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Satellite to develop branding on LCE Sustainable Procurement brief

LONDON - 25 January 2007 Satellite, the UK's leading integrated ethical agency are appointed as design consultants for the London Centre of Excellence Sustainable Procurement Project being led by the London Borough of Camden. Developing sustainable procurement is an important national policy priority. The 2005 UK Sustainable Development Strategy announced the UK's goal of becoming 'a leader ...

Jan. 26, 2007

By Greentech Show GmbH

Crowberry Consulting shortlisted for North West Business Environment Awards

Crowberry Consulting - an environment, ethics and corporate responsiblity management consultancy based in the North West of England has been shorlisted for the North West Business Environment Awards 2007 - category Sustainable Procurement. The awards will be annouced on 16th May in Manchester in association with the Mersey Basin Campaign and the North West Regional Development ...

Apr. 19, 2007

By Crowberry Consulting

Sustainable procurement for municipalities offers huge opportunities

Every year, Canada's fifteen largest municipalities spend over 10 billion dollars annually on goods, services, and capital projects. The adoption of sustainable procurement practices by these municipalities presents a huge opportunity for local governments to strengthen ties with small and medium sized enterprises. To local businesses which specialize in sustainable goods and services, the 2nd ...

Jul. 4, 2012

By GLOBE SERIES

Municipal sustainable procurement in Canada: trends best practices

Sustainable purchasing and supply chains are on municipal agendas across Canada. Increasingly, decision-makers are recognizing that sustainable procurement practices add value to their carbon neutral programs, zero waste goals, economic development opportunities, risk management, leadership, efficiency and innovation while positively engaging their staff and the communities they ...

Mar. 20, 2012

By GLOBE SERIES

Turning point in municipal sustainable purchasing in Canada

Sustainable purchasing is gaining ground in the Canadian municipal sector as municipalities pursue their contributions to existing 'green' objectives, such as zero waste and climate neutrality, and new corporate concerns such as risk management and operational efficiency. As a relatively new practice within the Canadian public sector, many municipalities are reaching out to their peers to share ...

Apr. 18, 2013

By GLOBE SERIES

Crowberry Consulting Ltd named North West Business Environment Award Winner 2008

Sustainable Events Ltd a sister company to Crowberry Consulting Ltd was recently recognised at the North West Business and Environment Awards in the category of sustainable procurement. The online tool for event planners to plan and design events with sustainability factors built in was a runner up at the awards. The online tool is the only UK tool that can help event managers to build events ...

Jul. 1, 2008

By Crowberry Consulting

National audit office: Government must practise sustainable procurement

Government departments need to ensure that their procurement decisions minimise waste levels and increase recycling rates, according to a new report. The National Audit Office report entitled Addressing the environmental impacts of Government procurement found that a number of Government departments are not yet on course to be practising sustainable procurement across their business by the end ...

Apr. 29, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Updated Crowberry Consulting Ltd news

NEW OFFICE FOR Crowberry Consulting Ltd : Please note we have recently recolated and our new office address is Chorley Business and Technology Centre, East Terrace, Euxton Lane, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 6TE and our new number is +44 1257 231171. Crowberry Consulting to exhibit at the Envirolink NorthWest Research and Development Conference, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester UK on Tuesday 13th ...

Sep. 7, 2009

By Crowberry Consulting

Crowberry Wins runner up prize for sustainable procurement at the North West Business Environment Awards UK

Crowberry Consulting was a runner up in the Sustainable Procurement category at the recent North West Business Environment Awards, held at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, UK. Crowberry takes active steps to ensure the sustainability of its own business process, purchasing green energy to run its office, 100% recycled paper, re-using materials such as toner cartridges, has its own Environment ...

Jun. 28, 2007

By Crowberry Consulting

Responsible sourcing in the mining and metals industry

The International Council on Mining and Minerals (ICMM) has published its first ever comprehensive guide on responsible sourcing for the mining and metals industry. ICMM CEO Tom Butler said, “as society increasingly seeks to purchase goods that have been produced in socially and environmentally responsible ways, we felt it was important to develop guidance on what good practice looks like ...

