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: Nature](https://sbc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/SBC-Guide-Nature-web-and-panui-300x300.png)
Healthy people, healthy businesses and a healthy planet all rely on thriving nature. Over half of the ...
![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 ...
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 ...