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Check your supply chain to make sure you're funding sustainable organisations.

Steps you can take

Green your pensions

While many pension providers are giving more options for their customers to invest ethically with them, some still invest their pension funds with fossil fuel companies.

As an employee, you should be aware of where your pension fund is being invested, and what control you have over this. As an employer, you could consider the environmental standing of different pension providers, and share this information with your staff so they can make an informed decision about how they control their pension.

You can take this further and think about what banks you use, and what they invest in.

Check your partners' policies

One way to encourage good environmental practise across the sector is to make sure you check the environmental sustainability policies of your partners, providers, and suppliers. This could range from using a venue for an event, to when you partner with another charity on a major project, to when you receive funding from an organisation. This will help you make sure you're working with organisations who you can trust to protect both the environment and your reputation, and should be treated as part of due diligence.

If a partner you work with doesn't have a sustainability policy yet, encourage them to write one. You can find a template on our resources page. Make sure you share your own policy with your partners as well!

Use eco products and packaging

If your organisation provides retail services, and if you're posting products to people, consider the environmental impact of your products and packaging. There are now lots of alternatives to carbon intensive and environmentally harmful goods. Customers also now see environmentally-beneficial products as a selling-point in their own right, and some may avoid buying products without a guarantee of their eco-credentials.

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