How to Collect Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Data from Suppliers
We always talk about why you should engage your suppliers in your emission reduction efforts. But how do you actually retrieve the primary environmental data you need from them? Let’s dive into it. GHG Protocol reporting in the EU’s new CSRD The EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will affect more than 50.000 large […]
How To Sell Sustainability: Collaborating With Marketing & Sales
You measured your environmental footprint. Improved your products or services. But without customer buy-in- your sustainability efforts won’t achieve the financial returns vital to business success. To turn sustainable improvements into a business. You need to know exactly how your environmental benefits- benefit your customer. And to do so, sustainability, marketing & sales need to […]
CSRD & ESRS Guide: Prepare for Sustainable Reporting
1. What is the CSRD? The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, also CSRD, improves and replaces the current Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), which applies to approximately 12.000 organizations within the EU region. The NFRD explains the rules on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information for certain large companies- including sustainability reporting. The new CSRD applies to […]
The Danger Of Doing Sustainable Without Data: A Practical Example
It happens more often than you think. Companies claim to be sustainable- just because they perceive certain actions as sustainable. Often this goes together with actions that look good to external stakeholders. But- how do you know if what you are doing is actually making your company more sustainable? Making decisions based on…what? The principle […]
5 Tips To Involve Your Entire Company In Sustainable Change
Your company’s baseline environmental measurements are done. You created your impact reduction measures. Now, how and what do you tell your employees? Organizations often struggle with effectively communicating the urgency and underlying motives behind their sustainable developments to employees. One of the factors that decrease the successful implementation of sustainability- is that top management often […]
How Dura Vermeer uses Ecochain Helix to measure & improve the footprint of 500+ products
‘Connecting in action, and moving forward sustainably’ A family-owned company at the beating heart of Dutch housing, utility construction, and infrastructure. With €1.5 billion in sales and over 2,800 employees, *Dura Vermeer is in the top ten companies of the Dutch construction industry. And with large private and public clients like Rijkswaterstaat, ProRail, provinces, and […]
Carbon Tunnel Vision: Are You Excluding Crucial Environmental Data?
Carbon footprints often make up the largest impact hotspot in a company’s operations. And greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are THE term that is linked to the climate crisis. But, our ecosystems are made up of many different factors that all support each other as a cohesive whole. And- the same goes for the impact your […]
IPCC’s: Ambitious Immediate Climate Action Is Needed. What Can Business Leaders Do?
Although the message of the IPCC released at the beginning of August wasn’t a surprise compared to that of 2013- its contents are still very unsettling. Our natural world is heating up at an unnatural speed. And as we can currently already see- this process has many different consequences. Consequences that affect us all in […]
What’s an Environmental Profit & Loss Account? And How Do Companies Use It?
Environmental Profit & Loss Accounting- in short EP&L, is a great method for measuring and quantifying the environmental impact of an organization’s activities. Sports brand Puma was the first company to create and publish an EP&L report on its environmental footprint back in 2011. Since then, the recognition and need for environmental transparency and accountability […]
How Activity-Based Footprinting Solves the Complexity of LCA’s
‘An LCA is a complex analysis’ Life Cycle Assessments* (LCA) are, by nature, extensive pieces of research. Only trained experts can create reliable assessments that go to the bottom of complex processes and value chains. At least, that’s the common perception. *An LCA is a scientific analysis of the impact one object or process has […]