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Farmer Charlie
Country: UK, Global
A UK based agritech start-up that brings connectivity, vital data and agribusiness to smallholder farmers around the world.
Challenge: Understand how the company can demonstrate its impact created for beneficiaries and adopt sustainable and circular business strategy throughout the entire value chain, including internal activities.
Outcome: Ensure transparency in the supply chain and make suppliers adhere to a code of conduct. Develop a thorough impact measurement process and communicate data on a regular basis to stakeholders (e.g measure soil degradation levels). Measure and reduce carbon footprint of own operations. Ensure on-time payment of employees and develop well-being KPIs for the staff.
Core SGDs: 15 and 08
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
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 SDGs: 16, 10
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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 SDG: 4
Woken Up
Country: UK
Global social media platform for social and environmental causes
Challenge: take sustainability to a next level of accountability and be able to communicate impact
Outcome: goals set to create sustainable procurement processes, diversity policy and code of ethics, better governance in terms of transparency and impact measurement, carbon footprint measurement and reduction strategy
Core SDG: 17
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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
The 4D process provides a 360 degrees review and allows for concrete actions, with a clear aim to contribute to the SDGs.
Betty Bonnardel
CEO and founder of Farmer Charlie
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 | 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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