Sustainability Summit - Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Questionnaire
Where are you now in terms of sustainability?
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Reminder of what the SDGs are
They are 17 unified Global Goals to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
1. Details of your company and the products or services
Name of individual –

Name of company –

Contact details –

What products / services do you provide? 

Do you have any existing knowledge of SDGs?

Is your company doing anything already on SDGs?
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Biosphere Elements
The Biosphere element provides the life support systems upon which prosperity and development ultimately rest. Both society and the economy - a subsystem of society and, in turn, a subsystem of the Biosphere - should enable humanity to thrive within the means of the Biosphere.

Covers
SDG 15 – Life on Land
SDG 14 – Life Below Water
SDG 13 – Climate Action
SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
BIODIVERSITY / NATURE
QUESTION - Do you undertake any specific initiatives to protect or enhance biodiversity or nature at your site or within your local community? Please provide brief details below. This could include planting bee-friendly / wildlife-friendly plants, having a wildlife-friendly garden, having a policy to leave leaf litter rather than remove it, doing set no-dig years, doing No-Mow May / June / different month, hosting a beehive / pond / bee hotels, having a policy about your use of fertilisers / slug pellets / pesticides etc, conducting beach cleans etc. *
Do you use any harmful chemicals or pesticides within your operations? If you have a gardening team, have you checked with them what they use around your property? Do you buy locally sourced products and have checked with the owner whether they have used chemicals? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
We do not use chemicals at all. 
If YES, do you have targets to reduce the use of harmful chemicals or pesticides or replace with alternatives that are not harmful to the environment or nature? Tick which bullet applies to you.
Comments
If you have answered NO to the question above, can you say why you don't?
If yes, please outline your current baseline and reduction target for these chemicals or pesticides below
On a scale of 1 (not important at all) to 10 (extremely important / core to our business), how important is increasing biodiversity / looking after nature to your company and why?
WATER
Does your company take steps to measure water use in your operations? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
Comments
At Efeca, we don’t measure water use…
We are a small company renting an office within a shared building. We share the toilets with the building and we have a sink within our office for washing up / kettle. We are also careful about not overfilling the kettle (asking beforehand who wants a cup which benefits our water and energy consumption). That is all the water we use, so we have decided our water usage is negligible.
Are you the same? Do you get separate water bills or are in a shared building? Can you measure your water consumption?
Does your company have targets to reduce water use across your operations? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
Comments
If you have answered no to the question above, can you say why you don’t have water use reduction targets?
If yes, please outline your current baseline and reduction target for water usage below?
WASTE
Does your company measure waste generated across your operations? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
Comments
At Efeca, we don’t measure waste…

As previously mentioned, we are a small company of less than 10 people renting an office within a shared building. We recycle as much as possible – we take our teabags home to compost, we take our fruit peelings home as individuals, we recycle batteries separately, and BCP Council pick up our recycling (paper, plastic, metal food tins and drink cans, cardboard, plastic bottles and food packaging, glass bottles and jars, foil and drink cartons (Tetra Paks).

The “landfill” bin in our office is a small 20 litre bin and is emptied probably maximum of once a fortnight. That is all the waste we produce, so we have decided to review our action regularly rather than monitor/apply a strategy.
Are you the same as us?
If you have answered no to the question above, can you say why you don’t?
Does your company recycle waste generated across your operations? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
Comments
Do you have targets to reduce waste generated by your operations? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
Comments
If you have answered NO to the question above, can you say why you don’t?
If YES, please outline your current baseline and reduction target for waste below:
What does your waste consist of? What are your main waste streams? *
If you produce a lot of the same waste, say bubble wrap, would it be useful to create a forum that encourages circular economy as someone else could need your waste as a resource in their business.
PLASTICS (this is very much linked to waste)
Are you reducing your use of plastic within your business, or implementing a recycling approach for plastic? If so make sure you've told us about this in the section on waste above.
Is there Plastic Free Community initiative near to you, where businesses, organisations, schools, individuals et al avoid single-use plastic? *
Are you part of that community?
If you have answered NO to the question above, can you say why you are not?
If you have answered yes to the question, can you say why you joined?
At Efeca, we are not part of a Plastic Free Community
We are a small company giving technical advice and support to local, national and international clients. We do not use a lot of plastic, but any plastic we do have is either recycled through BCP Council or reused (for example, we go to a zero waste shop with our old handwash bottle and get it refilled).

Are you the same? Can you reduce your plastic usage through refilling, reusing, or thinking about things in a different way?
Society Elements
The Society element is a subsystem of the Biosphere.
Covers:

SDG 1 – No Poverty
SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
SDG 3 – Good Health
SDG 4 – Quality Education
SDG 5 – Gender Equality
SDG 7 – Renewable Energy
SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 16 – Peace and Justice

COMMUNITY
Please provide a brief overview of any activities or initiatives you undertake to invest in local communities or support charitable causes? Are there any initiatives you are involved in that help with any of the SDGs above? These could include for example, helping out at food banks / warm banks, school educational visits (where either you go in and chat or students come to you), etc. You might for example, fundraise for them, offer your staff volunteering days to allow them to participate, or make people aware of them? *
Do you allow your staff to have volunteering days? *
At Efeca, we give back to the community through volunteering
We offer staff 30 hours of volunteering time each financial year, and they can use this however they would like, as long as the volunteering is for something that aligns with our values and ethics. Most take it as one hour per week, but some use it as one day per quarter. Examples include reading with children at a school, volunteering for Age UK’s telephone befriending services and volunteering for a local wildlife reserve.

