Sustainability

The Government's ongoing commitment to economic, environmental and social sustainability has introduced fresh challenges and opportunities for organisations within the public and private sector.

The drive to encourage sustainable communities has raised several significant policy and strategic issues that need to be addressed through collaboration.

Building economic sustainability into strategy development and project planning – as well as demonstrating how this has been done – are now important concerns for all organisations.

Within the public sector, the task is to integrate the preconditions for creating sustainable solutions into all stages of the policy lifecycle from case making and planning to implementation and evaluation.

Private sector firms must identify, measure and manage their economic contribution, as well as find new ways in which partnering can provide new sources of economic sustainability.

Potential issues

• Do you know what social and economic contribution your organisation makes to the community?
• Have you measured the economic impact of your investments (e.g. jobs/services created)?
• Have customers, employees, suppliers or other organisations raised concerns about your approach to sustainability?
• Do you want to engage with other organisations and other sectors in planning and implementing win-win regeneration of your community?

How we can support you

• Boosting knowledge and awareness of the economic contribution of organisations and projects.
• Building sustainable communities founded on economic diversity.
• Identifying, measuring and managing economic risks.
• Imbedding structures that help to ensure schemes will acquire necessary funding and approval.
• Helping to achieve a balance between business development and economic sustainability.
• Ensuring that long-term thinking is built into infrastructure strategies.
• Facilitating stakeholder engagement and partnering.

PwC's Economic Sustainability services include

• Sustainability economics
• Environmental advisory
• Sustainable procurement
• Energy and climate change
• Sustainable communities
• Regeneration, clusters and economic development.