This is what we learned last week

• We are facing serious climate problems, prompting some scary possible solutions.
• Consumers are using their purchasing power to show they want companies to be sustainable.
• Employees are frustrated and are leaving companies that don’t have strong sustainability programs.
• Larger companies are dropping vendors who cannot prove they are sustainable.
• Government sustainability regulations will impact companies in various ways.
• Companies that want to benefit from all this are becoming certified sustainable.
• Companies, and their clients, and their vendors, that are already certified are finding value and renewing.

Ignoring environmental demand, consumer demand, employee demand, new talent demand, investor demand, lender demand and greater growth and profit for a moment….

Will the CSRD affect your business?

Will the EU Climate Law affect your business?

Will Net Zero affect your business?

As we have been reporting for some time, and as stated here, the European Union (EU) Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which was signed into law in November 2022, will take effect in 10 months (the beginning of 2024).

This will require more than 50,000 large EU companies to disclose their ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) information.

This will also impact smaller EU companies and EU-subsidiaries of non-EU companies.

Roughly 97% of all large companies already have sustainability programs (the E in ESG).  Having a sustainability program mandates them to use sustainable vendors.  However, to-date, most have taken a relaxed approach to their supply chain, as they did not know about Edenark Group and felt their suppliers were unable to obtain a global sustainability certification at a price they could afford.

In prior posts, we reported the increased attention CEOs are now giving to sustainability, tasking their teams, inclusive of the Procurement Department, to adhere to their sustainability goals.  Expect this to translate to greater demand that their vendors (ie, you) prove their sustainability commitment (ie, show a certification or 3^rd party verification). 

For those of you who think you have skated past the CSRD, don’t forget about the EU Climate Law and Net Zero.

The EU Climate Law will require reporting on carbon emissions for larger organizations.  Remember, your company’s carbon emissions are your Scope 1, but they are your client’s Scope 3.  Any organization that is reporting on its carbon emissions and is also pursuing Net Zero needs to have its Scope 3 carbon emissions data, which, again, means you.

Net, there is a perfect storm of the CSRD, the EU Climate Law and Net Zero goals for organizations in, partially in, or serving those in, the EU.

Even if you have no involvement with the EU, expect the same from your clients elsewhere in the world that a) are deciding to adhere to their own sustainability mandates and/or b) are pursing Net Zero.   

If you want to get ahead of this and use it to your advantage, this PPP will show you how. 

Wholesale Payroll (https://wholesalepayroll.com/ ), a Marco Island, Florida customer-focused, feature-rich, do-it-yourself payroll platform company, has continued its environmental sustainability commitment by renewing and extending its Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification through 2023.

The Edenark Group ISO 14001 is the world’s premier environmental sustainability certification program and allows SMEs (small to mid-sized enterprises) the ability to attain the world’s most popular environmental certification standard via a program designed and priced specifically for them.   Edenark Group also helps clients pursue carbon neutrality and ESG compliance, using the Edenark Group ISO 14001 as a foundation for long term compliance.

The program, which allows companies to progressively improve at a pace that works for their needs, helps the organization define how it interacts internally, externally, and with the environment.  It incorporates energy/waste/water, employee health and performance enhancement, community involvement, procurement and suppliers, compliance and regulations, emergency/security, and stakeholder engagement.  Benefits include creating a culture of continual improvement, stakeholder engagement, lower costs, higher revenues and profits, improved employee performance, and…… doing the right thing for the environment and current and future generations.

“Helping our clients achieve their goals while also operating our company in a fashion that protects our community and environment, is at the core of the Wholesale Payroll culture.  We choose to be part of the solution and show other organizations how easy it is to grow your company while also doing good things for the world,” said CFO, James Murray, of Wholesale Payroll.

“Equally exciting, we are working with other organizations that have the same core beliefs.  We purchase services via DataSetGo, which has also renewed its certification (https://edenark.com/datasetgo-has-renewed-its-environmental-sustainability-certification-through-2023/ ); and we provide services to, among others, TruPayroll, which also has renewed its certification (https://edenark.com/trupayroll-has-renewed-its-environmental-sustainability-certification-through-2023/ ).  It is wonderful to work with vendors and clients that believe as you do: that you can provide superior service to clients and a wonderful work environment for employees; while also serving the greater good for your community and planet,” added Murray.

