sustainability performance Articles
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Measuring sustainability performance in industrial parks: a case study of the Kwinana industrial area
Industrial parks/areas are increasingly required to substantiate their environmental and sustainability performance with increasing pressures from both government and the community. In order to address these pressures the Kwinana industrial area in Western Australia has started the development of a sustainability roadmap centred on a set of sustainability indicators developed through proactive ...
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Assessing sustainability performance of built projects: a building process approach
Existing environmental performance assessment approaches focus on the overall performance to reflect sustainability of built projects. However, the impacts caused by construction activities on the environment occur throughout a project's life cycle which may be different at different stages. Similarly, the economic benefits and social impacts from implementing a construction project may also be ...
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Kesko - Industry leader in sustainability reporting - case study
Kesko is a highly valued listed trading sector company. It has about 2,000 stores engaged in chain operations in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Belarus. Kesko implemented Tofuture’s Corporate Sustainability Management (CSM) system to improve the efficiency and consistency of sustainability data collection and reporting. The CSM system gave Kesko a ...
By Tofuture Oy
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How to cut across the catch-all? A philosophical-cultural framework for assessing sustainability
The manner in which the sustainable performance of a complex system can be assessed continues to be the focus of many discussions. This paper builds on efforts to use multimodal system analysis for describing sustainable functioning. Initial research was conducted in the contexts of system sciences and urban planning, but the resulting method is estimated to have a wider potential for ...
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Sustainable investment analysis with the sustainable value approach ? a plea and a methodology to overcome the instrumental bias in socially responsible investment research
The increased demand for sustainable investments has resulted in an increased interest in sustainable investment analysis. Existing sustainable investment analysis assesses environmental and social performance in isolation and/or subordinates environmental and social performance under economic performance. Neither is in-line with the demands of sustainable development. This article shows how the ...
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Case Study - Kesko
KESKO – Industry Leader in Sustainability Reporting Kesko is the most versatile provider of trading sector services in the Baltic Sea area and has operations on in the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries and Russia. Kesko implemented Tofuture’s Corporate Sustainability Management (CSM) system to improve the efficiency and consistency of sustainability data collection and reporting. ...
By Tofuture Oy
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Semivariance as real project portfolio optimisation criteria – an oil and gas industry application
Quality in the capital allocation process is of utmost relevance in securing and sustaining economic performance and corporate goals. The correct characterisation of uncertainties across the opportunity set is critical in achieving optimal capital allocation decisions. Real projects are characterised by distributional forms that are of a very different nature to those found in securities markets, ...
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Corporate sustainability management: a methodology and a case study in the mining and minerals sector
This paper proposes an integrated approach to managing corporate sustainability along whole supply chains. The application of the approach is illustrated by a real case study of a company in the mining and minerals sector. The case study describes the main steps of the approach, including identification of sustainability issues, measurement and evaluation of sustainability performance, and ...
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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 ...
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Case study - Metso
METSO – Efficient group-wide sustainability management in a global corporation Metso Corporation is a global supplier of technology and services for process industries. In Metso, group-wide management of sustainability performance is considered an integral part of good business management. Metso has been using Tofuture’s Corporate Sustainability Management (CSM) system for all ...
By Tofuture Oy
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Relationship between organisational value addition and environmental sustainability performance in an Indian pulp and paper manufacturing unit and its supply chain: a longitudinal case study
Organisations that improve 'value addition' by implementing several initiatives do not verify impact of these initiatives have on environment. The modern sustainability era, demands elimination of environmental impacts, i.e., a positive correlation is expected between value addition and environmental performance on long term basis. Many studies on Corporate Sustainability Management, based on the ...
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Streamlining the use of legislated reporting to move to ‘life of project’ sustainability reporting
The minerals industry has made extensive efforts in sustainable development, and reporting of sustainability performance has been increasing. This paper examines the current role of legislated reporting, and the ways in which it can help streamline sustainability reporting, saving time and money. Two sets of sustainability metrics – the global reporting initiative (GRI) and ...
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Huhtamäki - improving business performance through non-financial key performance indicators - case study
Huhtamäki Oyj is a global consumer and specialty packaging company aiming to realize business benefits from sustainability performance. In Huhtamäki, internal performance benchmarking and bringing non-financial indicators as an integrated part of everyday management is a continuous development process. Also, the ever increasing need for more transparent and faster reporting to investors ...
By Tofuture Oy
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Sparse principal component analysis based sustainability assessment of EOL ICT service infrastructures
Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM) is becoming a more effective approach to solve sustainable (environmental, social and economic) problems. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) positively made business more efficient and less polluting, while negatively contributes to environmental impacts by releasing of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) and producing e-wastes. This paper will develop a ...
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Environmental assessment of the cement and concrete life cycle in Greece
The basic targets of the modern cement and concrete production industry are the reduction of energy costs and minimisation of environmental effects. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool for the evaluation of the environmental performance of a production system. The objective of this work is to provide a very clear analysis and quantification of all the parameters of the process that make ...
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Sustainability assessment of tertiary wastewater treatment technologies: a multi-criteria analysis
The multi-criteria analysis gives the opportunity to researchers, designers and decision-makers to examine decision options in a multi-dimensional fashion. On this basis, four tertiary wastewater treatment (WWT) technologies were assessed regarding their sustainability performance in producing recycled wastewater, considering a ‘triple bottom line’ approach (i.e. economic, environmental, and ...
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Gender diversity and innovative performance
This paper aims to empirically assess the impact of gender diversity on innovative performance, specifically research and development (R&D) in companies, in exploring the business case for gender diversity. The study's originality lies in isolating the specific effect of gender diversity on innovative performance from the effects of other forms of diversity, particularly in terms of age, ...
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Decentralized peri-urban wastewater treatment technologies assessment integrating sustainability indicators
Selection of treatment technologies without considering the environmental, economic and social factors associated with each geographical context risks the occurrence of negative impacts that were not properly foreseen, working against the sustainable performance of the technology. The principal aim of this study was to evaluate 12 technologies for decentralized treatment of domestic wastewater ...
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Case Study - Huhtamäki
Huhtamäki - improving business performance through non-financial key performance indicators Huhtamäki Oyj is a global consumer and specialty packaging company aiming to realize business benefits from sustainability performance. In Huhtamäki, internal performance benchmarking and bringing non-financial indicators as an integrated part of everyday management is a continuous ...
By Tofuture Oy
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An integrated conceptual model to promote green policies
As members of society become more conscious of environmental issues and global warming, they will be asking more questions about the products they are purchasing. Companies will be expected to promote how green their manufacturing processes and supply chain are, their carbon footprint, and how they recycle. A number of companies have already shown that there is proof of the link between improved ...
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