The Environmental Stewardship Strategy presents a new corporate environmental management approach – one that reflects the realities and implications of the host of global environmental challenges, while integrating these into a truly holistic, comprehensive strategy. The strategy was developed to provide guidance to companies on comprehensive environmental stewardship strategies to address issues such as climate change, water resource protection, deforestation, toxic waste, loss of biodiversity and long-term damage to ecosystems. While the 8-step strategy offers guidance on topics like innovation, cooperation, education and self-regulation, it also offers a framework for firms to facilitate a recommitment to and comprehensive implementation of the principles. The Environmental Stewardship Strategy builds on the success of Caring for Climate and the CEO Water Mandate programs, and encourages companies to facilitate a recommitment to and comprehensive implementation of the principles. The Strategy is informed by research, tested by practitioners and designed to help all corporate leaders generate value from successful management of its relationship with the environment.