“In 2022, while also rebuilding from the impact of the pandemic, our team was able to complete a number of projects, including reduced travel, using social media to promote sustainability, elimination of plastic bottles, elimination of Styrofoam cups, and interacting with vendors and clients to suggest they become sustainable.  Further, the Green Team has an exciting list of projects scheduled for 2023,” added Murray.

“Edenark Group has a wonderful relationship with Wholesale Payroll and they are an example of what the world needs more of – an organization that produces a superior product, supports its current stakeholders, shows it cares about future generations via its commitment to sustainability certification, and makes more money due to its sustainability programs,” said David Goodman, CEO of Edenark Group.  “When an organization executes the Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification, as Wholesale Payroll is doing, it not only benefits the environment, but it also benefits its own operation and its clients,” added Goodman.

Wholesale Payroll (https://wholesalepayroll.com/ ) can be reached at +1.239.610.1096

Edenark Group (https://edenark.com ) can be reached at +1 561.512.2257

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Due to global warming:

• 50% of all coral reefs have died in the past 30 years. It took +100,000 years for the barrier reefs to form.  
• We are losing 1.2 trillion tons of polar ice each year…and the loss rate is speeding up.
• The 2022 Alaskan crab harvest was cancelled due to lack of crabs.

We could make the above list longer, but the point has been made. 

The question – What are you going to do about it?

That brings us to this article, including a CNN video, on ways to reduce our temperature via Solar Geoengineering

• Spraying aerosol particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight
• Seeding wispy clouds with aerosol particles so they trap less heat
• Spraying sea salt into low clouds over the oceans to make them more reflective
• Another idea, is to blow moon dust towards Earth to help shield us

Sound exciting?

Ready for the chain reaction of bad things that always happens when we try to dictate terms to Mother Nature?

No?

Then, how about us taking this into our own hands and reducing the need for these solutions?  Less than 1% of small to mid-sized companies are certified sustainable.  How about your company leading the way and showing we don’t need to blow moon dust towards Earth or spray aerosol into our atmosphere?

Send us a note via this link.  We are happy to talk about helping your company be part of the solution…..and we won’t use moon dust.

DataSetGo ( https://datasetgo.llc/ ), a Marco Island, Florida software company that creates customized solutions with enterprise-level features yet designed and priced to serve and scale with entry-level businesses, has continued its environmental sustainability commitment by renewing and extending its Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification through 2023.

The Edenark Group ISO 14001 is the world’s premier environmental sustainability certification program and allows SMEs (small to mid-sized enterprises) the ability to attain the world’s most popular environmental certification standard via a program designed and priced specifically for them.   Edenark Group also helps clients pursue carbon neutrality and ESG compliance, using the Edenark Group ISO 14001 as a foundation for long term compliance.

The program, which allows companies to progressively improve at a pace that works for their needs, helps the organization define how it interacts internally, externally, and with the environment.  It incorporates energy/waste/water, employee health and performance enhancement, community involvement, procurement and suppliers, compliance and regulations, emergency/security, and stakeholder engagement.  Benefits include creating a culture of continual improvement, stakeholder engagement, lower costs, higher revenues and profits, improved employee performance, and…… doing the right thing for the environment and current and future generations.

“Serving people and protecting our community is at the core of the DataSetGo culture.  We choose to walk the talk and be part of the solution,” said Jessica Anne Clarke, CEO of DataSetGo.  “Our software model allows our product to scale and grow as our client grows.  We like the fact that the Edenark Group ISO 14001 program follows the same philosophy of progressive improvement, allowing us to continue to grow and improve in our sustainability effort,” added Clarke.

