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Sustainability Expertise for the Business Challenges You're Facing

Customers are asking more questions. Supply chain expectations are evolving. Climate and sustainability risks are changing. And reporting and regulatory requirements continue to develop.

The Sustainable Business Council helps organizations respond to immediate sustainability needs, understand and manage risk, and build practical strategies and action plans for what's next.

Whether you're responding to a customer request, assessing climate risk, preparing for new requirements, or looking for ways to create business value, SBC provides the expertise and practical support to help you move forward.

Gain clarity. Manage risk. Create value. Move forward with confidence.

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Practical Sustainability Support, Built Around Your Needs

Whether you need a clear roadmap, risk assessment, technical expertise, or ongoing strategic guidance, SBC provides practical support designed around your organization's goals, resources, and business priorities.

Need Clarity on Where to Start?

Sustainability Gap Assessment & Roadmap

Understand where you are. Identify what matters most. Build a path forward.

A sustainability gap assessment gives you an objective view of your organization's current practices, priorities, risks, and opportunities.

SBC helps you understand where you are today, identify the highest-priority opportunities and gaps, and develop a practical roadmap aligned with your business goals.

What you'll get:

Current-state sustainability assessment
Identification of key gaps, risks, and opportunities
Prioritized recommendations
Practical actions and next steps
A roadmap aligned with your organization's priorities
Consideration of relevant customer, reporting, and regulatory expectations

Best for: Organizations that need clarity, direction, leadership alignment, or a starting point for their sustainability strategy.

Start with a Gap Assessment

Worried About Climate or Sustainability Risk?

Climate & Sustainability Risk Readiness

Understand emerging risks. Identify opportunities to prepare. Build resilience for what’s ahead.

Climate and sustainability trends can influence a business in many ways, from physical impacts and changing regulations to shifting markets, customer expectations, and supply chains.

SBC helps organizations explore the risks and opportunities most relevant to their business, understand where they may be most exposed, and identify practical ways to prepare for changing conditions.

We can help you:

Explore climate-related physical and transition risks
Consider potential impacts on operations, facilities, supply chains, and customers
Identify emerging sustainability, regulatory, and market considerations
Assess current preparedness and areas where resilience could be strengthened
Prioritize key risks and opportunities based on potential business impact
Develop practical next steps to strengthen resilience and readiness

Best for: Organizations looking to better understand climate and sustainability trends, prepare for changing business conditions, strengthen resilience, or stay ahead of evolving stakeholder and regulatory expectations.

Access Your Climate & Sustainability Risks

Need to Measure or Report Your Emissions?

GHG Inventory & Climate Action Planning

Know your emissions. Meet expectations. Build a path to reduction.

SBC helps organizations develop the emissions data, documentation, and systems needed to respond to customers, prepare for reporting expectations, and identify credible reduction opportunities.

Measure
Develop a credible greenhouse gas inventory and establish systems for tracking emissions over time.

Report
Prepare emissions data and documentation for customer requests, supplier requirements, and evolving reporting expectations.

Act
Translate emissions data into reduction priorities, targets, and practical climate action strategies aligned with business goals.

Best for: Organizations responding to customer requirements, building emissions data for the first time, preparing for reporting, or developing a climate action plan.

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Getting Sustainability Requests from Customers?

EcoVadis & Customer Sustainability Requirements
Stop scrambling when a customer asks for sustainability information.

Customers, investors, and supply chain partners increasingly expect suppliers to provide sustainability information and demonstrate progress.

SBC helps organizations understand what's being asked, identify gaps, organize documentation, and strengthen their responses.

Support can include:

Understanding EcoVadis and other sustainability assessments
Reviewing current documentation and policies
Identifying gaps and improvement opportunities
Organizing evidence and supporting documentation
Responding to customer sustainability questionnaires
Preparing for future assessments and requests

Best for: Organizations navigating EcoVadis, customer questionnaires, supplier requirements, or other sustainability evaluations.

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Need to Prepare for Changing Requirements?

Understand what's changing. Know what applies to you. Prepare before you're required to.

Sustainability reporting and regulatory expectations continue to evolve. SBC helps organizations understand relevant requirements, assess potential gaps, and identify practical steps toward readiness.

We can help you:

Understand emerging sustainability reporting expectations
Identify requirements relevant to your organization
Assess current readiness and documentation
Identify gaps and priority actions
Build processes and systems to support ongoing readiness
Prepare for customer, supplier, and stakeholder information requests

Best for: Organizations trying to understand what's coming, determine what applies to them, or prepare for evolving sustainability and reporting expectations.

Note: SBC provides sustainability guidance and readiness support; legal and regulatory interpretations should be confirmed with qualified legal counsel where appropriate.

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Need Sustainability Leadership Without Hiring a Full-Time Expert?

Sustainability Strategy & Advisory

Build the strategy, systems, and accountability to move sustainability forward.

Whether you're launching a sustainability initiative or strengthening an existing program, SBC provides strategic guidance tailored to your organization's needs.

