![]() Three questions can help us decide strategically on priorities here and this will be the topic of another video. With the end in mind, we can suggest solutions that will help us create the sustainable future we want for ourselves.ĭ- Decide on priorities: This step is about choosing between the solutions proposed in the previous step and deciding which ones are most strategic while allowing for tactical flexibility. Using backcasting is very powerful here! It prevents us from proposing only solutions to problems we have today. The vision includes complying with the 4 sustainability principles but also our core purpose and our core values. ![]() It also includes an assets inventory and an evaluation of stakeholder relationships.Ĭ- Compelling vision: This is about creating a sustainability vision and imagining potential solutions to the challenges identified in the baseline assessment. It usually includes a sustainability impacts analysis to identify key infractions of the 4 sustainability principles and key sustainability challenges. It’s about completing a diagnosis of our current situation. Sounds obvious but often people use different definitions.ī- Baseline – Assessing current reality: This is where we are today. If we combine backcasting from sustainability principles with some common strategic planning methods that you may already know, we get a simple step-by-step approach to strategic sustainability planning in 4 steps:Ī- Awareness: First we need to make sure that we have a common language in our team, our department or our organization and that we all agree on what it means to play the ‘game’ of sustainability and what the rules of the game are. Achieving checkmate and winning the sustainability game can be described as complying with 4 scientific sustainability principles that have been peer reviewed and continuously refined over the last 20 years. ![]() Using backcasting from principles of success can help us adopt a different way of thinking to achieve sustainability.This is another simple yet powerful sustainability tool: a simple 4-step approach to create effective and rigorous sustainability plans: ABCD. ![]()
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