Improving performance and setting targets
How do you reduce the impact of your company or organisation? You make a to-do list and set targets to stay focused.
Reducing your impact
How do you reduce the impact of your company or organisation? These are the steps you need to take:
- Pay particular attention to the activities in your company or organisation that have the most impact, for example use of electricity and commuting/business travel (see baseline measurement)
- Put impact/emission reduction tips that are relevant to your situation on an action list.
- Carry out the impact/emission reduction activities.
Reduction tips for your sector/industry
You go through the list of sustainability actions that are significant for your industry. The measures have been drawn up based on Stimular’s years of experience in providing advice on environmental matters. By providing measures with a date (year) and a note these immediately form an action list.
Measures recognised by the Dutch government
Measures in your industry that are recognised by the Dutch government are shown by the Dutch coat of arms in white on a dark blue block. These are measures that you must report on in the Netherlands if your company is required to report on ESG performance.
Set targets to keep your company sharp
What is your company or organisation aiming for in terms of reducing its impact? What is your ambition? By setting targets you make your planned efforts more concrete and you can determine annually whether you are moving in the right direction.
A target may be something like:
- We will cut our carbon footprint in half by 2030 or even reduce it to zero.
- We will reduce our electricity consumption per employee or product unit by 20% by 2030.
- We will be separating at least 85% of our waste by 2025.
These are the steps you need to take:
- Select the indicators you want to link your targets to, for example emissions, electricity consumption or percentage of separated waste.
- Set the targets for your company or organisation.
- Visualise your annual progress towards the targets in a chart or graph.
Key figures to guide improvement
Key figures give you extra control when focusing on improvement. You select the key figures that are relevant to follow and to use in goal-line charts. For this you can use the insights gained from the environmental/emission data visuals on topics with the most impact in your company or organisation.
Goal-line charts to visualise your progress
After a few years of entering data in the Envirometer you will be able to see your progress in the goal-line charts you configured. The target is shown by the patterned target area. The traffic light colours show whether you are achieving your ambition.
Additional sustainability targets (CSR)
Perhaps your company or organisation would like to include social, socio-economic or other aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in addition to the environment.
These are the steps you need to take:
- For the baseline measurement select social and socio-economic CSR indicators, like sickness absence and internships for example.
- Set the targets for your company or organisation.
- Visualise your annual progress against your targets in a chart or graph.
Goal-line charts showing social/socio-economic sustainability indicators
After a few years of entering data in the Envirometer you will be able to see your progress in the goal-line charts you configured.
Ready for the next step:
Getting started with: Monitoring and making adjustments
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It’s a fantastic tool for gaining insight into your emissions and determining your targets. I am very happy with the Envirometer.
Frequently asked questions
Looking for an answer and your question is not listed? Then take a look at our FAQ overviewpage
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How was the list of measures created?
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The suggestions for saving measures are developed for each sector, and the legally required measures are also included. You can then further adjust the list yourself and filter it based on the measures relevant to you.
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What goal should I set for a CO2 footprint?
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That’s entirely up to you to decide.
Good to know: to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees, we need to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030 and be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest.
You can read more about setting Paris Proof goals in the Guide by the Stimular Foundation.