New directory offers first dynamic platform for finding and comparing Environmental Accounting Tools Aether (www.aether-uk.com) and ENDS (www.ends.co.uk) announce the first global directory and marketplace for environmental accounting tools: www.environmenttools.co.uk. This is an important initiative in a growing area. Organisations increasingly rely on specialist tools to manage and report ...
Untitled Document Germany was the world's leading exporter of environmental protection equipment in 2003 and 2004, shipping around €31bn worth of the goods in each of those years, the country's environment ministry said on Thursday. According to a new study, environmental protection equipment accounted for 5.1% of all industrial goods produced in Germany in 2004. The study also ...
Effective environmental policy should be based on robust information on trends. The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published two reports today which demonstrate how indicators and environmental accounting support policy and decision making. The 7th Environmental Action Programme sets out European Union environmental policy objectives for coming years. Implementing this programme will ...
Be part of a community at the cutting edge of environmental and sustainability performance 8 October, 2010 – Today sees the launch of the Elusor Environmental Accounting Tools Network – a dynamic online community created to educate, connect and equip people with a passion for improving the environmental and sustainability performance of organisations, large and small. This free and ...
The State Council held the teleconference on the First China Pollution Source Census on January 4. Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan was present and addressed the meeting, stressing that we should make in-depth implementation of the scientific outlook on development in principle of the gist of the 17th National Congress of the CPC, adhere to carrying out the census in a comprehensive, scientific and ...
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts Oracle today introduced Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Environmental Accounting and Reporting, based on the acquired assets of Ndevr in February. Organizations globally are faced with a complex set of emissions reporting requirements. Driven by country-specific regulatory mandates as well as stakeholder ...
Highly regulated companies can no longer focus solely on complying with environmental regulations. Investors, organizational leadership and the public expect maximum asset performance along with a reduced environmental impact. To help companies meet these expectations, Sphera, a leading global provider of Integrated Risk and Sustainability Management software, data and consulting services, has ...
ENDS and environmental consultancy Aether together announce the first global directory and marketplace for environmental accounting tools: Environment Tools. This is an important initiative in a growing area. Organisations increasingly rely on specialist tools to manage and report environmental data. The range and complexity of tools in the market is ballooning, and until now there has been no ...
The 85th Lessons Learned Quarterly Report features Administration changes in environmental policy to better account for climate change and improve watershed- and landscape-scale ...
EPA’s criminal enforcement program was established in 1983 and is integral to the agency’s overall work. CID’s mission is to investigate allegations of the most egregious violations of federal environmental statutes, and to assist the U.S. Department of Justice in the prosecution of individuals and corporations charged with criminal offenses. An Area Office, under the ...
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts North County Transit District (NCTD), the agency responsible for public transportation in North San Diego County, CA, selected Oracle to support its sustainability reporting goals. A vital part of San Diego's regional transportation network, NCTD serves more than 12 million passengers annually through a family of transit services, including bus system, ...
The International Fund for Animal Welfare’s UK office has appointed Satellite to handle its integrated communications account. The environmentally focussed agency won the account after a five-way pitch. IFAW selected Satellite for their breadth of vision and innovative ‘Web 2.0’ based campaign concept. Rosa Argent, IFAW UK Communications Manager, commented “IFAW is delighted to be working with ...
IHS (NYSE: IHS), the leading source of information and analytics, today announced that Statoil, a top global energy industry company headquartered in Norway, has selected enterprise software from the IHS Environmental Performance Solution™ as the information management framework for its environmental accounting program. “IHS is proud to help Statoil leverage a broad spectrum of ...
"These agreements serve President Obama's top priority of creating jobs across the U.S. and contain an equal commitment to enforcing environmental standards. The health and environmental commitments will continue to foster opportunities for America's leading environmental technology industry, which exports innovative pollution control technology to countries around the world. These trade ...
Not surprisingly, it is the executives in the clean-tech sector who see the feasibility of a complete shift to renewables by 2050. “I firmly believe it is possible, and I don’t think I am a lunatic-fringe kind of person,” said John Simmons, chief executive officer of Victoria, B.C.-based solar lighting firm Carmanah Technologies Corp. “I can’t imagine why other ...
Based on its recent analysis of the energy-efficient heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) services solutions market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Trane with the 2010 North American Award for Green Excellence in Service Innovation. A business of Ingersoll Rand and a leading provider of indoor comfort systems and services around energy-efficient HVAC systems, building controls, HVAC ...
The private sector has a responsibility to protect the natural environment is a key finding of a new paper called Natural Capital - what do accountants think?( http://www.accaglobal.com/en/research-insights/environmental-accountability/natural-capital-summary.html ) which has been published by ACCA( http://www.accaglobal.com ) (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). Accountants in ...
IETA is deeply disappointed that climate negotiators failed to fulfil their mandate to deliver rules for market cooperation as part of the Paris Agreement "rule book” at COP 24 in Katowice today. In a year when the scientific community urged governments to scale up action to address climate change towards achieving a 1.5 degree Celsius goal, negotiators delayed decisions on rules that ...
1) What is GDP? GDP is the gross domestic product of a country. It measures the total final market value of all goods and services produced within a country during a given period. GDP is the most frequently used indicator of market activity and is most often measured on an annual or quarterly basis to gauge the growth of a country's economic activity between one period and another. GDP is also ...
There are several trends that I have been following that I feel will contribute significantly to the success of Mission Markets and the growth of the Impact Investing movement. One trend that will help drive our success is the growing awareness that local businesses, products, and services are inherently more socially and environmentally responsible as well as impactful to the community in ...