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Bora Surfar
Country: Portugal
A peer-to- peer platform to sell and buy second-hand surf equipment and local services.
Challenge: embed sustainability in the growth strategy and be leader in circular surf industry in Portugal.
Outcome: clear roadmap for the next 12months focusing on transparency, develop sustainability thought leadership in the surf sector, community development through climate action and impact measurement.
Core SGDs: 12 and 14
RE-D Learn
Country: Kenya
Education company offering project based online marketing courses for college students.
Challenge: understand the company’s impact and set sustainability goals for the next year.
Outcome: create partnerships that support local enterprises in their marketing efforts, support refugees through training, create a culture code and diversity strategy, training program for employees and carbon reduction strategy for the online platform.
Core SDGs: 4
Instituto Tiê
Country: Brazil
Education company from promoting social transformation with empathy, authentic communication in a non-violent way.
Challenge
To understand the company’s impact and set sustainability goals.
Outcome
Commit to more inclusiveness through scholarship and free workshops, create payment transparency and foster team diversity, stronger governance with policies and processes, reduce unnecessary business travel and extensive paper use during the courses.
Core SDG
16, 10
Instituto Tiê
Education company from Brazil promoting social transformation with empathy, authentic communication in a non-violent way. Their main challenge was to understand the company’s impact and set sustainability goals. As outcome we had commit to more inclusiveness through scholarship and free workshops, create payment transparency and foster team diversity, stronger governance with policies and processes, reduce unnecessary business travel and extensive paper use during the courses. SDG16 was set as core SDG.
RE-D Learn
Country: Kenya Education company offering project based online marketing courses for college students. Challenge: understand the company’s impact and set sustainability goals for the next year. Outcome: create partnerships that support local enterprises in their marketing efforts, support refugees through training, create a culture code and diversity strategy, training program for employees and carbon reduction strategy for the online platform. Core SDGs: SDG4
Bora Surfar
Country: Portugal A peer-to- peer platform to sell and buy second-hand surf equipment and local services Challenge: embed sustainability in the growth strategy and be leader in circular surf industry in Portugal Outcome: clear roadmap for the next 12months focusing on transparency, develop sustainability thought leadership in the surf sector, community development through climate action and impact measurement. Core SGDs: SDG12 and 14
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Did you know that sustainability can
be your competitive advantage?
New Markets
U$ 12 trillion
is the value of economic
opportunities for sustainable
business models
Employee Engagement
86% of employees
would consider leaving an employer
whose values no longer met their
expectations
Building Trust
53% of consumers
are disappointed with brand’s words
and actions on social issues
Investor Awareness
One in four dollars
of professionally managed assets (amounting to USD 13 trillion) now consider sustainability principles
1. Better Business Better World – Business & Sustainable Development Commission 2017
2. https://www.pwc.com/co/es/publicaciones/assets/millennials-at-work.pdf
3. The rise of the purpose-lead brand – Accenture Strategy 2018
4. thegiin.org/assets/Sizing 20the 20Impact 20Investing 20Market_webfile.pdf
What is unique
about our approach?
Simplified
Sustainability is complex and can be overwhelming, we are here to help breaking it down and lift the overwhelm.
Collaborative
We work with your team as a whole, fostering engagement and ownership of tasks among co-workers.
One step at a time
We understand the struggle of small companies, our solutions offer a gradual transition. One small step today can lead to a big change tomorrow.
Who can use it?
- Start-ups, small or medium size organizations
- Accelerator or Incubator programs that are looking to embed sustainability and SDGs into idea and business development processes
- Independent consultants, facilitators in areas of sustainability, social innovation and impact measurement
- Mentors - to help mentees on embedding impact and sustainability in their business models
- Humans for other amazing reasons - Tell us if you applied our tools somewhere else
- Universities and Business Schools - Embedding practical sustainability methodology in business and management studies
What our clients say
Learning about sustainability and using the 4D Sustainability Canvas has helped us understand our impact and how to increase it as part of our business strategy. We plan to use the learnings and roadmap we have created to build a business that is more sustainability driven.
Lilian Warutere
founder of RE-D LEARN
The expectations were exceeded. It was a very powerful activation energy!
Carolina Nalon
founder of Instituto Tiê
The 4D canvas is a useful tool to broaden the perspective of organizations that want to understand their potential impact on different stakeholders throughout the value chain in terms of four key dimensions.
Ana Simaens
Assistant Professor | Deputy Director from Iscte Business School
We managed to gain a clear vision of the organization's impact, on a macro level, and we took the first steps that would have not been possible without the 4D Sustainability Canvas.
Jéssica Barcelos
from CLP Public Leadership
It helped me to understand in an empirical and simple way how we can be more sustainable and generate more positive impact in our value chain.
Alexandre Pinheiro
from La Gracia,
a communication consultancy from Brazil
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