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Sustainability guide for exporters

This guide explains how opportunities provided by an understanding of sustainability are vital to the success of your export business.

Today, the world’s successful businesses are becoming sustainable, meeting present needs, without compromising their ability to meet the needs of the future. This is essential as pressure on people and raw materials continues to increase rapidly.

Sustainability simply takes efficiency and productivity to their logical conclusion.

    Sustainable innovation

    Sustainable innovationThis world’s drive towards sustainability has created one of the biggest new global markets for goods and services. Businesses that adapt fastest to this reality and explore the opportunities it represents will be the most profitable in years to come.

    People power

    People power (TRANZ/Corbis)

    Sustainable export success is based on making the people who work for you happy. Then they will make the people they serve happy: your customers.

    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

    Corporate social responsibility (CSR)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to an organisation's commitment to operating in an ethical way that takes into account profit, and people and planet.

    Create a sustainable supply chain

    Supply chain

    Your export business is a supply chain connecting suppliers and customers, and it is only as strong as each of its links. Creating a sustainable supply chain protects your profits by building security and traceability into every connection you make.

    Supply chain transparency and benchmarking

    Supply chain transparency and benchmarking (TRANZ/Corbis)Failure to protect your intellectual property (IP) rights risks your profits and the sustainability of your supply chain, as counterfeit products can hijack parts of your distribution network.

    Credibility, certification and ecolabels

    Credibility, certification and ecolabelsAs sustainability credentials become big business, a growing number of certification schemes (ecolabels) like ‘organic’ and ‘Fairtrade’ are being created all over the world. 

    The business of waste

    The business of wasteWaste creates costs with no benefit to your business. That’s why efficiency, sustainability and waste minimisation go hand in hand. Meanwhile, dealing with the waste from others, especially where it involves recycling and reuse, is a growing worldwide industry.

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