The cost of carbon will be an additional price to pay in the business landscape in the very near future with increased momentum to reduce and control greenhouse gas emissions. Energetics One2Five® Carbon is a diagnostic management tool that helps business address the impact of a carbon price on business strategy.
Companies that act now to understand the issues will be better placed to mitigate business risks and take advantage of new business opportunities.
One2Five® Carbon identifies strengths in the business and areas requiring improvement, including direct carbon exposure, supply chain management and stakeholder engagement.
Achieving your objectives
A critical action plan is presented to assist your organisation in addressing critical issues that impact your progress towards business improvements. The actions are designed to be practical to provide you with a realistic pathway to ensure implementation and achieve your strategic objectives.
Addressing business issues
Addressing business strategy within a carbon-constrained economy presents a fundamental shift in the way businesses have typically operated. To achieve strategic competitive advantage, today’s organisations face a number of key issues:
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What is your direct carbon cost liability and how will be passed through the supply chain?
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Where does your exposure to carbon risk lie within the business?
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How will you manage carbon risk?
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What will be the impact of existing and new government policies?
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What investment should you make in carbon abatement projects?
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What technologies should you use? How will innovation affect you?
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What are the new business opportunities to be explored?
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Is your business ready for a low carbon economy?
Engaging senior decision makers
One2Five® Carbon engages senior decision makers at the beginning of the strategic business planning process. All One2Five® sessions are conducted in an interactive management workshop with the senior management team.
This ensures a common understanding of key issues, alignment with business objectives and agreement on actions to be implemented program.
Enhancing your reputation
One2Five® Carbon provides incentives for businesses to change by reaching star ratings that indicate stages of improvement and achievement. The star levels not only encourage businesses to continuously improve their practices, but also act as a visual indicator of a company's level of environmental excellence. Businesses also use the system to raise their credentials and demonstrate that they are acting responsibly to consumers and stakeholders.
About One2Five®
One2Five® Carbon is a structured diagnostic session run with the organisation’s senior decision makers every 6 to 12 months, providing the opportunity to assess and evaluate your progress. One2Five® Carbon identifies strengths and weaknesses and provides a critical action plan for business improvement.
One2Five® Carbon features web-based benchmarking which enables your organisation to proactively benchmark its performance between different sites or externally against more than 1,700 users of the One2Five® diagnostics internationally.
Energetics One2Five® Energy diagnostic is designed to help businesses to easily assess their current energy management performances, benchmark against best practice, and develop a program for continuous improvement. One2Five® assists companies to secure savings from a structured energy management program within their organisation.
As businesses transition to a carbon-constrained economy and rising energy prices continue to put pressure on business expenditure, best practice energy management plays a fundamental role in combating these issues.
Reducing costs and mitigating your risk
Energy efficiency is the most cost effective way to reduce emissions. It enables you to:
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Drive productivity gains linking directly to profit margins
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Reduce the need to buy pollution permits, under the CPRS
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Reduce carbon cost – direct and flow through costs
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Minimise exposure to energy price fluctuations
Gaining compliance and identifying opportunities
Energetics assists clients to understand their compliance requirements and minimise their energy costs by establishing systems and programs that deliver continuous improvement in energy management. Through the use of One2Five®, clients benefit from identifying cost effective opportunities and realising outcomes that improve their bottom line.
Building your capacity
By using One2Five®, clients are able to secure senior management buy-in, build competencies to continuously improve the way in which they manage energy and achieve significant savings.
Your climate change strategy
One2Five® Energy is an effective starting point for establishing strategic objectives to tackle energy management. Our unique approach allows you to integrate energy management into your existing business management systems for managing quality, safety, environment and reliability.
Benchmarking drives business improvement
One2Five® Energy allows clients to assess their energy management performance, providing the opportunity to assess and evaluate your progress. Periodic review enables you to identify a new set of critical actions to assist your organisation in progressing along its climate change journey.
A proven solution
Sydney Water Corporation Energy Savings Action Plans Sydney Water Corporation employed Energetics One2Five® Energy to conduct energy management reviews at key sites. The results of the diagnostics were mapped against the key elements required the Department of Environment and Climate Change Energy Savings Action Plans (ESAPs) guidelines. Energetics developed energy management action plans to assist Sydney Water in meeting their objectives. Energetics One2Five® Energy helps sites to assess their management systems and develop a Management plan towards continuous improvement.
About One2Five®
One2Five® Energy is a structured diagnostic session is run with the organisation’s senior decision makers every 6 to 12 months, providing the opportunity to assess and evaluate your progress. One2Five® identifies strengths and weaknesses and provides a critical action plan for business improvement.
All Energetics One2Five® products feature web-based benchmarking which enables your organisation to proactively benchmark its performance between different sites or externally against more than 1,700 users of the One2Five® diagnostics internationally.
Climate change is driving organisations to examine the extent to which their businesses rely on water. Water related risks revolve around business water use and community perception. The One2Five® Water diagnostic management tool addresses strategic business management issues with relation to water.
Water related risks revolve around business water use and community perception. The impact varies subject to an organisation’s level of public exposure and social licence to operate.
