainability strategy.
Supply Chain Sustainability (SCS) Tool
Designed as a guide to help support and assist with strategic sourcing and procurement by providing visibility into CO2e and water impacts within a financial context.
Cultivating Sustainability Within an Organization Quick Guide
Designed to provide insights for how corporations demonstrate and communicate the value of sustainability and activate internal resources to achieve key sustainability objectives.
Renewable and Alternative Energy Quick Guide
Designed to provide insight into how corporations assess and implement renewable and alternative energy technologies.
EDF-GEMI WaterMAPP
Excel-based, multi-tabbed spreadsheet with two primary components: the Water Scorecard and the Water Efficiency Calculator.
Local Water Tool
Helps companies and organizations identify the external impacts, business risks, and opportunities related to water use and discharge at a specific site or operation.
GEMI-EDF Guide to Successful Corporate-NGO Partnerships
Intended as a comprehensive aid to organizing, designing, implementing and measuring the success of corporate-NGO partnerships.
Business and Climate
Designed to help companies assess the most appropriate ways to address climate change-related emission reductions and reduce energy consumption.
HSE Web Depot
Presents a framework for HSE-MIS planning, development, system rollout and improvement and organizes company experiences within these areas.
Collecting the Drops: A Water Sustainability Planner
A tool to be used by companies that are ready to address the water sustainability challenges that are increasingly impacting companies around the world.
SD Planner
An interactive web tool to raise awareness of SD concepts and identify the business case for action on SD (Sustainable Development).
Metrics Navigator
A tool to help organizations develop and implement metrics that provide insight into complex issues, support business strategy and contribute to business success.
Map of Future Forces Affecting Sustainability
Designed to help companies develop their own perspective of a future being shaped increasingly by external forces linked to concept of sustainable development.
Clear Advantage: Building Shareholder Value / Environment
This tool has been designed to help provide businesses approaches on how to measure, manage and communicate EHS value to the financial community thereby making tangibles out of intangibles
Transparency: A Path to Public Trust
Designed to provide approaches that companies can consider as they address transparency related challenges and opportunities.
Forging New Links
A resource to assist managers in recognizing, prioritizing and pursing specific value creation opportunities.
Connecting the Drops: Toward Creative Water Strategies
Designed to help businesses build a well-tailored water strategy that fits the business’ needs and circumstances.
New Paths to Business Value: Strategic Sourcing–Environment, Health, and Safety
Designed to help identify when, why, and how to pursue added business value by addressing the environmental, health and safety (EHS) performance of suppliers and contractors, and understand how their products and services might affect your business.
Environment: Value to the Top Line (EVTL)
Designed to help identify new processes and ways of thinking about the role of environmental initiatives vis-à-vis broader business objectives.
Fostering Environmental Prosperity, Multinationals in Developing Countries
Links economic data with case studies to show that multinational corporations are positive forces for both economic development and environmental, health and safety excellence in the developing countries in which they operate.
Environmental Improvement Through Business Incentives
Assesses incentives that have worked in government and in the private sector to encourage companies to go beyond compliance.
Environment: Value to Business (EVTB)
The goal of this primer is to guide corporate environmental professionals in planning, creating, measuring and communicating the business value of environmental activities.
Measuring Environmental Performance: A Primer and Survey of Metrics in Use
Designed to present a survey of environmental performance measurement tools, or metrics, and includes considerations for designing a metrics program and selecting appropriate metrics, as well as for implementing, evaluating and improving such a program.
HSE Management, Information Systems Planning, Moving Into the 21st Century
Designed to help Health, Safety and Environmental managers reach new levels of performance by partnering their expertise with that of Management Information Systems (MIS) professionals and Manufacturing & Operations, Marketing, Research & Development, Finance and Legal experts across the country.
Incentives for Environmental Improvement: An Assessment of Selected Innovative Programs in the States and Europe
This study is one of the three studies commissioned by the IDEA Work Group Reports to provide the basis for further discussions with EH&S thought leaders.
IDEA 21: Industry Incentives for Environmental Improvement: Evaluation of U.S. Federal Initiatives
This study is one of the three studies commissioned by the IDEA Work Group Reports to provide the basis for further discussions with EH&S thought leaders.
IDEA 21: Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety Practices in Transition
This study is one of the three studies commissioned by the IDEA Work Group Reports to provide the basis for further discussions with EH&S thought leaders.
EMS Self-Assessment Checklist
This checklist is based on the 1996 ISO 14001 standard and allows for a rapid self-assessment of an organization or facility to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the standard.
Environmental Reporting and Third Party Statements
The primary objective of this study was to test whether third party attestation statements contained in voluntary corporate environmental reports added value in the eyes of external stakeholders.
Environmental, Health & Safety Training: A Primer
Assists companies in training their site Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) personnel. A guidance document for anyone involved in the development of such training.
Environmental Reporting in a Total Quality Management Framework: A Primer
This tool relates Total Quality Environmental Management (TQEM) to environmental measurement and reporting, helping companies identify problems before they occur, target key areas for management attention and possible expenses, provide support for needed improvements in existing management systems, and provide a realistic basis for setting future performance expectations and holding line managers accountable.
Finding Cost-Effective Pollution Prevention Initiatives
Designed to help the international business community find cost-effective pollution prevention initiatives by incorporating environmental costs into the business decision-making process.
Benchmarking for Continuous Environmental Improvement
Provides a format and structure for conducting a benchmarking study. Designed to teach the reader how to make environmental improvements based on existing or publicly available information and resources.
Total Quality Environmental Management (TQEM): The Primer
Takes the reader through basic definitions of TQEM, how to implement a TQEM program and measurements, and how to use them.
Environmental Self-Assessment Program (ESAP)
Provides helpful ideas for assessing and developing management programs and improving environmental performance.