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 […]
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 […]
5 Ways To Use LCA To Make Your Business More Sustainable
Turning environmental data into sustainable action. You can’t make sustainable improvements in your business, without knowing where you stand in the first place. A *Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tells you exactly that. With an LCA, you measure the environmental footprint of a product or your complete product portfolio. The results include impact types such as; […]
5 Steps to Get Suppliers On Board With Sustainability
It has become clear that the role of supply chains on companies’ environmental impact is often very high. Up to a point, where 90% of your total environmental footprint can occur in said supply chains. This impact percentage from your supply chain might seem impressive – but it also opens up many opportunities for substantial […]
Measuring Carbon Footprints: Scope 2 Emissions Explained
Almost 40% of our global greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to energy generation. And half of that energy is used by industrial or commercial entities. It’s time for companies to take responsibility, become transparent on their carbon footprint, and start reducing them. Read everything about scope 2 emissions and how to measure them […]
Scope 1 Emissions Explained: Measuring Carbon Footprint
Let’s take a step back. Yes. Everyone would love to reduce their company’s or products’ carbon footprint. But before you do that you need a clear picture of your carbon emissions. And connect them to data that you can actually measure and monitor. So how can you map out your carbon emissions? The GHG provides […]
The EU’s Green Deal & Taxonomy Are a Big Deal: Prepare for LCA’s
The European Green Deal The European Green Deal was presented by the end of 2019, and slowly rolled out and introduced throughout the EU in 2020. The European Green Deal can be described as the following: “The European Green Deal provides a roadmap with actions to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to […]
