Combatting global climate change requires urgency, scale, high ambition and necessitates overcoming the sometimes complex language and calculations required for sustainability improvement.

As a result, there is immense potential for enhancing sustainability, though this is sometimes challenging to align with daily management processes and leadership objectives. The Sustain 8 organisational engagement programme ensures this alignment. It is designed to motivate factory floor personnel, thereby offering valuable opportunities for low, and no-capital cost improvements. Developed by the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) - a division of the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering, Sustain 8 follows eight simple steps - introduced in this session.