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The business case for sustainable purchasing:

Why should any business take responsibility for managing, controlling, raising awareness about these issues?  

• Views of stakeholders - customers, investors, local community, staff/workforce  (all changing over time);
• Gaining a good reputation - securing a licence to operate; ensuring security;
• Compliance with national and international legal and other obligations (demands increasing over time);
• Reducing risk: securing supplies, avoiding future damage to reputation;
• Securing more sales; developing new business opportunities;
• Reducing costs.

For a comprehensive statement of the business case see “To Whose Profit –building a business case for sustainability” published Janauary 2002 by WWF. Available for download at http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/towhoseprofit.pdf