Sustainability Environmental Governance ISO14001: 5 days: Assessment

The UK government has committed to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is encouraging local government and public sector organisations to support delivery against two thirds of the targets. As your services impact on both the environmental and social challenges faced by the UK, you have a crucial role in helping to achieve these targets by 2030. To support these goals, you must change behaviours within your organisation, and technology and data solutions are vital in helping you deliver this.

Environmental Compliance Sustainability isn’t a tick box exercise and it’s becoming more important than ever for public sector organisations to be seen doing their part to protect our environment. Because of this, robust environmental governance and the management of compliance and risks are key to your overall sustainability strategy. The ISO 14001 framework is the international standard for environmental management systems, helping organisations to reduce their environmental impact by following requirements. Alongside ensuring legal compliance with environmental legislation, ISO 14001 supports all organisations to reduce waste, improve resource efficiency, and reduce the cost of waste management.

What to expect from the assessments? Our environmental governance and compliance programme is interactive and follows ISO 14001 methodology to address environmental governance in your organisation. Certified ISO 14001 in-house consultants will help you understand how to manage environmental sustainability across all areas of your organisation, including:

• Governance and risk: align or build policies and processes using the tools of Microsoft 365
• Strategy: align technologies to reduce your carbon footprint, migrating into Microsoft Azure, extending your use of Azure or other Microsoft technologies and using Microsoft 365 tools to record, report and reduce carbon emissions.
• Metrics: build your environmental management system using Microsoft 365 tools
• Audit: support for Internal Audit

This approach will empower your organisation to:

• Deliver value for money from Microsoft 365
• Support sustainable urban development and mobility of people and processes through a decarbonised IT infrastructure
• Innovate overpopulation and waste management
• Make your carbon footprint neutral, then negative, measuring using Microsoft tools
• Support energy transitions and renewables by migrating into the Microsoft Azure environment and utilising more Microsoft technologies
• Protect biodiversity
• Achieve ISO 14001 certification

Based on your organisation’s specific needs, we will assist you to build a bespoke package from the following workshops:

• GREC envisioning session
• Environmental governance gap analysis
• Environmental incident response plan consultation
• Environmental policies and procedures
• Environmental audits with remediation action plans
• Environmental risk management consultation
• Environmental metrics, reporting, and improvement plans
• Next steps workshop: carbon accounting, strategy, and green technology

The benefits

• Align services to delivery of your sustainability objectives, increasing your use of Microsoft technologies
• Gain robust environmental governance of your organisation using Microsoft tools
• A fully documented environmental framework and toolkit