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Biomass and Integration in Future Energy Systems and the Bioeconomy

Biomass was the primary source of materials and energy until the industrial revolution set off a series of major changes around two hundred years ago. In the industrialized world fossil fuels became the primary source for energy in the forms of electricity and heat and provided almost all fuels for transport. However, biomass continued to maintain an important role in the economies in both ...

May 17, 2017

By ETA Florence - Renewable Energies

Company culture and EHS / sustainability performance

Recognizing and managing your company’s culture is critical to understanding and managing EHS and sustainability performance. Performance is driven by employee behaviors, and employee behaviors are driven by the intangible aspects of your company’s culture that are not written down in policies, programs and procedures. All behavior is rewarded, whether it is desired or unwanted ...

Nov. 6, 2014

By Antea Group - USA

Software monitoring on sustainability performance on the rise

New survey reveals companies using software to monitor sustainability performance rose by 50% in the last four years. New survey reveals companies using software to monitor sustainability performance rose by 50% in the last four years.The proportion of companies that use software to monitor their sustainability performance increased by 50% between 2006 and 2010, according to a new ...

Mar. 10, 2011

By Vital Efficienci Ltd.

Airports and Sustainability: Achieving High Performance Sustainable Airports

Airports are the nodes and pulses of the modern day world or let’s say the highly connected ‘Global Village’. They have enabled the governments and corporate in galvanizing the whole logistic and supply chain networks, thereby building both local as well as national economy. However the flip side is that airports are guzzling resources worth billions of dollars each year, and ...

Apr. 1, 2016

By Conserve Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Symantec - How an IT Company improves its Sustainability Performance

Sector: Information Technology (IT) Region: US Organisation: Symantec was founded in 1982 and the company has become one of the world’s largest software companies with more than 20,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Symantec provides security, storage and systems management solutions to individual consumers, small businesses and the largest global organisations, ...

Apr. 12, 2012

By Article 13

The future of corporate reporting is sustainable business performance management

The future of corporate reporting is Sustainable Business Performance Management. Today, this seems to be true more than ever. Non-financial disclosure is a marketplace expectation for any company reporting information to stakeholders. It is more crucial than ever to give stakeholder a throughout picture of your organisations performance. Integrating non-financials to Corporate Performance ...

May 8, 2009

By Tofuture Oy

Integrating sustainability performance into investment strategies and decision-making

The number of investors who are integrating sustainability performance into their investment strategies and decision-making is on the rise. The number of signatories to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, an international network of investors working together to put the six Principles for Responsible Investment into practice, rose from 100 in April 2006 to 1,380 in ...

Aug. 19, 2015

By GLOBE Foundation

Culture – the key to sustainable process safety performance

What is culture? Some companies wonder why they keep experiencing the same process safety problems. Others wonder why they have plateaued in process safety performance. Culture is KEY. It is the individual and organizational 'DNA' that represents our tendency to want to do (1) the right thing (2) in the right way (3) at the right time, (4) ALL the time – even when no one is looking.The safety ...

Sep. 22, 2008

By ABS Consulting

Sustainability Related Indices - Measuring the Supplier’s Performance

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Feb. 12, 2013

By SGS

Sustainable manufacturing practices, sustaining lean improvements and sustainable performance in Malaysian automotive industry

This exploratory study seeks to determine the interrelationship between sustainable manufacturing practices (SMP), sustaining lean improvements (SLI) and sustainable performance (SP) in Malaysian automotive industry. The specific goals are: 1) to identify the SMP, SLI and SP measures for Malaysian automotive industry; 2) to investigate the impact of SMP and SLI on SP for Malaysian automotive ...

Oct. 1, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Incorporating energy performance, sustainability of buildings into environmental due diligence

This article examines recent trends related to climate change and sustainability and their impacts on environmental due diligence. The authors say quantifying a building's energy and sustainability condition, performance, and potential will become commonplace and now is being incorporated into routine commercial real estate transactions. They believe commercial property sellers should consider ...

Jun. 10, 2009

By Bloomberg BNA

Does the business size matter on corporate sustainable performance? The Australian business case

While a growing majority of research studies have concentrated on triple bottom line public reporting in large organisations, the review of past research suggests there seems to be limited support and importance given to small and medium sized businesses. This paper attempts to examine whether business size matters when it comes to corporate sustainability. To achieve this, we have conducted an ...

Jun. 27, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Benchmarking inter-organisational technology cooperation: the link between infrastructure and sustained performance

Cooperative efforts among government, industry, and universities have gown in importance as strong contributors to the nation's technological and economic competitiveness in the global environment. Such efforts include cooperation among networks of government R&D/technology laboratories, industrial R&D laboratories, and universities. The resulting novel organisational formats created to ...

Feb. 10, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

View From The Top - How Corporate Boards can Engage on Sustainability Performance

Today’s corporations, faced with the extraordinary challenges of global climate change, water scarcity and workplace inequality, are at a crossroads. They can take proactive steps to adapt to pressing environmental and social issues – the two core categories of “sustainability” – or they can risk being left behind. Sustainability is a critical business issue that all ...

Oct. 1, 2015

By Ceres

The sustainability performance of the water and sanitation services in Santiago de Chile

The water and sanitation sector in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile (MRS) is mainly privately owned or operated. The sector prides itself on having a modern and effective regulatory framework. Nevertheless there are still sustainability deficits existing as far as governance structures and integrated water resource management are concerned. This paper analyzes the sustainability ...

Oct. 19, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Measuring sustainability of water supply: performance indicators and their application in a corporate responsibility report

For many water supply companies, the sustainable exploitation of water resources has always been an integral part of their business, voluntarily accepting tasks and responsibility which benefit society and the environment in general, e.g. in resource protection, environmental monitoring, and encouragement of sustainable farming practices. However, these voluntary activities are often not ...

Dec. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

Performative governance: dynamics of participatory systems for devising sustainable development projects

The implementation of sustainable development raises the issues of participatory mechanisms and territorial governance, which are the subject of much research. This article discusses the results of research carried out on the performative dynamics at work (understood as supervisory mechanisms aiming to generate support or to create incentives to act in a desired direction) involved in territorial ...

Jun. 18, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Leveraging Emerging Management System Standards to Create Improved EHS and Sustainability Performance

Management systems can strengthen business advantage by providing better data accuracy and transparency, and provide increased opportunities for cost avoidance and cost savings, while also creating opportunities for improving profit margin. Management Systems Are Becoming More common in business as companies seek reputable ways co demonstrate responsibility to the international community. ...

Aug. 1, 2012

By Waste Advantage Magazine

Do certified sustainable buildings perform better than similar conventional buildings?

The aim of this study is to assess the performance of sustainable buildings. Its objective is to compare certified green buildings with similar in location, size, age and function conventional buildings by testing hypotheses that green buildings perform better than conventional ones. Objective data including building costs, energy and water consumption, material recycling, indoor pollution ...

Dec. 11, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Models for evaluating energy, environmental and sustainability performance of biofuels value chain

Sustainable production of biofuels requires lots of feedstocks, developing robust technologies and industrial ecology-oriented biorefineries under the overarching principles of sustainability. Majority of existing methods for impacts analysis of biofuels have not considered the triple dimensions of sustainability. A critical challenge for any chain of biofuel traders is to develop and implement ...

Aug. 25, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

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