LEAP: Global Leaders in Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP)

The Global Leaders in Environmental Assessment and Performance ( LEAP) is a consortium of organizations working through research and collaboration to integrate their product & process with their supply chain strategy to achieve superior environmental performance.

The LEAP consortium focuses on the following focus areas:
(*) Management tools for assessing, controlling, and communicating your environmental impact.
(*) Knowledge of many of the world’s top experts in supply chains, sustainability, and corporate strategy.
(*) Prioritization product and supply chain strategies in order of their effectiveness at reducing long-term environmental impact.
(*) Tradeoffs between different measures of environmental performance.
(*) Opportunity for environmental improvement across your firm, your sector, or your supply chain.
(*) Evaluation on how emerging technologies—processes or materials—will impact the environmental performance of your company.
(*) Benchmarking performance and develop efficient and effective environmental standards
(*) Communication of environmental information to consumers, stakeholders, and supply chain partners

LEAP focuses on several critical success factors:
(*) Developing key management tools for assessing, controlling, and communicating your environmental impact.
(*) Integrating the knowledge of many of the world’s top experts in supply chains, sustainability, and corporate strategy.
(*) Ranking product and supply chain strategies in order of their effectiveness at reducing long-term environmental impacts.
(*) Exploring tradeoffs among different measures of environmental performance.
(*) Identifying the greatest opportunities for environmental improvement across your company, sector, and supply chain.
(*) Evaluating how emerging technologies -- processes or materials -- will impact the environmental performance of your firm.
(*) Indicating how you can benchmark performance and develop efficient and effective environmental standards.
(*) Illuminating how you can communicate environmental information to consumers, stakeholders, and supply chain partners.

As a member of the MIT Global LEAP consortium, you will be strategically positioned at the intersection of research in technology, business, and sustainability practices—and you will be among the first in the world to benefit from the insights and innovations emerging from that research. Working closely with MIT CTL, MIT MSL, and its research partners, you will

(*) Look beyond the walls of your company -- far upstream or downstream -- for strategic ways to reduce your impact.
(*) Evaluate trade-offs along multiple dimensions, including greenhouse gas emissions, resource consumption, and waste generation.
(*) Align your goals for improvement with sound economic performance so that your green efforts strengthen the organization.
(*) Comply with local regulations while elevating your business as an environmental leader in the marketplace.