“Further, and very exciting and satisfying for us, is we are a vendor to a company (TruPayroll –  https://edenark.com/trupayroll-has-renewed-its-environmental-sustainability-certification-through-2023/  ) which is also a certified sustainable business; and both organizations recognize this is an important component of each company’s DNA, impacting the other’s decision to pursue the relationship,” said Clarke.

“In 2022, while also rebuilding from the impact of the pandemic, our team was able to complete a number of projects, including cross training employees to reduce downtime and energy usage, reduced travel, replacing coaxial with fiber, digital invoices, elimination of plastic bottles, elimination of Styrofoam cups, and interacting with vendors and clients to suggest they become sustainable.  Further, the Green Team has an exciting list of projects scheduled for 2023,” added Clarke.

“Edenark Group has a wonderful relationship with DataSetGo and they are an example of what the world needs more of – an organization that produces a superior product, supports its current stakeholders, shows it cares about future generations via its commitment to sustainability certification, and makes more money due to its sustainability programs,” said David Goodman, CEO of Edenark Group.  “When an organization executes the Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification, as DataSetGo is doing, it not only benefits the environment, but it also benefits its own operation and its clients,” added Goodman.

DataSetGo  (https://datasetgo.llc/  ) can be reached at +1.239.610.1096

Edenark Group (https://edenark.com ) can be reached at +1 561.512.2257

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In this article, titled “Let’s be clear: ESG is not ‘woke’ and it’s different than sustainability, Julia Binder, PhD, Director of IMD’s Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business, gives a beautiful definitional difference between sustainability and ESG, and why this matters for business.

Per Dr. Binder

• ESG is primarily a risk management and investment framework that seeks to evaluate the financial risks that environmental, social, and governance factors pose for a company’s value. It adopts an “outside-in” perspective that is best described as an investor- and company-centric framework which seeks to de-risk portfolios and increase the economic resilience of a company. ESG is not about being “woke” or even doing good. It is a risk and investment management framework.
• Conversely, corporate sustainability adopts an “inside-out” perspective as it focuses on the impact a company has on the planet and society. The people- and planet-centric approach seeks to not only minimize harm, but to positively impact society and the environment.

Per this article by Barclays Bank, within the past 12 months, 21% of corporations surveyed cancelled contracts with their suppliers due to the supplier not meeting sustainability criteria.

The movement away from non-sustainable, to sustainable, vendors will accelerate as organizations become more demanding of their vendors in order to satisfy their own sustainability mandates.

A report from the CDP shows that less than 3% of suppliers surveyed have acceptable sustainability programs.  This creates tremendous opportunity for organizations that are certified sustainable, to take market share.

This article in Financial Management talks about businesses seeing that opportunity – to gain investor and customer loyalty, and also to attract talent, by becoming certified sustainable in order to differentiate from, and take market share from, their competitive peers.

We appreciate Construction Executive Magazine publishing the below article on how SMEs can use sustainability certification to differentiate, recover, and grow faster than their competitors.

Survival and success in the post Covid-19 ramp up will depend on an organization’s ability to cost-effectively differentiate from it’s competitors.  Sustainability certification is currently the best tool on the planet to do this.

https://www.constructionexec.com/article/covid-19-will-drive-smes-to-sustainability-certification

TruPayroll (https://www.trupayroll.com/ ), a relationship-driven, full service, payroll provider, located in Marco Island, Florida has continued its environmental sustainability commitment by renewing and extending its Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification through 2023.

The Edenark Group ISO 14001 is the world’s premier environmental sustainability certification program and allows SMEs (small to mid-sized enterprises) the ability to attain the world’s most popular environmental certification standard via a program designed and priced specifically for them.   Edenark Group also helps clients pursue carbon neutrality and ESG compliance, using the Edenark Group ISO 14001 as a foundation for long term compliance.

The program, which allows companies to progressively improve at a pace that works for their needs, helps the organization define how it interacts internally, externally, and with the environment.  It incorporates energy/waste/water, employee health and performance enhancement, community involvement, procurement and suppliers, compliance and regulations, emergency/security, and stakeholder engagement.  Benefits include creating a culture of continual improvement, stakeholder engagement, lower costs, higher revenues and profits, improved employee performance, and…… doing the right thing for the environment and current and future generations.