The One2Five® Water diagnostic management tool addresses strategic business management issues with relation to water. Energetics’ diagnostic tool identifies areas of strengths and others requiring improvement on a range of water issues including water efficiency, alternative water sources and business engagement. The environmental profile of an organisation and its compliance with regulations is often determined by how well it manages water.
Reducing costs and mitigating your risk
Water can be a significant expense in terms of water supply, disposal, product loss and site infrastructure. In recognition of these pressures, organisations are increasingly strengthening their policies and risk management programs for resource management. Improving the management of resources such as water can deliver significant bottom line savings and minimise your risk exposure.
Achieving water savings
As a diagnostic tool, One2Five® Water is designed to help organisations in establishing effective processes for managing water and achieving significant and sustainable savings in water use, and wastewater generation. Based on an internationally recognised star rating system, One2Five® Water encourages businesses to continuously improve their practices and strive for higher levels of achievement.
Instilling consumer confidence
As a visual indicator of an organisation’s level of environmental excellence, the star rating enables businesses to raise their credentials and demonstrate to consumers and stakeholders that they are acting responsibly.
A proven solution
Sydney Water
For nearly 10 years, Energetics has been supporting Sydney Water in reducing water use amongst its customer base to achieve its abatement objectives.
The diagnostic assessment provide customers with a concise analysis of their current performance (based on a one to five rating), as well as benchmarking information and a prioritised action plan.
Sydney Water’s award winning Every Drop Counts Business Program is now the leading water efficiency management program in Australia. The methodology is underpinned by Energetics’ management tools and aims to improve engagement at a senior level to drive changes in culture and management practices. The business program has over 400 participants, saving greater than 40ML/d being Sydney Water’s most cost effective demand management program.
Water Corporation
Water Corporation’s Market Development Group conducted a pilot program amongst five major customers to encourage SME customers to undertake self-assessment of their water use and the development of sustainable water reduction strategies. The pilot program used Energetics One2Five® Water, which recorded high levels of user satisfaction in terms of relevance to their business and value in understanding and improving water management. Participants also expressed a high level of satisfaction that the Water Corporation was enhancing business relationships through the use of One2Five® Water, which has since been expanded to a further 50 business customers .
About One2Five®
One2Five® Water helps organisations to assess their climate change performance and implement strategy in line with corporate objectives. Through a structured diagnostic session with your organisation’s senior decision makers, One2Five® Water identifies strengths and weaknesses and provides a critical action plan for business improvement.
One2Five® Water features web-based benchmarking which enables your organisation to proactively benchmark its performance between different sites or externally against more than 1,700 users of the One2Five® diagnostics internationally.
Energetics One2Five® Sustainability diagnostic management tool helps businesses to examine sustainability as a strategic business management issue.
A sustainability diagnostic session identifies an organisation’s strengths and areas requiring improvement on a range of sustainability issues, including environmental sustainable practices in energy, water and waste, supply chain management and stakeholder engagement.
One2Five® Sustainability is designed to help businesses
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Evaluate business risk issues related to environmental sustainability management
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Build effective management systems to control energy, water usage and waste generation
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Drive continuous and sustainable improvement in environmental sustainability management
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Reduce energy, water use and waste generation with a step-by-step process for immediate improvement in environmental sustainability management
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Reduce cost by saving energy, water and reducing waste
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Engage stakeholders through a dynamic interactive workshop with the management team and stakeholders
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Plan and act supported by an immediate action plan
Engaging senior decision makers
One2Five® Sustainability aims to engage senior decision makers at the beginning of the program to increase the likelihood of implementing the improvement actions identified by the diagnostic session. All One2Five® sessions are conducted in an interactive management workshop with the senior management team.
By taking a holistic approach, One2Five® Sustainability helps senior managers to understand the effectiveness of current environmental sustainability practices and identify critical actions for improvement. Additionally, they are provided with a structured framework to achieve continuous improvement in environmental sustainability. The processes are designed to help a business integrate environmental sustainability into their existing quality, environmental and/or safety programs.
Enhancing your reputation
One2Five® Sustainability provides incentives for businesses to change by reaching star ratings that indicate stages of improvement and achievement. The star levels not only encourage businesses to continuously improve their practices, but also act as a visual indicator of a company's level of environmental excellence. Businesses also use the system to raise their credentials and demonstrate that they are acting responsibly to consumers and stakeholders.
A proven solution
NSW Department of Climate Change (DECC) – Sustainability Advantage - DECC utilises One2Five® Sustainability as an integral element within their Sustainability Advantage Program. The management diagnostic is used by department business advisers to assess participants’ management performance.
Zero Waste SA – Energetics supported Zero Waste South Australia (ZWSA). By embedding resource efficiency into standard business processes, ZWSA were able to realise opportunities. The program is currently in its initial phase. Around 25 diagnostic sessions with companies using the One2Five® tools have been completed.
About One2Five®
One2Five® Sustainability is a structured diagnostic session run with the organisation’s senior decision makers every 6 to 12 months, providing the opportunity to assess and evaluate your progress. One2Five® Sustainability identifies strengths and weaknesses and provides a critical action plan for business improvement.
All Energetics One2Five® products feature web-based benchmarking which enables your organisation to proactively benchmark its performance between different sites or externally against more than 1,700 users of the One2Five® diagnostics internationally.