Improving sustainability performance calls for integrated action on several fronts:

• Corporate commitment is essential to ensure that sustainability principles sit at the centre of an organisation's goals, policies and actions.
• Unless all staff and decision-makers understand and support this commitment, it will not be translated into the practical action needed to create to more sustainable communities.
• Knowledge of best practice solutions, and a willingness to seek out and improve on them, is a powerful driver of change.
• So too is the introduction of systematic approaches like environmental management systems to manage sustainability impacts.
• Everything an organisation buys, whether goods, materials or services, adds to these impacts.
• Systematically greening all contractual and procurement processes is the most effective step towards creating a sustainable organisation.

Improving sustainability can save money, but it can also cost. Even though most sustainable solutions eventually pay for themselves through reduced maintenance and more efficient resource use, finding money up-front can be a problem. Tracking and accessing support from funding programmes like those of the EU has to be a key aspect of any strategy to improve sustainability performance.

Global to Local is uniquely placed to meet all these requirements separately, or as a package, as part of our Sustainability Improvement Service. Our team of consultants has extensive skills, knowledge and experience in every aspect, founded on many years practical involvement with leading-edge organisations. During the six years we have been in business, we have built a large client base, vouching for the excellence of our Service. We particularly like working with clients to customise this Service to meet their specific needs and circumstances. As a result, we offer a complete Sustainability Improvement Service that can help you to:

• Mainstream sustainability into corporate procedures, policies and practices
• Meet all sustainability training and awareness-raising needsSource, visit, implement and improve on best sustainability practice
• Set up and maintain environmental management systems
• Green contracts, purchasing procedures and supply chain
• Secure EU and other funds for promoting sustainability
• Plan and run sustainability conferences, seminars and events
• Learn from, and work with, networks of sustainability practitioners.

If you want to find out more about specific aspects of our Sustainability Improvement Service, visit our other pages start here. For an overview of related projects click here.