Background
A sustainability strategy will provide World Taekwondo and its stakeholders with a framework to deliver tangible benefits across the three dimensions of sustainability - environmental, social and economic. These benefits include the following*:
- Identification and management of sustainability challenges and realisation of associated opportunities
- Enhancing the reputation of World Taekwondo and fostering greater trust among stakeholders
- Generating greater innovation and improving the quality of activities carried out by World Taekwondo, further increasing access to finance
- Improving World Taekwondo’s relationship with its stakeholders, opening up to new perspectives and contact with a diverse range of stakeholders
- Enhancing employee loyalty, involvement, participation and morale
- Impacting positively on World Taekwondo’s ability to recruit, motivate and retain its employees
- Activating the sport’s global fans to promote and protect the sport, the environment, and to assist the local communities that support World Taekwondo’s vision
- Achieving savings associated with increased productivity and resource efficiency, lower energy consumption, and decreased waste
- Ensuring fair competition, and the absence of corruption.
