Report #4 Environment | Harvey Stories

Environment

Climate continues to keep us up at night. It’s why we choose to work with organisations with climate action at its sole purpose, do what we can in our operations to reduce our carbon footprint and continue to advocate and create change through ESG consulting with The Business Pickle. An area where we dropped the ball is our donation to climate this year due to our financial position.

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Honestly, it’s not looking good, but here is hope, together.

The planetary boundaries concept presents a set of 9 planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come; things like CO2 concentration, ozone layer, ocean acidification, biosphere integrity and freshwater. I remembered as a kid in the ‘80s and ‘90s the Ozone layer was broken, it was a massive problem. In 1987, countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty which marked the end of CFCs. It felt like an impossible problem to solve, but turns out it wasn’t.

Where are we today? The Ozone layer has healed massively and is on track to be back to full health by 2040. It was a hard and bumpy journey to get to where we are - but we are capable. A comprehensive study of 2,000 scientific papers recently found that 6 of the 9 boundaries have been broken and are in dangerous territories. Ozone is one of the healthy ones, so maybe we can turn the other 6 around. CO2 is one of the 9 boundaries and has a direct impact on the others.

We truly believe that businesses can take urgent climate action - no matter what size, industry or stage they’re at in the journey.

We're not able to make our 5% donation this year

Since day one, it’s been important that we use Harvey as a tool for funnelling essential funds towards initiatives that help find solutions. In our first 3 years of business, we have donated a total of $89,000 to the impactful work of Greening Australia and Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE)

We’re disappointed to share that we have not been able to make our annual 5% revenue donation this year due to our financial position. This was a difficult conclusion to come to. We’re sorry to let anyone down and hope to make this year’s donation in future years.

Environmental strategy template

We worked with Portable - with our The Business Pickle hat on - to develop their environmental strategy as a business. We’ve shared the process, frameworks, measurements and initiatives in this case study.