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Greenstone Carbon Management to host workshop on reducing carbon footprint at leading food & beverage industry conference
Greenstone Carbon Management, the global specialist carbon solutions company, has announced today that it will host a workshop at the Sustainable Sourcing for the food and beverage industry conference in Holborn, London. The conference which will be held 21st - 23rd September 2010 will help participants explore the latest updates on integrating sustainable sourcing into businesses, and the latest ...
By Greenstone+
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Biodiversity loss and climate change: the need for an ecosystem approach
Biodiversity loss and climate change are now a part of our lives. Both are rooted in overexploitation of natural resources. Both require a coherent policy response. The Syracuse Charter and the Athens Conference underline the strong political commitment to take action. To ensure our society and economy have a healthy future, we need a way to assess our impacts on the natural world. The European ...
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New BSR report reviews tools for improving corporate environmental performance
As more companies seek to manage environmental performance based on how their activities affect broad ecological dynamics—as opposed to more narrow issues such as climate change or water—BSR's new report provides a snapshot of current tools and possible applications companies can use in their decision-making processes. 'There has been a game-changing paradigm shift in environmental thinking, ...
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Government announces new rules on carbon and energy reporting
Large businesses across the UK will be required to publicly report energy use, carbon emissions and energy efficiency actions under the new Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) regulations, which come into force in April 2019. This replaces the unpopular and overly complex CRC Energy Efficiency scheme, which will be scrapped at the same time that SECR is introduced. Are you affected? ...
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Helping Industry Reduce Carbon Emissions.
Climate change and the need to decrease greenhouse gases has become an important global, political and social issue. Many governments are developing new legislation regarding carbon trading and carbon permits. Regulation alone will not solve the issue of greenhouse gas emissions. An effective response to the climate change challenge requires action by everyone - governments, businesses and the ...
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3D forest reconstruction to improve environmental monitoring
Knowledge of forests is essential to our understanding and mitigation of climate change. Covering about 30% of global land area, forests play a significant role in the delivery of ecosystem services including climate regulation, carbon storage, biodiversity, prevention of soil erosion and flood mitigation. Forest monitoring programmes, which can assess the impact of natural and anthropogenic ...
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Urban river renewal guidelines to help clean Cape Town’s waterways
The South African Water Research Commission (WRC) launched new guidelines for urban river renewal at the annual Peninsula Paddle community event on Sunday 8 June 2014 in Cape Town. Aurecon was appointed to determine procedures for enforced rehabilitation activities on urban river reaches in Cape Town. The project was led by Aurecon Associate Water Scientist Sam Braid who used it a basis for her ...
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SGS Introduces Product Carbon Footprint Marks on the Indian Market
As a result of rising consumer awareness, reducing the carbon footprint has become a key focus area for many organizations. A carbon footprint helps to assess the impact people and businesses have on the environment. It measures the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by different activities. By knowing the carbon footprint of products and the organization, it is easier to develop a ...
By SGS
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OriginOil Receives Firm Order for Its Algae Appliance in Urban Test Program at Paris La Défense Complex
OriginOil, Inc. (OTC/BB: OOIL), developer of a breakthrough technology to convert algae into renewable crude oil, today received a firm order from its French joint venture partner Ennesys to supply OriginOil’s Algae Appliance™ harvester and other components for a test of urban algae production. Located in the iconic La Défense complex ...
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Life Cycle Assessments Can Reduce Costs and Improve Brand Identity: Deloitte
Organizations can create value by conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) to analyze a number of sustainability metrics to better inform business decisions and activities, says a new Deloitte report. LCA is designed to measure and quantify the end-to-end environmental and economic impacts of a product, process or service in alignment with specific sustainability goals. "Enhancing the Value of ...
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First-of-its-Kind Report Ranks U.S. Insurance Companies on Climate Change Responses
Amid growing evidence that climate change is having wide-ranging global impacts that will worsen in the years ahead, a new report from Ceres ranks the nation's 330 largest insurance companies on what they are saying and doing to respond to escalating climate risks. The report found strong leadership among fewer than a dozen companies but generally poor responses among the vast majority. The ...
By Ceres
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Leading businesses push boundaries of corporate responsibility into the supply chain
Seven pathfinder companies awarded Carbon Trust Standard for Supply Chain: ABP Food Group Aviva Central England Co-operative Deloitte UK Nationwide PwC UK Willmott Dixon Seven large businesses have demonstrated their sustainability leadership by becoming the first organisations to be awarded the new Carbon Trust Standard for Supply Chain, launched today at an event at the British ...
By Carbon Trust
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Trinity Mirror cuts carbon footprint to be first to retain carbon trust standard
Trinity Mirror has set the standard for others to follow by becoming the first company in the UK to achieve recertification with the Carbon Trust Standard – the UK’s premier certification for companies that are reducing their carbon emissions. Since 2005 Trinity Mirror has consistently reduced carbon emissions across its operations, proving genuine commitment to reducing its ...
By Carbon Trust
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First Net Zero Mass Spectrometer Launched to Support Greener Future
The launch of the world's first net zero mass spectrometer (MS) will make it easier than ever for scientists working across geoscience, food and beverage, environmental science and forensics to practice science sustainably. The Thermo Scientific Delta Q Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS) is a next generation gas IRMS designed to enable detailed analysis with greater precision and accuracy. ...
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Business innovation to tackle climate change
Article 13, the leading CSR and sustainability consultancy, has released a free feature on combating climate change through business innovation. The feature profiles five best practice examples of climate change action from five quite different sectors. It looks at environmental sustainability in residential and commercial developments, the leaders in the financial sector, leaders in influencing ...
By Article 13
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EPA encourages the use of chemicals with a smaller environmental impact
EPA is issuing a final rule that encourages the use of solvents that don’t significantly contribute to ground-level ozone. Two chemicals used in solvents, propylene carbonate and dimethyl carbonate, no longer need to be regulated as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) under the Clean Air Act. Extensive scientific reviews indicate these chemicals have little or no effect on forming smog or ...
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New Clean Air Techniques for Carbon Fiber Processes
As a material, carbon fiber has fundamentally changed many of the products we use every day, making them lighter, stronger and more durable. The manufacturing process is typically unique to each supplier and it can be as complex as the fiber molecules themselves. Equally as challenging are the air pollution control systems used on the production equipment. This year, two institutions on opposite ...
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Investors achieve major company commitments on climate change
Investors engaging with US companies on the financial risks and opportunities from climate change achieved breakthrough results during the 2008 proxy season. A record 57 climate-related shareholder resolutions were filed with U.S. companies, of which nearly half were withdrawn after the companies agreed to positive climate-related commitments. Remaining resolutions that went to a vote received ...
By Ceres
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Scientific advice improved outcome of UN climate talks
UN climate change policy negotiators need more access to expert advice on new technologies such as carbon storage and geoengineering, according to an expert whose study found that providing scientific information to negotiators before debates resulted in more productive discussions. The paper, published in Energy Procedia last month (5 August), says that the annual Conferences of the Parties ...
By SciDev.Net
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Indirect carbon emissions and why they matter
Viewpoint from Hugh Jones, Managing Director of Carbon Trust Advisory Services According to our recent research, a combination of regulation and consumer demand means that 93% of multinational companies are now taking steps to address carbon emissions directly related to their business. More companies are recognising that lowering their carbon emissions leads to reputational and efficiency ...
By Carbon Trust
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