Three Ways Finance Departments Do Sustainability With Big Impact

By David Schatsky on July 12, 2011 1 Comment banks, budget cycle, Budgets and Mastering the Art of Influence, capital project money, capital projects, corporate socila responsibility, corporate Sustainability: Organization Structures, CSR, finance, finance department, green treasury, paper, rate-of-return, risk-adjusted returns, sustainability, Sustainable 401K, Sustainable Business, treasury function, Yale University

Beyond the obvious move of going paperless, there are a number ways that finance departments can make sustainability part of its strategy. They include: allocating a pool of capital project money to the sustainability department, calculating risk-adjusted returns realistically, and having 401K plans that offer socially or environmentally responsible investment options.