Sustainability Policy Statement

Updated as per March 4, 2022

This policy applies to the Institute for Sustainability and Agility (ISA) including its employees, associates, facilitators, communities, and third parties who undertake activity for and on behalf of ISA. It applies to the goods and services we procure, our direct operations and the services we provide to our customers and partners. ISA is committed to creating a sustainable society actively managing our operations in a way that balances our social, environmental, economic, and well-being objectives. To do this, sustainability considerations are tied throughout a suite of interdependent policies and their procedures, which are implemented collectively in order to deliver the objectives of the Sustainability Policy.

Purpose

To provide an effective framework for realising ISA’s commitment to creating a sustainable society by protecting and where possible enhancing the social, environmental, well-being and economic impacts, empowering partnership for the goals, providing quality education, and driving sustainable economic development for a better world.

Policy

ISA is Indonesia's leading Sustainability Education and Consultancy with a mission to inspire excellence and make a difference. Our vision is to inspire, educate, and collaborate with individuals and organizations in achieving sustainability.

In recognising this, ISA is committed in contributing to a more sustainable society and to continually improve and build positive impacts by ensuring:

  • Compliance with all relevant legislation and standards, and the expectations of our customers, partners and other key stakeholders;
  • Continually to develop our products and services to enhance the sustainability initiatives for our customers, partners and other key stakeholders;
  • Continually review how we can make improvements to our sustainability performance;
  • Operate sustainably and strive to reduce waste, prevent pollution, and minimise resource consumption in all of our systems and procedures;
  • Continually to encourage our employees, customers, partners and other key stakeholders to support our sustainability commitments;
  • Continually educate, inspire and engage employees on implementing sustainability at home, work, and throughout their communities through a combination of employee communications, learning sessions, and hands-on opportunities;
  • Continually to create healthy, collaborative and innovative work environments for our key stakeholders through sustainable operations and certifications whenever possible;
  • Report results of our sustainability program to our employees, customers, partners and communities and other key stakeholders on an annual basis;
  • Continually improve tracking of sustainability metrics throughout our operations.
To realise our sustainability objectives ISA recognises the need for and is committed to communicating these objectives to our employees, customers, partners and communities and other key stakeholders. This is achieved via our procurement processes, and our existing communication channels to employees including the business plan, newsletters, team briefings.

This policy and the actions arising from it will be annually reviewed as part of the business planning process which involves ISA’s leadership and management teams, with final approval via the ISA Board.

Environmental Policy Statement

This policy applies to the Institute for Sustainability and Agility (ISA) including its employees, associates, facilitators, communities, and third parties who undertake activity for and on behalf of ISA. It applies to the goods and services we procure, our direct operations and the services we provide to our customers and partners. ISA operates within a suite of interdependent policies and their procedures, which are implemented collectively in order to deliver the objectives of the Environmental Policy.

Purpose

To provide an effective framework for realising ISA’s commitment to protecting and where possible enhancing the environment by reducing the environmental impacts, preventing pollution, mitigating and adapting to climate change and a low carbon future.

Policy

ISA is Indonesia's leading Sustainability Education and Consultancy with a mission to inspire excellence and make a difference. Our vision is to inspire, educate, and collaborate with individuals and organizations in achieving sustainability. Our main activities are Research and Publication, Stakeholder Engagement & CSR Implementation, Academic Research and Review, Sustainability Awards, Consultative Research, Policy Research, White Papers, Tools Development, Case Study Writing, and Sustainability Education. ISA recognises that its activities impact the environment in a number of ways, principally through our use of:

  • Energy (our office building, business travel)
  • Paper
  • Information Communication and Technology (ICT) tools
In recognising this, ISA is committed in contributing to protect the environment and continually improving its environmental performance by ensuring:
  • Compliance with all relevant legislation and standards, and the expectations of our customers, partners and other key stakeholders;
  • Continually to encourage our employees, customers, partners and other key stakeholders to support our environmental commitments;
  • Our systems and procedures prevent pollution;
  • Continually minimise harmful emissions to air, land and water;
  • Continually review how we can make improvements to our environmental performance;
  • Continually to develop the ability to measure and reduce emissions by encouraging our employees, customers, partners and communities and other key stakeholders to commit to low-carbon commuting;
Our actions to protecting environment, specifically includes:
  • Reduce business travel miles through better journey planning;
  • Reduce our employee travel by prioritizing virtual meetings over offline meetings;
  • Reduce energy consumption across our office and company operations;
  • Reduce paper consumption through employees’ awareness and increase use of electronic communication and cloud data storage;
  • Ensure that all waste electrical & electronic equipments are reused or recycled where possible;
  • Monitor water consumption and reduce leakage and eliminate unnecessary and excessive use;
  • Reduce and minimise our use of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) tools.
To realise our environmental objectives ISA recognises the need for and is committed to communicating these objectives to our employees, customers, partners and communities and other key stakeholders. This is achieved via our procurement processes, and our existing communication channels to employees including the business plan, newsletters, team briefings.

This policy and the actions arising from it will be annually reviewed as part of the business planning process which involves ISA’s leadership and management teams, with final approval via the ISA Board.