The United Nations Environment Programme´s Division of Technology, Industry and Environment (UNEP DTIE) and the Sustainable Production and Consumption Department at the Wuppertal Institute in Germany have jointly developed the Efficient Entrepreneur Calendar for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This calendar guides businesses through a programme that simultaneously saves money, increases efficiency, and reduces environmental impacts. In combination with an additional booklet (The Efficient Entrepreneur Assistant), the Calendar provides assistance and guidance on how to measure and improve environmental performance and stakeholder relations in seven areas. On the basis of “You can’t manage what you can’t measure” it introduces performance measures that are easy to assess and evaluate. The calendar charts a "month-by-month" programme that ends with a simple Efficient Entrepreneur report.

 

First launched in 2000, the "Calendar" was translated and published in English, French, Spanish and recently in Turkish.

 

• Michael Kuhndt (project coordination)
• Volker Türk
• André Eckermann

• Wuppertal Institute
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• A range of local partners for translation and distribution

Link

See the project website at efficient-entrepreneur.net