We do group volunteering once a year. Last year we did a beach clean as part of the Surfers Against Sewage’s Million Mile Clean Up at Hengistbury Head in March.

Do you know of any initiatives that could do with some help? Would it be useful to have a forum so that people can see if extra volunteering help is needed?
ENERGY - NET ZERO / RACE TO ZERO: REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS
Do you currently use renewable energy, either through your own sources (solar panels, ground water heat pumps, wind turbines, air heat pumps etc) or do you purchase renewable energy? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
Comments
Want to know more about energy efficiency and renewable energy advice?
Talk to Low Carbon Dorset - they are currently offering FREE technical advice and financial support to local Business, Community and Public Sector organisations to deliver carbon reduction projects in Dorset. Whilst their 5 year funding from the EU comes to an end in March 2023, they have got additional funding to offer energy efficiency and renewable energy advice for SMEs and community groups throughout 2023. Contact them to find out more - http://www.lowcarbondorset.org.uk
Do you currently measure direct emissions from your owned or controlled sources (Scope 1 emissions)? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath.

Direct emissions from your owned or controlled sources (Scope 1s) include on-site energy like natural gas and fuel, refrigerants, and emissions from combustion in owned or controlled boilers, and furnaces as well as emissions from fleet vehicles (e. g. cars, vans, trucks). Scope 1 emissions encompass process emissions that are released during industrial processes, and on-site manufacturing (e.g., factory fumes, chemicals). *
Comments
Do you currently measure indirect emissions from purchased / acquired energy from for example Octopus or Ecotricity (Scope 2 emissions)? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
Want to know more?

We found the following websites really useful – go to https://smeclimatehub.org/ if you are an SME, or go to https://businessclimatehub.org/ for larger businesses. Here you will find carbon spreadsheets, and lots of free tools / resources to help you start measuring and monitoring.
Please provide details of your most recent annual CO2 emissions figures (as a total / in what financial year. If you have the figures in a different capacity, please describe, i.e., per person for baseline year etc). *
Don’t know where to start?
If it would be useful, we (Efeca) can tell you how we measured our emissions, what we included, how we gathered the data and what formula we used. We are an office based, service company, so this will be different to other companies. Tell us if you think that would be useful.
Have you set a publicly available target to reduce your emissions before 2030? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath. *
Comments
If you have said YES to the question above, please provide details of your current baseline and reduction targets for CO2 emissions below
Have you started to measure and/or report on Scope 3 emissions? Tick which bullet applies to you, and write your comments underneath.

Scope 3 emissions are the trickiest. In this category go all the emissions associated, not with the company itself, but that the organisation is indirectly responsible for, up and down its value chain. For example, from buying products from its suppliers, and from its products when customers use them. Emissions-wise, Scope 3 is nearly always the big one. *
Comments
Economy Elements
The Economy element is a subsystem of society which itself is a sub-system of the Biosphere.
Covers:
SDG 8 – Good Jobs & Economic Growth
SDG 9 – Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption & Production
WORKFORCE EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION – PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS OF EQUALITY ACT 2010 (1)

(1) These are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Do you have a specific commitment to workforce equality, diversity & inclusion within your business strategy? *
If you have answered YES to the question above, please provide brief details of any aims or targets set in relation to workforce diversity & inclusion
If you have a management team, what % are women?
What % of your workforce identify as women?
POLICIES
Does your company have formal written policies in place for any of the following elements of sustainability? Tick which ones you have *
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If 'OTHER' please state what other sustainable policies you have
COMPANY INITIATIVES
Does your company have any management frameworks, standards or certifications across its operations – for example, Investors in People, Living Wage Accreditation, Diversity Mark, B Corps Certification, Red Tractor, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Organisation of Responsible Businesses (ORB) and Dorset based GAIA scheme as well as Ethy accreditation? *
If yes, please provide details of what framework / standard / certification you have and the date you obtained it. If you are in the process of applying for something please let us know too.
Do you know of, or would you like to more about your local sustainability organisations – these include Transition Towns (Poole, Bridport, Dorchester, Weymouth & Portland), Sustainable Dorset, Sustainable Devon, Sustainable Seaton, DorsetCAN (Climate Action Network), Low Carbon Dorset, Low Carbon Devon, Zero Carbon Dorset, Devon Environment Foundation, Litter Free Dorset and Planet Purbeck.

They have lots of information publicly available on projects they are involved in (for example, DorsetCAN’s Great Big Dorset Hedge) and how you can get involved around issues that are specific to Dorset.
FREE UK INITIATIVE – Efeca runs the UK Sustainable Commodities Initiative (SCI), including the UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil (since 2012) and the UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soy (since 2018). One of the key objectives of the SCI is to support increased transparency and traceability of these commodity supply chains to the UK. If you are interested in finding out more, accessing free resources and potentially becoming a Roundtable member tick the Yes bullet point and we will be in contact. *
FREE INITIATIVE – For those who use / serve / sell food, would you consider joining the Dorset Sustainable Palm Oil Community initiative. It is free, and is aiming to make Dorset the world’s first sustainable palm oil county by asking businesses and organisations who deal with food to ensure that there is only sustainable palm oil and not conventional palm oil in your food products. Efeca runs it (pro-bono) so tick the Yes bullet point and we will be in contact to tell you more about the initiative. *
Based on your answers above, what SDGs / areas would you like to focus on this year?
Questions for Efeca
What additional information would help eg training?

Is there anything you are doing that isn’t covered above?
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