5.3 Inform, raise awareness, and train for sustainability

Business Strategy And Product Management

Drive sustainability awareness both externally and internally with active encouragement and routine training offered where necessary.

Criteria

Inform and aware:
Produce, provide, and/or facilitate the delivery of onboarding materials and workshops to everyone connected to your project. This includes team members, contributors, colleagues, and organizational decision-makers – both within and external to the organization – to properly educate all regarding general and digital climate literacy, as well as your own sustainable technology policies.
Routine training:
Provide active and routine training where possible to develop, establish, and refresh skills relating to sustainability. This can be delivered as in-house training, courses, workshops, events, webinars, meetups, or other ongoing or on-demand methods that support your team in achieving sustainability objectives.
Active participation:
Encourage participants to reduce their environmental impact. Share climate and sustainable initiatives and ideas. Provide resources on sustainable design, best practices, and concepts to assist them.
Training materials:
Create and/or deliver dedicated training manuals, workshops, and materials to outline the sustainability policies and practices adopted and how to implement them. Manage and maintain these materials over time, adapting them as new policies and best practices arise.
Incentivize progress:
Incentivize leadership, teams, and individuals to make progress toward the goals outlined in their training. Examples include dedicating time for sustainability-related activities, recognizing completion, and other benefits.

Benefits

Economic
Providing sustainability training and onboarding practices has been shown to lead to higher retention rates, improved performance, and improved systems for maintaining business continuity.
Environment
Keeping your team informed and educated may promote systemic change in the way they build, the way they manage their work and technical infrastructure, and even the way they do business or live their day-to-day lives – even outside the workplace.
Operations
Publishing clear sustainability goals and sharing resources encourages organizational affected parties to examine their own current status quo and make their own progress.

GRI

Materials: Medium
Energy: Medium
Water: Medium
Emissions: Medium

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5.3 Inform, raise awareness, and train for sustainability

Criteria

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