13 Tips To Boost Environmental Awareness In Your Company
You want to make the world a better place, especially when you’re at work? That can often be a challenge – even more when your company isn’t focused on sustainability, and your colleagues don’t understand your passion for the environment. Short-term results beat long-term vision If you’re like us, you do of course understand why […]
How Theo Pouw is winning tenders and improving their MKI with Environmental Intelligence
The Theo Pouw Group supplies primary and secondary building materials to the soil, road, water and concrete construction industry – a competitive industry, with many environmental regulations. The Dutch construction sector has high environmental standards – public tenders are often decided based on the Environmental Cost Indicator (MKI). This is why suppliers have to produce high-value […]
Let’s Stop Debating Whether ‘Sustainability Pays Off’
The reality is we experience business executives still having doubts about it. The biggest challenge seems to be, how to substantiate the investments needed and how to calculate a simple RIO. But there are no shortcuts or quick wins here. What is needed is a longer term vision, strategy and persistance. Therefore we need to stop […]
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): How Is It Different From LCA?
Environmental Impact Assessments (short EIA, sometimes also EA) is the assessment of a project’s environmental impact. It is conducted ex-ante, so before the project is concluded. This sounds similar to a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – which is defined as: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an analysis of the impact one object has on the world around it. […]
Measuring and Managing Scope 3 Environmental Impact
Based on several case studies from our portfolio and external resources, we see that in various sectors, the scope 3 emissions account usually for more than 80% of the total value chain environmental impact. And although the impact may be indirect, the impact can be strongly influenced by a company’s actions. This includes e.g. product […]
How To Calculate And Compare Product Environmental Footprints With Mobius
What’s the environmental footprint of your product? If you have ever asked yourself this question, you are not alone. The demand for sustainable products is constantly rising. How do you measure a product’s environmental footprint? A product footprint is measured via the scientific method Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). An LCA calculates the impact a product […]
What To Know About Direct & Indirect Emissions: Scope 1, 2, and 3 Emissions
The concept of emission scopes was introduced by The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol). The goal: to define how a company controls the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions it is responsible for. Do we cause the GHG emissions ourselves, or are we causing them indirectly, through our supply chain? Even though the emission scopes are related […]
Environmental Cost Indicator: ECI Overview
The Environmental Cost Indicator (short ECI) is a single-score indicator expressed in Euro. It unites all relevant environmental impacts into a single score of environmental costs, representing the environmental shadow price of a product or project. Generally, most of the emissions of a product are not created at a production facility, but along the supply chain. This […]
How the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Can Help Businesses
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are a blueprint for the prosperity of our planet and the people on it. The agenda addresses 17 urging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to inequality, climate, peace, justice, prosperity, and environmental degradation. Every part of society – state, industry, academia, and civil society – has to collaborate to achieve these goals […]
