Environmental Sustainability and Environmental Management Services

Sustainability means "meeting the needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

Sustainable business initiatives strive to grow business without extending
the use of natural resources beyond the environment¹s capacity to supply
them indefinitely, striking a balance between financial performance and
environmental/social performance. Factors that drive companies to pursue
sustainability, beyond the associated financial and environmental benefits,
include globalization, increased focus on corporate environmental
governance, enhancing corporate visibility, shareholder, community and media
review of business practices, requirements of customers and vendors, and
increased focus from investors and financial markets on responsible
eco-investing.

Leader assists companies with developing, implementing and reporting
sustainability strategies through the following services:

• Educating internal and external stakeholders
• Developing sustainability strategies
• Acquiring and validating sustainability data
• Preparing sustainability reports and corporate EH&S reports
• Performing sustainability audits and evaluations
• Design and implementation of environmental information management systems

Environmental Management Services

Businesses are operating in a climate of increasingly complex environmental
regulations, emerging international requirements, and pressure by external
stakeholders for transparency in social, economic and environmental
reporting. In this climate, it is essential that companies develop
environmental management practices backed by organizational commitment and
driven by performance evaluations and continual improvement. Proactive
environmental management systems can add value to the corporate bottom line
by enhancing reputation, reducing risk, creating community recognition,
avoiding costs, stimulating process innovation, improving worker
productivity and health, and improving relationships with regulators.

Leader assists clients in all phases of the environmental management
cycle‹designing, implementing, evaluating, and improving. Areas in which we
can help include the following:

• Supporting management commitment for environmental programs
• Informing and educating clients about industry trends through news
dissemination and management briefings
• Reviewing and recommending management systems
• Establishing management program goals and performance metrics
• Recommending and integrating IT systems for data collection and generation
of environmental or sustainability reports
• Communicating achievement, both internally and externally, through annual
reports, sustainability reports, newsletters, web-based and other media