Timberland Investments: A risk analysis
By Klaus Biskup
Specialist knowledge is essential to maximizing timberland investment opportunities, and in particular, assessing the risks involved…
Over recent years timberland investments have gained...
Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
Business as Usual?
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, and Lisa Xiong
“We are running out of water.”(Famiglietti (NASA), 2015)1
The constantly evolving world we live in continues to pose...
The Development of Circular Economies in China
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse & Khaled Soufani
In this article, the authors discuss China’s implementation of Circular Economic development programs in order to address...
The Road to Sustainable Business Mobility
Interview with Carsten Kwirandt
In this day and age, sustainability must be on the agenda of every organisation – particularly when it comes to their...
The Age of Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development as an Analytical and Normative Concept
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Achieving sustainable development on our crowded, unequal, and degraded planet is the most important challenge facing our generation. In this excerpt...
Envisioning the Opportunities Presented by the Resource Revolution
By Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers
Conventional wisdom predicts stagnating economic growth, extreme resource depletion, accelerating commodity price inflation, and increasing pollution as consuming classes...
How Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Reduction is Transforming the DNA of Leadership Key Trends...
By Nikos Avlonas
2012 introduced several significant developments in sustainability, most notably around the issues of climate change, risk management, and supply chain ethics.
June’s Rio+20...
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products...
The E-Car Will Change Human Behaviour
By Stefan Krause and Boris Liedtke
In this article, the authors share why despite the attacks on new mobility technology and the fact that there...
Seeing The Light
By Christoph Burger, Jens Weinmann, Antony Froggatt, and Catherine Mitchell
With the emergence of decentralised energy, such as wind, solar, or biomass, as a major source for power generation,...
Building Sustainability into Real Estate
By Joanna Radeke, Alexander Boether, and Alexandre Bezzera
Both residents and shareholders enjoy the right returns when real estate companies collaborate and innovate for environmental...
Going paperless: all you need to know
If you’re a bit of a traditionalist and love making notes in a notepad or printing everything out so you have a hard copy,...
How Businesses Can Build a Credible Climate Strategy Without Relying on Offsetting as a...
By Renaud Bettin
Business leaders today face an ever-increasing pressure to disclose data on ESG policies and decarbonization plans, and accusations of greenwashing from customers...
Designing a Corporate ESG Programme that Attracts, Nurtures, and Retains Women
By Chaitra Vedullapalli
Inclusion is the new kid on the block that every company interested in advancement is courting. And one of the best methods...
Carbon Credit Fraud: COP27 and Policing the Wild West
By Maria Cronin, Craig Hogg, and Kirsten Stewart
At the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP 27), held in Egypt this month, attention has...
The Coming Food Industry Revolution: You can have your cake with wine and...
By Kevin Parker and Boris Liedtke
Balancing food supply and demand in a manner that has a positive environmental impact and ensures a healthier life...
How to Use Your Eco-friendly Approach as a Selling Point
As the market for eco-friendly and sustainable consumer goods grows and marketing campaigns emblazoned with environmentally conscious messages begin to reign mainstream advertising, what...
Diesel Polluting German Cities: Give us a Brake!
By Stefan Krause and Boris N. Liedtke
The German diesel car industry still claims its innocence on the air pollution accusations that have bombarded...
Are Millennials Driving More Sustainable Homes?
Millennials are responsible for driving a lot of new trends and services. As they make up a large proportion of consumers, businesses are constantly...
Sustainability is A Mindset, A Never Ending Journey
Interview with Franziska Gsell, Chief Marketing Officer of IWC Schaffhausen, chairwoman of the company’s Sustainability Committee
Franziska Gsell has been the Chief Marketing Officer of...
Small business? Energy savings are still a big deal. Here’s why.
When we think of improvements in energy costs and carbon footprints, it’s easy to cast our minds to the big guys. Sure, a supermarket...
The Three Different Types of Biofuel and their Uses
We mainly survive on fossil fuel, which is fuel that took millions of years to form. Fossil fuels are geologic deposits that are buried...
5 Green Benefits of Solar Energy
When we entered 2020, we entered the last decade to change our habits before the impacts of climate change would be irreversible. That's why,...
How Your Business can Contribute towards Conserving the Environment
Businesses are coming up daily with different products and services that are required by the larger population. As this happens, you find the competition...
