Incentivising staff beyond the CSR/Sustainability team such as sourcing, production, buying and design to contribute towards improving environmental impacts ensures there is accountability for those within the company whose decision making has an influence.
In this question you are being asked to identify how executive pay, bonuses and/or performance reviews are tied to achieving absolute carbon reduction across the whole value chain.
Where to look for this information:
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Company documents
- Company policies
- Company websites
- Company code of conduct
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
Good keywords for your searches include:
- Incentives
- Performance reviews
- Bonuses
- Executive pay
Things to watch out for:
- We are looking for disclosure of how these incentives are implemented, it is not enough to say that they are in place
- With 'executive' we mean e.g. CEO, CFO, president