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In this video I'm going to focus
on the tools and practises that

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companies can use in
their sustainability work.

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I will start by explaining that
what are the tools and practices. And

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in these slides I have a
couple of examples of tools.

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Some of those might even
be familiar to you already.

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So basically tools and practices
are such that they help

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companies to manage the
sustainability issues.

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They either help the companies
to understand that what

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are the significant environmental or social impacts.

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Or then they will help companies to
find ways to reduce these impacts.

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Significant environmental and social impacts
are typically such that they are the biggest

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environmental or social impacts that the companies
are causing, or then they are such that

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companies' stakeholders
are especially interested in.

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And with different tools or different
set of tools and practices, companies

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are then able to manage
the sustainability issues.

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Basically we are talking about the
continuous improvement, that they are

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always able to find ways
to improve in these issues.

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I said I have some examples
of the different methods here.

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Other courses that we are offering
as Corporate Environmental Management

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faculty, they will focus
on these different tools.

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I'm going to talk to you about
two of these tools later on,

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but I will just say a couple of examples,

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for example, on the eco labels. Those are such
that companies can have in their products if the

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products are performing better than the
other products in that area. So then

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my challenge to you is that next time
when you go to grocery shop, for example,

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take a look at the packaging of the food
items or whatever you are buying in the

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shop and take a look if it
has an eco label or not.

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Carbon footprint was something
that I mentioned in the

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very first video in this course.

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So it's a tool that many of the
companies are using at the moment.

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And also one of the tasks in
this course while you are completing

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this course, is to calculate
your own carbon footprint.

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But in this slide, I'm going
to give you an example of

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the sustainability management systems.

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That's a typical internal tool that
companies are using. And then I'm going

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to give you examples of the
sustainability reporting.

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That is kind of an in-between
tool that, of course companies use

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the internal data and
knowledge to produce it.

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But still often the target
group of sustainability report

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are the external
stakeholders of the company.

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But let's start with the management
systems for sustainability.

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In this slide there is kind of an
overview of what is a management system.

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If you have background in
management, for example, you might

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already know about the
quality management systems.

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There is a similar system for
environmental issues as well.

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But management system is typically a
system for managing the environmental

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and/or social impacts that
the companies is causing.

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The system helps a company to
identify what are the most significant

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environmental and/or social impacts
and then helps the company to

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find ways to reduce those impacts.

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As said, this is a very typical
example of an internal tool.

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So it helps companies to
improve their own operations.

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It can also offer an
external verification.

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So there are systems that the company can
certify and really get a certificate out of it,

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out of the process, and then they can
show that to external stakeholders,

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typically business partners, to say
that we have focused

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on environmental or social
issues. And in that way it

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can be an advantage in the
stakeholder relationships, or in some

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cases it's even a demand
from the stakeholders.

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So typically it is the larger companies
that will have a management system.

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And, therefore, there are these bigger
companies that are nowadays starting

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to ask for the management system also
from their own suppliers. And this

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is completely voluntary
action for the companies.

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So there isn't any law that says that
you need to have a management system.

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But then again, 
the requirement of

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a system might come from
the business partners.

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And in here I have just listed
examples of these management systems.

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We have a whole course that will
focus on managing a green organisation

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if you are interested to know more.

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There are two main environmental
management systems. ISO 14001:

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This is very similar to ISO's
quality management systems.

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If you know that then you have an idea how
to build an environmental management system

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as well. And then the EMAS
system, which comes from the EU.

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So it's basically an European
based management system, but then

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again European companies can also certify

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their operations outside
Europe based on this.

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And then there are some that focus

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on the sustainability or a certain
topic inside sustainability.

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There is ISO guidelines
on sustainability.

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This isn't really a certifiable
system, but still ISO wanted

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to produce their own
guidelines on sustainability.

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Then there is the AA1000 that focuses on
stakeholder engagement, stakeholder dialogue.

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And then the SA8000 that focuses
on decent workplaces. So

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kind of very basic health and safety
issues, for example, in the workplace.

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Then my second example focuses
on sustainability reporting.

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As said, it's kind of in-between tool in a way that
companies need to collect and process the data, often

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inside of their own company. And then they will
process the data and then publish the sustainability

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report that is quite often targeted
to the external stakeholders.

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So the companies need to have
a process which is called

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sustainability reporting or sustainability
accounting in a company where they collect the

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data that describes their performance on
economic, environmental and social impacts.

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And then the sustainability report is
a kind of an end result of that process.

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Typically companies publish a report every
year, if they have started to publish one.

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And

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it should cover both positive and negative
impacts that the companies are causing.

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There is a bit of a tendency that
companies report only on the positive

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news and on the success stories, but still
they should also disclose a report

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on something that hasn't
been that successful.

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Here I just have an example of
the cover of sustainability report

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from Metsä Board, which
is aFinnish forest

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industry company.

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Then kind of what should be
inside of a sustainability report.

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Similar to the management systems also
sustainability reporting is a voluntary practice

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for company. So they can choose whether
or not they will report, and then they

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can also choose what they
will have inside of a report.

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There are some countries
that have regulation

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that's defines somewhat the content.

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Also, as I mentioned in the
previous video, is that there

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is a new EU regulation on this topic.

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At the moment it isn't that strict,
but EU is renewing the regulation

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and it might get stricter in the future.

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But to give you some idea is that a
good report should contain both monetary and

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non-monetary information, both
qualitative and quantitative information,

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so numbers. And then as said, both
positive and negative information.

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At the moment the most commonly used
international framework for reporting is the

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Global Reporting Initiative. And also in
this slide I have an example of content

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of sustainability report and
once more this is Metsä Board.

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And the reason why I chose these two pages
from the report is that, I'm not sure if you

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are able to see from the video, but
please take look at the slides which are

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attached to this video,
is that these signs

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that the company has selected here, 
kind of the small squares. They are

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those sustainable development
goals. So also Metsä Board has

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considered that how their
operation, how their products will

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have an impact on the Sustainable
Development Goals. And in Moodle you have the

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sustainability report of Kone,
which is also a Finnish company.

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So take a look at also that
report to give you some kind of an

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idea how companies report
on sustainability issues.