Tips In Reducing Peak Demand In Power Consumption And Rates
As you sign your way through contracted power, check this out and learn about easy tips you can do to reduce peak power consumption....
Electric Vehicle Transformation: It’s Not Just Tesla Anymore
As more of the world grapples with the consequences of untended climate change, the pressure to be more environmental-friendly and sustainable is on every...
Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Effects on Gas Prices
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking has changed the global energy landscape, and it has also made fossil fuels a large business. Here's a look at...
5 Advantages of Solar Power for the Environment
There are almost 1.5 million solar panels installed around the United States. With growing concern over sustainability and environmental protection, homeowners are warming up...
7 Green Jobs for People Who Want To Save The Planet This 2021
We live in a time when the state of our planet is rapidly deteriorating, and green jobs are increasing. The question is how to...
Smart Moves for Europe’s Energy Intensive Industries
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sytze Dijkstra, Lasse Kari and Gargi Chakrabarty
Europe needs to keep producing chemicals, steel, and cement while reducing emissions from those industries....
Zero-Waste Tips: 10 of the Most Impactful Habits
The world produces more than 2 billion tonnes of waste yearly. And it is expected to increase to 3.40 billion tonnes by the year...
Doing Good and Doing Well: How Can Sustainability Deliver ROI?
By Luc Speisser, Global Chief Innovation Officer at Landor & Fitch
Sustainability focuses on three pillars: social, environmental, and economic, also known informally as people,...
Satellite Tech Offers Climate Change Solutions: Will the UK Take Advantage?
A lot of information on climate change has resurfaced in recent years: from rising ocean levels to spontaneous off-season hurricanes, the planet’s climate is...
Data Culture and Infrastructure in the Fight Against Climate Change
By Mathias Golombek, CTO and Green Team Ambassador, Exasol
On the opening day of COP26, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) held a press conference that...
Blog Biogas Membrane
Is Biogas the Future of energy?
Is Biogas the savior planet earth has been waiting for in a bid to fight climate change and global...
Reaching net-zero: Cities are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem
By Guilherme Rodrigues
Cities have a bad environmental reputation, mostly due to congestion and poor air quality. However, air quality is not the overall picture....
Skill-building Towards a Greener Future
By Ripin Kalra
Moving towards a greener economy is creating opportunities for the introduction of new clean technologies, green investments and jobs. Ripin Kalra, Senior...
Be Honest, Don’t Greenwash: 4 Responsible Changes to Make Your Business Greener
With the severe consequences of climate change becoming more apparent every year, many people across the world are gradually embracing a more eco-friendly mindset....
Five Ways of Reinventing CSR under Contemporary Capitalism
CSR is intimately connected with the way that capitalism is practised, and poor CSR outcomes are often the result of shortcomings of contemporary capitalism....
Taking Cue From Rajat Khare, Venture Capitalist Firms in Europe Have Gradually Started to...
Europe is reeling under unprecedented droughts never seen before in history. The drying up of the Loire river in France had an unprecedented outcry...
American’s most sustainable cities in 2019
The sustainability of a city is defined by a number of factors which vary from one authority and/or regulatory body to the next. Texas...
Corporate social responsibility – does sustainability come into it?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) means businesses operate in a way that benefits both society and the environment at large. Some debate that business sustainability,...
How to protect your business from unexpected problems
When it comes to running a business, there are a lot of things that you need to ensure are in order at all times....
Sovcombank becomes a Founding Signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Banking
Sovcombank becomes the first Russian bank to become a Founding Signatory of the UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking, committing to strategically align its...
Everything There is to Know About Tesla’s Cybertruck
A lot was made of the unveiling of Tesla’s Cybertruck, including a lot of fun about its extravagant design. But what do we actually...
5 Smart Ways to Make Your Business More Environmentally-Friendly
Creating an environmentally-friendly business is not only responsible, but it can also help grow your consumer base. Studies have shown that as many as 66%...
Changing the world with Eco-friendly cement!
Speaking on startups, today, we will check out one of the most advantageous businesses to the environment, which is Solidia! A global startup that...
Business and Governments and Civil Society and a Healthy Planet
By Sylvain Guyoton and Hervé Legenvre
The following discussion took place In April 2020. We aimed at confronting our points of views on the contradictory...
5 Causes Of Air Pollution (And How You Can Help!)
One of the leading risk factors for death in the world is air pollution, which is responsible for roughly seven million deaths every year.
9 out...
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