Green Business Guide
Businesses must incorporate principles of sustainability into their decisions to reduce their negative impacts on the environment. This comprehensive report provides practical guidance on how businesses can achieve this, and ensure profitability and environmental responsibility through sustainable practices.
Green businesses seek to balance profit with the health of the planet. They incorporate principles of sustainability into their business decisions in order to reduce their negative impacts on the global or local environment. They do this by selling environmentally friendly products or by greening their processes to make them more environmentally sustainable.
This guidebook offers practical advice for entrepreneurs who want to start or improve a sustainable business. It outlines the benefits of going green and provides a step-by-step approach to creating a green business, focusing on greenhouse gas emission reduction, life cycle management, resource efficiency and cleaner production, environmental management systems and environmental certification. The guide also explores green value chains, circular economy and offers further support and resources for green businesses.
The Green Business Guide is developed by ITCILO, GIZ, UNEP and ILO.
This guidebook offers practical advice for entrepreneurs who want to start or improve a sustainable business. It outlines the benefits of going green and provides a step-by-step approach to creating a green business, focusing on greenhouse gas emission reduction, life cycle management, resource efficiency and cleaner production, environmental management systems and environmental certification. The guide also explores green value chains, circular economy and offers further support and resources for green businesses.
The Green Business Guide is developed by ITCILO, GIZ, UNEP and ILO.