"The UN estimates global e-waste (disposed electronic goods such as computers and mobile phones) amounts to about 40 million tonnes a year, and it contains many toxic materials such as lead, arsenic and mercuty. The European Environment Agency has calculated that the volume of e-waste is rising about three times faster than any other form of municipal waste."

BBC article, 2007

“CEOs could point out that profits should not be seenas an end in themselves, but rather as a signal from society that their company is succeeding in its mission of providing something people want—and doing it in a way that uses resources effi ciently relative to other possible uses.”

Ian Davis, Worldwide Managing Director, McKinsey & Company

The Process

Presentation PhotoThe Sustainability Challenge is a software product that is used in a face-to-face group training environment. The vibrant, engaging interface of the Challenge is projected onto a screen and the process is run by a skilled facilitator.

You can retain one of Sustainability Challenge International’s many licensed facilitators to deliver Sustainability Challenge sessions for you. Alternatively, you can purchase a license and run Sustainability Challenge sessions internally with your own facilitators.

  • Participants compete in teams to answer a series of challenging questions about sustainability. Questions have been carefully researched and designed to generate debate and discussion, creating a stimulating and engaging process where no participant is left unoccupied.
  • The content itself is rigorously researched by our team of experts and ratified by the National Centre for Sustainability and/or Baker & McKenzie/LawInContext (in the case of legal content). It varies in complexity and covers a wide range of subject areas; thus the same format can be used at any level or with any group in your organisation.
  • Sustainability Scorecards and leading questions help participants to apply the learning from each scenario to your organisation specifically, and begin developing strategic plans about how to address these issues at a systemic level.
  • The Sustainability Challenge gathers valuable data in the form of votes on priority issues, individual responses to audit questions (via use of Audience Response Keypads), and team recommendations on strategies for addressing the priority issues identified. All this information is gathered into automatic reports generated by the software for easy consumption.

This process challenges participants’ understanding of the issue and force them to confront what sustainability means to their organisation, and then to apply what they have learned into creating a blueprint for the organisation’s next steps in becoming sustainable.

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