Overview

This book outlines a path towards a more practical era for ""corporate responsibility"", where companies make real environmental gains based on hard facts, using lifecycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPDs). By the time you have finished this book you will be able to make the case for moving from corporate to product sustainability and propose a methodology for doing this, based on EPDs. In the past decade, thousands of companies have started the journey towards sustainability, leading to a huge supporting industry of sustainability professionals, lorry-loads of corporate reports, and a plethora of green labels and marketing claims. Ramon Arratia argues that it's now time to transform this new industry by cutting out all the fluff and instead focusing on Full Product Transparency (FPT). In the world of FPT, companies carry out LCAs for all their products and services, identifying their biggest impacts and where they can make the greatest difference. They disclose the full environmental impacts of their products using easily-understood metrics, allowing customers to make meaningful comparisons in their purchasing decisions and providing governments with a platform to reward products and services with the lowest impacts. This book will help you put your company on a path towards Full Product Transparency. This is a decision that can revolutionize and align consumer behaviour, supply chains, policy-making and reporting. It is no less than the path to the future of all business.

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Author:   Ramon Arratia
Publisher:   Do Sustainability
Imprint:   Do Sustainability
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.113kg
ISBN:  

9781909293212

ISBN 10:   1909293210
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   27 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: The case for refocusing on product (rather than corporate) sustainability 1. The corporate responsibility beauty contest hasn't taken us that far 2. It's about products, not companies! Part II: What is full product transparency and how do you go about it 3. What are FPT, LCAs and EPDs? 4. Full product transparency at work: The magic metric that changed the car industry 5. How to revolutionise other industry sectors through a magic metric: A practical guide for policy-makers 6. Guide for companies to truly embed sustainability at the core: How this seemingly naive idea of full product transparency can align companies and their value chains 7. How full product transparency will revitalise the bureaucratic approach to managing sustainability in the supply chain 8. If you sell to the government, you'd better understand full product transparency: How Green Public Procurement is becoming based on transparent metrics Part III: How full product transparency will revolutionise business relations with consumers, investors, policy-makers and society 9. Consumers might not care that much but full product transparency can still stimulate real demand for sustainable products 10. How full transparency can make policy instruments more effective 11. Full product transparency: The future of reporting

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RAMON ARRATIA is a sustainability director with 13 years of practical experience in corporate positions at multinational companies. He was named by The Guardian newspaper as one of the world's top sustainable business tweeters.

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