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Sustainability Journey for Public Sector

How can a public sector organization successfully advance sustainability?

Public institutions have a role to play in helping to drive global sustainability efforts.

It is the public sector which often sets the standard for societal behaviors and can serve as a role model for citizens, public institutions can be expected to lead by example in the transformation to environmentally sustainable operations and to more inclusive and transparent processes. Even without explicit regulatory obligations.

What is the Sustainability Journey ?

How can the Public Sector benefit from implementing sustainability into its own operations?

Improving environmental and social performance can offer considerable benefits to a public organization:

Building resilience

Although the transformation toward sustainability may involve considerable costs, it can be regarded as an investment that increases the ability to adapt to current and future environmental and social challenges.

As shapers of legislation and standards for sustainable development, public institutions should lead by example, encouraging the private sector to take action on sustainability ESG regulation.

Improving transparency

A commitment to sustainability involves clear communication of environmental and social impacts—and doing so regularly can improve trust in public institutions and help avoid greenwashing accusations.

Enhancing relations with stakeholders

By addressing sustainability public institutions can respond to the needs of various stakeholders, such as the society’s expectation to contribute to sustainability goals or investors’ and development organizations’ objectives to expand their portfolios aligned with sustainability criteria.

Leading by example

As shapers of legislation and standards for sustainable development, public institutions should lead by example, encouraging the private sector to take action on sustainability.

What we do: Sustainability Journey by Deloitte

Sustainability Journey by Deloitte provides clarity and structure to public sector organizations as they work to improve their internal sustainability efforts. We collaborate with public institutions to help build strategies that can enhance social, environmental, and economic value while addressing sustainability risks and opportunities and meeting stakeholder expectations.

The Journey comprises a framework of modules that build on one another, allowing exploration of one specific need or immersion in the full Sustainability Journey.

ESG Reporting in Public Sector

Investors, regulators and customers seek to understand public authorities’ sustainability-related risk exposure and direct and indirect contributions to the climate crisis. Given the growing demand for meaningful and reliable ESG-related data from financial, political, industry and community stakeholders, proactive ESG reporting could help public sector actors (e.g., governments, cities etc.) to:

build resilience
improve transparency
improve governance and policy making
enhance relashionships with stakeholders (incl. citizens),
respond to growing private market practice on reporting.

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Transforming Public Sector Sustainability Reporting: A Call to Action

How is the Sustainability Journey applied to different public sector organisations?

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Sustainability Journey in EU Institutions

How is the Sustainability Journey applied to different public sector organisations?

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