How To Sell Sustainability: Collaborating With Marketing & Sales

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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

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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

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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 […]

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 […]

What’s an Environmental Profit & Loss Account? And How Do Companies Use It?

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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 […]

A CO₂ dashboard for customers – How Vermaat is making sustainable food even more accessible

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A sustainable future starts with yourself  They started out in 1978 as a delicacy shop, and are currently the leading specialist in tailor-made catering establishments. For years, hospitality company Vermaat has been offering successful hospitality concepts that take you into the endless world of taste.  With over 500 locations and large customers such as Rijksmuseum, […]

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 […]