We can help you:

Define sustainability priorities and goals
Develop sustainability strategies and action plans
Establish governance and accountability
Build internal sustainability capacity
Engage leadership and employees
Integrate sustainability into business planning
Establish systems for measuring and communicating progress
Connect sustainability priorities to business goals and risk management

For organizations that need ongoing expertise, SBC advisors can serve as an extension of your team, providing sustainability leadership without requiring a full-time position.

Best for: Organizations building a sustainability program, establishing goals, seeking leadership support, or needing ongoing sustainability expertise.

Build Your Sustainability Program

Need to Reduce Waste and Improve Efficiency?

Waste & Materials Management

Reduce waste. Lower costs. Recover value.

Waste is often one of the most visible opportunities to improve operational performance while advancing sustainability goals.

SBC helps organizations understand their waste streams, identify improvement opportunities, reduce disposal costs, and improve resource efficiency.

Support can include:

Waste assessments
Waste reduction strategies
Diversion planning
Materials management
Circularity initiatives
Employee engagement
TRUE Zero Waste Certification support

Best for: Organizations looking to reduce waste, lower costs, improve diversion, increase resource efficiency, or strengthen environmental performance.

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Need Employee Buy-In?

Employee Engagement & Behavior Change

Make sustainability action simple, practical, and shared.

Sustainability strategies only work when people understand them and know how to participate.

Through Cool Choices and customized engagement programs, SBC helps organizations turn sustainability goals into everyday actions.

We help organizations:

Increase employee awareness and participation
Connect sustainability goals to everyday behaviors
Build momentum around sustainability initiatives
Create a culture of shared responsibility
Engage employees in measurable sustainability actions

Best for: Organizations looking to strengthen employee engagement, build internal buy-in, and accelerate sustainability initiatives.

Explore Cool Choices

What Are You Trying to Solve?

Every organization is at a different stage. You may be responding to a customer request for the first time, trying to understand your emissions, assessing climate-related risks, preparing for an EcoVadis assessment, navigating new requirements, reducing waste, or building a stronger sustainability program.

SBC can help you:

Respond

Respond to customer and supplier sustainability requests
Complete EcoVadis and other sustainability assessments
Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions
Prepare for evolving reporting and regulatory requirements

Manage Risk

Assess climate-related physical and transition risks
Identify sustainability and business risks and opportunities
Evaluate organizational readiness for changing requirements
Strengthen resilience across operations and supply chains

Create Value

Reduce waste and improve resource efficiency
Develop sustainability strategies and action plans
Build internal sustainability capacity and employee buy-in
Identify opportunities to connect sustainability with business performance
Demonstrate progress with confidence

Not sure which service you need? Start with the challenge you're trying to solve. We'll help you identify the right next step.

What You Can Expect from SBC

Practical. Business-Focused. Built for Action.
Sustainability shouldn't be another report that sits on a shelf.

We focus on practical recommendations that fit your organization's goals, resources, and business realities.

Expertise Without the Overhead

You don't need to build a full sustainability department to make meaningful progress.

SBC provides access to experienced sustainability professionals who can bring the expertise you need, when you need it.

A Trusted Nonprofit Partner

As a nonprofit organization, our focus is helping businesses make meaningful sustainability progress. We provide objective guidance designed to help organizations build long-term capability—not simply complete a project.

Connected to a Community

When you work with SBC, you're connected to a statewide network of sustainability professionals, business leaders, and organizations navigating many of the same challenges.

You gain access to ideas, resources, relationships, and lessons learned from peers.

Sustainability progress is easier when you don't have to figure it out alone.

When you work with the Sustainable Business Council, you gain more than project support. You gain access to a broader ecosystem of sustainability expertise, education, resources, and business leaders.

From educational programs and events to tools, research, benchmarking insights, and peer connections, SBC helps organizations build the knowledge and confidence to keep moving forward.

Our goal isn't just to help you complete a project. It's to help you build the knowledge, relationships, and capabilities needed to make lasting progress.

More Than Consulting

Customer Success

“SBC helped us move from intention to action. Their assessment provided external perspective, strategic guidance, and practical tools needed to gain leadership support and confidently prioritize our next sustainability initiatives.”

— Jill Hundley, Vollrath

Not Sure Where to Start?

You don't need to know exactly what service you need before you reach out.

Tell us what you're trying to solve, what your organization is facing, or where you're stuck. We'll help you identify the highest-priority sustainability challenge and determine the right next step.

Most organizations don't need to figure sustainability out alone.

SBC combines expert guidance, practical solutions, educational resources, and a trusted business community to help organizations respond, manage risk, and create value—with clarity, credibility, and confidence.

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Sustainability Expertise for the Business Challenges You're Facing

Need Clarity on Where to Start?

Worried About Climate or Sustainability Risk?

Need to Measure or Report Your Emissions?

Getting Sustainability Requests from Customers?

Need to Prepare for Changing Requirements?

Need Sustainability Leadership Without Hiring a Full-Time Expert?

Need to Reduce Waste and Improve Efficiency?

Need Employee Buy-In?

What Are You Trying to Solve?

What You Can Expect from SBC

More Than Consulting

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