Sustainability

Most people are aware that sustainability consists of economic, social and environmental elements and how WE manage those elements to ensure a sustainable future for the next generations. We, in MFA, believe the recognition and understanding that governance is an equally important component in the development and implementation of sustainability culture within organisations. This additional focus on the form and function of your organisation means that our solutions are more tailored, practicable, effective and deliverable.

Sustainability Assessments.
MFA have partnered with AXIS Performance Advisors, A USA based sustainability consultancy, who have developed SCORE (Sustainability, Competency, Opportunity & Reporting Evaluation Model) for conducting organisation specific sustainability assessments. The model has been revised by MFA to encompass Irish, UK and EU legislative and regulatory requirements. The model will enable organisations to benchmark their performance, identify areas for improvement and provide a long term strategy for full sustainability.

Carbon Foot Printing.
Carbon foot printing is the term used to describe the amount of green house gases (GFC) caused by a particular activity or entity and is the accepted methodology for organisation and individuals to assess their contribution to climate change. Understanding these emissions, where they come from is necessary in order to reduce them. In the past companies looking to measure them focused on their own emissions, but now they are concerned with emissions across their whole supply chain. Many of the larger companies, with large supply chains, e.g. Wal-Mart, Proctor and Gamble, Baxter are mandating their suppliers to complete CFP assessments and develop and agree plans for improvement as a requirement for purchasing their products and services.

Corporate Social Responsibility
Sustainable business for organizations means not only providing products and services that satisfy the customer, and doing so without jeopardizing the environment, but also operating in a socially responsible manner. Pressure to do so comes from customers, consumers, governments, associations and the public at large.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a model in which an organization acknowledges its accountability to its stakeholders and environment. In this context, the term “stakeholder” encompasses everyone the organisation affects, including the traditional investor and customer, corporate stakeholders, as well as employees, communities, suppliers, regulators, and society as a whole.

Eco-efficiency and Sustainable Production
Eco efficiency is a management philosophy that links financial and environmental performance to create more value with less ecological impact. Eco-efficiency enables more efficient production processes, creating better products and services while in turn reducing resource usage, waste and pollution along the production process.  In short it is about creating more value with less impact.
We in MFA are working with clients to implement organisation specific eco efficiency programmes to improve the productivity of resources, reduce environmental impacts and improve profitability.

What MFA can do.
We in MFA assist organisations address their social and environmental impacts. For some clients this can involve starting at the beginning in assessing their carbon footprint and their current readiness to go “green” For others it involves showing them how to communicate the “greening” of the organisation that they have already put in place.

We work with organisations that are committed to the principal of sustainability but necessarily do not have the staff or in house expertise to do it for themselves. If you have a dedicated resource working on sustainable issues we are probably not the partner you require.  But if you are struggling to understand the complexities of sustainability, corporate social responsibility, resource efficiency, carbon foot printing, translating your values into tangible initiatives we are the people to contact.  

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