Esty Environmental Partners, the strategy consulting firm specialized in creating business value through environmental sustainability, today announced the launch of its Esty Environmental Scorecard™. The Environmental Scorecard is designed to help companies assess their sustainability strategies, performance, execution capability, and business results against peers in their industry, as well as against best practices. The goal is to find opportunities to cut costs, reduce risks, grow revenue, and enhance brand within specific industry constraints.

The debut of the Esty Environmental Scorecard™ coincides with the new The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function, co-authored by EEP founder Dan Esty and Corporate Eco-Forum Chair P.J. Simmons. The playbook provides hands-on practical advice for managing sustainability across the enterprise. It represents an execution-focused treatment of the value creation themes first introduced in the 2006 sustainable business strategy classic Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (by Dan Esty and Andrew Winston).

The Esty Environmental Scorecard™, which can be accessed at www.estyep.com/scorecard, is customized by size and type of enterprise (e.g., manufacturing or service). By assimilating high-level information about a subject company's environmental strategy, goals, and performance across key areas such as Governance & Leadership, Core Environmental Performance, and Marketing & Communications, the Esty Environmental Scorecard™ quickly pinpoints where the company leads or lags relative to others in the data set.

Currently the Environmental Scorecard includes data from more than 100 companies in ten industries: Apparel, Banking & Insurance, Energy & Industry, Personal Care, Manufacturing, Services, Chemicals, Transpiration, Food & Beverage, and Hospitality. While the Scorecard focuses on environmental strategy, it also includes broader aspects of sustainability. Completing the Scorecard questionnaire takes approximately one hour, and results are delivered immediately. Companies who wish to discuss their results or learn more about environmental sustainability strategy are welcome to contact Esty Environmental Partners at contact@estyep.com.

Together, the Green to Gold Business Playbook and the Esty Environmental Scorecard™ serve as powerful and inexpensive tools for companies seeking to start, improve, or refine their sustainability programs. The Playbook:

• Offers analytical business advice for gaining competitive advantage through sustainability action in buildings and operations, sourcing, manufacturing, marketing, accounting, and other key business functions.
  
• Shows in detail how each business function or department can achieve an eco-advantage over the competition.
  
• Provides frameworks, checklists, and action plans applicable to any business - big or small - in manufacturing or services.

The new Green to Gold Business Playbook has already received high praise. Unilever CEO, Paul Polman, commended the Playbook: "There are many books out there exhorting companies to reduce their environmental impacts, but very few that give detailed practical guidance. From product design to facilities management, from information technology to logistics and transport, this book contains insightful suggestions as to how businesses can be more sustainable, reduce carbon emissions, and yet at the same time save money and drive top line growth."

Esty Environmental Partners
Esty Environmental Partners (EEP) is a management consultancy working with corporate clients to build high-impact environmental strategies that create sustainable business value. EEP serves a range of companies, from Fortune 500 to small business, in diverse industries including apparel, financial services, industrial, and consumer packaged goods. EEP clients are executives whose responsibilities include corporate environmental affairs and sustainability, product line management, facilities management, and the highest levels of company or division general management. They engage EEP's team of experienced environmental and business professionals to help them build core capabilities, innovate, and differentiate their companies through environmental strategy. To learn more, please visit www.EstyEP.com.

Esty Environmental Partners

Esty Environmental Partners

Esty Environmental Partners (EEP) is a management consulting firm that helps companies build business advantage through strategic response to environmental challenges. Founded by Dan Esty, a global thought leader on business-and-environment, and author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, EEP provides clients with a systematic and comprehensive approach to capitalizing on the sustainability imperative. Our methodology is based on more than two decades of original research and successful engagements with dozens of global corporations. Working at the frontier of environmental management with leaders in a range of industries, we continually refine our best-practice frameworks and insights into how to successfully embed sustainability into the global enterprise. Our ongoing research projects and our dynamic network of clients, affiliates, and staff enable us to counsel clients on the most effective immediate and long-term strategies to reduce risk and costs, innovate, build brand, and grow revenue.

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