“I love helping people beyond my core corporate service.  We strive to have a positive impact on our clients’ personal lives, their businesses, and their community,” said Al Wagner, CEO of TruPayroll.  “This desire to help others is what caused me to become passionate about sustainability.  I want to be part of the global solution by making an impact in my community, for my family and my clients’ families.  The Edenark Group ISO 14001 program gives me that platform,” added Wagner.

“In 2022, while also rebuilding from the impact of the pandemic, our team was able to complete a number of projects, including cross training employees to reduce downtime and energy usage, reduced travel, programmable thermostats, digital invoices, elimination of plastic bottles, elimination of Styrofoam cups, and interacting with vendors and clients to suggest they become sustainable.  Further, the Green Team has an exciting list of projects scheduled for 2023,” added Wagner.

“Edenark Group has a wonderful relationship with TruPayroll and they are an example of what the world needs more of – an organization that produces a superior product, supports its current stakeholders, shows it cares about future generations via its commitment to sustainability certification, and makes more money due to its sustainability programs,” said David Goodman, CEO of Edenark Group.  “When an organization executes the Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification, as TruPayroll is doing, it not only benefits the environment, but it also benefits its own operation and its clients,” added Goodman.

TruPayroll  (https://www.trupayroll.com/  ) can be reached at +1.239.394.0358

Edenark Group (https://edenark.com ) can be reached at +1 561.512.2257

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5AM Global, LLC, d/b/a BREATHE!™ ( https://www.5AMGlobal.com/ ), a Nevada-based, strategic marketing and business management firm, which is producing the May 3-5, 2023 BREATHE!™ Convention, a WBCDMN (Web3, Blockchain, Crypto, Defi, Metaverse and NFT) convention that is committed to connecting the Web3 Universe, has decided to pursue the Edenark Group ISO 14001 environmental sustainability certification program.

The Edenark Group ISO 14001 is the world’s premier environmental sustainability certification program and allows SMEs (small to mid-sized enterprises) the ability to attain the world’s most popular environmental certification standard via a program designed and priced specifically for them. Edenark Group also helps clients pursue carbon neutrality and ESG compliance, using the Edenark Group ISO 14001 as a foundation for long-term compliance.

The program, which allows companies to progressively improve at a pace that works for their needs, helps the organization define how it interacts internally, externally, and with the environment.  It incorporates energy/waste/water, employee health and performance enhancement, community involvement, procurement and suppliers, compliance and regulations, emergency/security, and stakeholder engagement.  Benefits include creating a culture of continual improvement, stakeholder engagement, lower costs, higher revenues and profits, improved employee performance, and…… doing the right thing for the environment.

Shawn Willis, Founder & CEO of 5AM Global/BREATHE! Convention states “When I first read this quote: ‘The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit,‘ I immediately understood that whether personal or business, we all must understand the importance of making an impact. One way to do this in business is to lead with sustainable practices that help our environment, society, and economy. The company culture and processes of 5AM Global and its production of BREATHE! Convention are built around solutions to reduce waste, manage risk, personal and professional development, and philanthropy for our employees, clients, and strategic partners. The Edenark Group ISO 14001 Sustainability Certification will both help to hold us more accountable and help to inspire, motivate, and set a standard for other companies who aspire to take the same steps.”

“When an organization pursues, and attains, the Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification, they are not just doing it to see their costs go down and revenues and profits go up. They are setting a higher bar for their organization and sending a signal to all those around them,” says David Goodman, CEO of Edenark Group. “They are agreeing to adhere to the world’s gold standard for sustainability certification; are choosing to be a leader and part of the solution, not the problem; and are joining an elite fraternity of over 300,000 organizations, in over 150 countries, that have committed to continually improve in every way.”

5AM Global LLC d/b/a BREATHE!™ (https://www.5AMGlobal.com/ ) can be reached at +1 833.931.3128

Edenark Group (https://edenark.com ) can be reached at +1 561.512.2257

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