Sustainability Toolkit
SBC Guides
SBC’s guides are designed for anyone responsible for driving forward sustainability within a business, including not only those with a background in sustainability, but also people and culture professionals, procurement leads, and risk managers. Some of the more recent guides, written by thinkstep-ANZ and Kaitaiki Collective in partnership with SBC, explain important sustainability topics for businesses. Grounded in te ao Māori, they cover a variety of environmental, social and governance topics to help you make progress on these areas.
![SBC Guide: Measure, reduce and report your carbon footprint](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SBC-Guide-carbon-footprint-website-300x300.png)
Measuring your organisation’s carbon footprint feeds into the whakapapa of your business, helping you and ...
![SBC Guide: Adapting to climate change (including disclosures)](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SBC-Guide-climate-adaptation-300x300.png)
Climate change poses operational and financial risks. For example, extreme weather events like floods may disrupt ...
![SBC Guide – Sustainability strategy and plans](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/SBC-Guide-sustainability-strategy-300x300.png)
Businesses need a strategy to be successful – and the same goes for sustainability efforts. Having a ...
![SBC Guide – The business case for sustainability](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SBC-Guide-business-case-for-sustainability-2-300x300.png)
Sustainable businesses create value in the short and long term – economically, environmentally and socially. ...
![Reporting Toolkit](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/SBC-Guide-reporting-toolkit-300x300.png)
This guidance document introduces the concepts of sustainability reporting. It is a starting point for Sustainable ...
![Materiality Toolkit](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/SBC-Guide-materiality-toolkit-300x300.png)
This guidance document introduces the concepts of materiality and stakeholder engagement and is meant for people ...
External Resources
To make it easy for members to access best practice and thought leadership from around the globe, SBC has compiled a collection of external resources covering key sustainability topics.
![Just Transitions – Policy Quarterly, Victoria University](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/External-Resource-equity-diversity-inclusion-300x300.png)
Policy Quarterly (PQ) is targeted at readers in the public sector, including politicians and their staff, public ...
![Accelerating action for a just transition](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/External-Resource-equity-diversity-inclusion-300x300.png)
A just transition ensures that environmentally sustainable economies are promoted in a way that is as fair and ...
![Just Transition: A Business Guide](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/External-Resource-equity-diversity-inclusion-300x300.png)
The shift toward a net-zero world will bring economy-wide transformation on a scale we’ve never seen. This ...
![Future-Fit Business Benchmark](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/External-Resource-sustainability-strategy-300x300.png)
Systems science tells us how our economy must be transformed if we are to meet everyone’s needs and live in ...
![Offsetting (Z Energy)](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/External-Resource-climate-mitigation-300x300.png)
Z Energy have shared a decision paper they utilised for establishing a business position on voluntary offsetting. ...
![Sustainable Procurement (WBCSD)](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/External-Resource-human-rights-300x300.png)
WBCSD has developed a report on ‘Incentivising supply chain decarbonisation using procurement ...