Dec. 3, 2015

By International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)

BSR, Hilton Worldwide Launch Center to Help Business Make Sustainable Purchasing Decisions

BSR and Hilton Worldwide launched the Center for Sustainable Procurement today to help global business procurement managers integrate sustainability into their purchasing decisions—providing a unique set of research and information that will help make sense of the increasingly available product sustainability data. “Thanks to the important ...

May 15, 2012

By Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)

New partnership to offset UN carbon emissions and support sustainable development

A wind farm in India and a waste management project in Colombia are set to benefit from a new to offset the carbon emissions of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). Ever since the UN Secretary-General first announced a directive for UN agencies to move toward climate neutrality in 2007, the organization has been measuring its ...

Apr. 5, 2013

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

MEDIA ADVISORY: Press Conference Held on the Occasion of World Environment Day 2015

4 June 2015, 17:30 (CET) Venue: Media Centre, inside the Expo Center, west end of the Decumano, Expo Milano SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION PATH SPOTLIGHTED AS MEANS TO ACHIEVE LONG TERM ECONOMIC GAINS AND SAVE NATURAL RESOURCES - NEW UN STUDY Who Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Gian Luca Galletti, Minister of Environment, Italy Yaya Touré, Professional ...

Jun. 1, 2015

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Recovinyl recyclers to exhibit at BPF PVC event in Manchester, UK

Recovinyl-accredited PVC recyclers will be exhibiting for the first time at a British Plastics Federation one-day seminar on October 2nd in support of the UK forum’s focus on sustainability within the UK PVC industry. The four recycling companies - PVC Recycling Ltd, vinyl flooring manufacturer Polyflor, VEKA Recycling, part of the VEKA UK Group and plastics recycler UKBF will be ...

Sep. 4, 2012

By Axion Group

WRI and WBCSD update guide to sustainable procurement of wood and paper-based products

Today, WRI and the WBCSD release an update to the guide “Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-Based Products.” The guide is meant to help company managers—who are charged with making large purchases of wood and paper products but may not have the time or the knowledge to navigate all the different resources— as they develop and implement their procurement policies. ...

Jul. 22, 2011

By World Resources Institute WRI

Additional information on New York `chemical avoidance list`

In our memorandum dated January 6, 2010, we alerted you to a recent activity in New York in connection with the development of a 'chemical avoidance list.' The list, which reportedly consists of approximately 85 chemicals, would include chemicals that New York government agencies should avoid buying. By way of background, last May the Advisory Council of the New York Interagency Committee on ...

Jan. 13, 2010

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Gold status for Endress+Hauser

Endress+Hauser has received a Gold Recognition Level certificate in the EcoVadis audit, improving on the previous year’s result with 66 points. The result illustrates the high importance Endress+Hauser places on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the structured, foresighted approach it takes. “As a family business, the concept of sustainability is anchored firmly in ...

Sep. 14, 2017

By Endress+Hauser AG

Sustainability in the Global Construction Industry 2012-2013: A Global CEO Survey

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Sustainability in the Global Construction Industry 2012–2013: A Global CEO Survey http://www.reportlinker.com/p01023321/Sustainability-in-the-Global-Construction-Industry-2012–2013-A-Global-CEO-Survey.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Construction_and_Building ...

Nov. 6, 2012

By ReportLinker

City of Zurich share knowledge in recycling concrete with European cities

ICLEI member Zurich’s (Switzerland) Environmental Protection and Health Agency recently hosted a three-day visit for European practitioners to showcase their experience in reusing and recycling construction and demolition waste (CDW). Experts from The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital (Italy) and the Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority, HSY (Finland) travelled to Zurich to ...

Feb. 1, 2019

By ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Endress+Hauser Achieves Gold Status Again

Sustainable business processes awarded 68 points in the EcoVadis rating Endress+Hauser has received the Gold Recognition Level certificate in the EcoVadis audit, achieving a score of 68 points. The company is therefore among the top five percent of all suppliers evaluated by EcoVadis in the corresponding comparison group. Endress+Hauser continued to achieve an above-average rating in all ...

Jan. 23, 2019

By Endress+Hauser AG