Is your company doing everything it can to be sustainable?
As part of Small Business Week, learn about trending sustainability tactics with real business examples that change the business more sustainable in their business practices, through the Better You Business Program by establishing a Sustainability Mandate for your business hosted by Professor Mark Terry.
In 2015, the United Nations launched a global plan known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a “universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity”. Every nation agreed to implement the 17 goals of this plan not only in its national policies but in the behaviour and practices of its people and businesses.
This Session will cover:
- An introduction to SDGs
- Trending sustainanilty tactics that can change to be more sustainable in your business practices,
- Success business cases streamlined sustainability practices and generated increased business,
- More on the COV’s Social and and Environmental Sustainability program and Better Your Business Program
During this virtual open-forum style Q&A, feel free to turn cameras on, ask questions in the chat box, and share more about your business.
This session is ideal for idea-stage, Pre-Launch businesses, & businesses looking to grow alike.
If you have any questions for us at VBEC email ed@vaughan.ca.
*Virtual meeting link will be sent to your inbox 1 day prior to the event.
Hosted by the VBEC every October, Small Business Week is a nationally recognized celebration of the contributions small businesses make to the economy. This year’s Small Business Week will focus on empowering businesses to become more inclusive, sustainable and resourceful through providing content on a variety of programs, practical tools and strategies to embrace diversity and inclusion and understanding cultural competence.
The presenting sponsor for Small Business Week 2024 is the Business Development Bank of Canada(BDC) and programming is being delivered together with local business support organizations.
Registrations are currently open to small businesses and entrepreneurs. For a full schedule of events, including descriptions, please visit vaughanbusiness.ca/SBW.