Carbon and Sustainability Management

Both international and local pressures are being brought to bear on all business operations, including agriculture, to adapt to the environmental and socio-economic demands of “best practice” in order to take advantage of global market opportunities. In today’s age it is imperative that agribusiness include corporate and community social investment as a strategic and integral part of the business model for sustained growth and profitability.

Agri-IQ add value to agribusiness, through the skills and knowledge they bring, as facilitators of dynamic growth and change in building responsive and appropriate business capabilities in the ever-changing business climate. Agri-IQ use a systems based, holistic approach in all interventions in order to ensure that client organisations achieve sustainable socio-economic and environmental compliance and performance results, both internally and externally.

Carbon management includes:

• a comprehensive appraisal of the organisation’s existing practice in terms of carbon footprint
• design of carbon footprint reduction strategy and action plans
• an indicative Sustainability Index rating
• assessment of, negotiation for and prioritisation of risk/return benefits of different carbon credit options
• monitoring and Sustainability Index rating to ensure compliance for full benefits

Sustainability management includes:

• designing and building a sustainability strategy and action plan
• a system to track and measure key sustainability measurements using recommended methodologies
• an analytical Sustainability Index rating