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General Inquiries
Through extensive outreach and analysis, STEP anticipates sustainability to be a rising influence in purchasing decisions within supply chains and households. To future proof business, it is increasingly important for Saskatchewan exporters to showcase their capacity to lead in sustainable growth. As innovators in every industry, STEP members have new stories to tell. STEP’s aim is to provide the pertinent information and resources to members so they may develop their own sustainability strategy in alignment with their existing business strategy.
It’s time to tell your story!
Sustainability Promotion Program (SPP)
Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership’s Sustainability Promotion Program (SPP) is a temporary program designed to promote the innovative products, technologies and services of Saskatchewan exporters in domestic and international markets. SPP funding will provide travel assistance to lower the costs and risks of attendance and promotion at sustainability-focused trade shows. Activities or events must have a clearly stated focus or requirement for sustainability as part of the program and a commercial program.
SPP APPLICATION GUIDE** NOTE: To quickly and easily submit the fillable PDF forms digitally, open the above document in a desktop PDF application (Adobe Acrobat or Reader); once open, a purple banner will appear in the top of the document with a Submit Form button. Unfortunately, this feature is not available if you open the fillable PDF in your browser.
ESG Strategy Support Program
Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership’s ESG Strategy Support Program is a temporary funding program available to assist STEP members in developing ESG initiatives to support their export market development. This program may support the costs of engaging services of an ESG consultant to carry out initiatives such as:
- Undertaking an ESG baseline assessment
- Creating an ESG strategy or program
- ESG Program implementation and reporting
- Brand/Marketing development of the sustainability strategy as part of an export market development plan
Funding is 50% of consulting costs submitted up to a maximum reimbursement of $5000 per approved applicant.
ESG STRATEGY SUPPORT PROGRAM GUIDE** NOTE: To quickly and easily submit the fillable PDF forms digitally, open the above document in a desktop PDF application (Adobe Acrobat or Reader); once open, a purple banner will appear in the top of the document with a Submit Form button. Unfortunately, this feature is not available if you open the fillable PDF in your browser.
Sustainability Resources
All Industries
- What is ESG and what does it mean for your business? — BDC provides an outline of ESG as a set of standards used to evaluate a company’s environmental and social impact.
- Sustainable Saskatchewan — Saskatchewan’s sustainability achievements.
- Saskatchewan Environmental Quality Guidelines — a searchable database of chemical concentrations that can be used by industry, consultants, businesses, organizations, regulators and the public as provincial benchmarks or indicators of environmental quality.
Manufacturing
- Saskatchewan Lean Improvements in Manufacturing (SLIM) — funding assistance to agri-businesses for the adoption of best practices, new state-of-the-art technologies and processes stimulating significant improvements in productivity efficiency and greenhouse gas emission reductions.
Agri-Food & Agri-Value
- GreenPrints — a five-part bilingual webinar series aimed at increasing awareness and education on sustainable agriculture practices in Canada.
- Product Development Program — funding for prototype and product development services to food, beverage and other agri-processing value-added companies.
- Canada Brand — a national branding program, marketing toolkit, promotional opportunities and a community that shares the strategic vision of a unified international Canadian presence to increase the global appetite for Canadian products.
- Global Institute for Food Security, News — Statement in support of Canada’s first national agri-food sustainability index