Sustainability Dashboard
Introducing the Regional Sustainability Dashboard
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Business Sustainability Roundtable
The Business Sustainability Roundtable (BSR) is a council of regional governments, businesses, and stakeholders with a shared purpose: bring together leaders from government, business, and academia to collaborate on key sustainability and economic development challenges facing the region.
North Carolina’s rapid growth presents both opportunity and responsibility. The BSR works to ensure growth across the Raleigh-Durham region is supported by resilient infrastructure, reliable resource access, and systems that protect community wellbeing and long-term competitiveness.
By convening leaders from business, government, and the broader community, BSR turns sustainability challenges into strategic advantages. Facilitated by Wake County Economic Development and the Greater Raleigh Chamber, the Roundtable drives measurable outcomes in sustainability and business performance while fostering peer collaboration, leadership, and continuous improvement.
Powering Sustainable Growth
Current Priority Areas
The Business Sustainability Roundtable has identified three priority areas—Waste Economy, Energy, and Wastewater Management—where sustainability and economic risk most directly intersect for North Carolina’s growth. These focus areas reflect pressing challenges around resource constraints, infrastructure capacity, and market pressures that impact business continuity, community wellbeing, and regional competitiveness. Through action-oriented working groups, BSR is addressing near-term risks while strengthening the foundation for long-term, sustainable economic success.
As population and economic activity grow, so does pressure on landfills and material supply chains, increasing costs, regulatory risk, and lost economic value. A linear “use and dispose” model leaves businesses and communities vulnerable to material scarcity and rising disposal costs. By advancing a circular waste economy, the BSR aims to keep materials in productive use, strengthen regional recycling markets, reduce landfill dependence, and support job creation—improving both environmental outcomes and economic resilience.
Rising demand from population growth, data centers, and manufacturing is making energy reliability and affordability central to regional competitiveness. Without coordinated planning, energy constraints can limit business expansion and investment. The BSR’s energy focus advances clean, efficient, and resilient solutions that help control operating costs, reduce exposure to future price volatility, and position North Carolina as an attractive location for growth in future-oriented industries.
Growth is placing increasing strain on wastewater systems, creating capacity, cost, and compliance risks for both communities and businesses. Aging infrastructure and rising treatment demands can constrain development and threaten water quality. The BSR’s focus on wastewater management advances modern, resilient systems and partnerships that protect water resources, support continued economic growth and reduce long-term infrastructure and regulatory risk.
Regional Sustainability Dashboard
Strong regional growth fuels economic opportunity, while also increasing demand on energy, water, and waste systems. This interactive, public-facing platform brings together searchable data on key resource trends. Our goal is to help align leadership, inform coordinated action, and support decisions that strengthen the region’s long-term resilience and competitiveness.
The dashboard is built using publicly available federal, state, and local data, and covers topics like greenhouse gas emissions, energy generation, waste, water, and economic growth. We are especially grateful to SAS for their creative inspiration and technical support in bringing this tool to life.
This is a first-generation release, and a work in progress. We invite you to explore the information and functionality within the dashboard and share your feedback as we continue to refine and expand it. Email the team with your thoughts at bsr@raleighchamber.org with any thoughts or recommendations you would like to share.
BSR Resources
Business Sustainability Roundtable Introduction
Apr 22, 2026
Current Leadership Team
