New GRI Standards Helping Companies Improve their Focus on Sustainability Reporting
ESG sustainability reporting is the new norm in the corporate world. Investors, customers, and government agencies are all asking for sustainability reports to decide...
The Russian Federation, President Putin and the Russian Military are Financially Liable to Ukraine...
By Charles H. Camp, Kiran Nasir Gore and Lilia Chu
The ongoing crisis prevents the Ukrainian public from accessing judicial remedies in Ukraine or Russia...
6 Easy Ways Businesses Can Be More Eco-Friendly
The potential effects of climate change are among the main long-term concerns for many individuals all over the world. As the impacts become more...
How the Russian War Against Ukraine Influences On Climate Change
Climate change and global security compete with each other to shape the future. This is especially noticeable in the first spring week's events related...
Three Steps to Getting on Track in the Race to Net Zero
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sytze Dijkstra and Monique de Ritter
The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow saw a welcome spate of...
Three Reasons Why Cultural Awareness is Important
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have long been recognised as essential to business and personal success. McKinsey first reported on its benefits as long ago...
The Wheelchair Industry in Europe: A Comprehensive Overview
As the population of Europe ages, the wheelchair industry is growing. In this blog post, we will take a comprehensive look at the wheelchair...
Plus Size Fashion: Capitalistic Feminism Or Empowerment?
Imagine you’re a woman trying on clothes in the dressing room. Suddenly the zipper won’t close. The jeans won’t fit. You feel yourself squeezing...
How Blockchain Elevates Africa and Why A Connected Africa is a Stronger Africa
Blockchain is not just about cryptocurrency. Blockchain technology could help remove intermediaries in Africa's value chain, create opportunities for small farmers and bring more...
Volunteering Platform Vee Gets $12M Funding as It Seeks to Help Companies Give Back...
Tel Aviv-based corporate volunteering platform Vee announces the completion of a $12 million fundraising round, less than a year after it launched its platform....
New Leadership for a Sustainable Future
By Matt Gitsham
At the close of COP26, an article in the Financial Times reported that although global executives welcomed the deal reached at the close...
Deciphering Details of Affordable Housing by Maxwell Drever
Decent and affordable lodging is significant to families. Indeed, it is one of the necessities of human beings. It contributes to their overall well-being,...
How Israel is Trying to Lift People From Poverty Using Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency is not an unknown term for most people, we know its advantages as well as disadvantages. In this bitcoin era, where almost everyone...
The Cycle of ESG and Compliance
By Gerry Zack, CEO of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association® (HCCA)
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
Eyal Edry, Moshe Edree, and Rafi Edry Bridging the Societal Gap and Providing Equal...
Israel has leaped in the development of modern technological innovation. Israel is becoming an entrepreneurial hub of the Middle East. The endless possibilities and...
What is Sustainable Investment, and Why Should You Care?
Sustainable investment is a relatively new concept, but it has started to gain traction as industries gain more awareness of climate risks. Investment is...
Norilsk Nickel: Environment Protection and Infrastructure Upgrade at the Core of the Updated Strategy
The Russian mining giant on Monday updated its strategy, presenting investment plans that include permafrost monitoring systems, better air quality, operations upgrade.
“We have started...
Maxwell Drever Shows how to Convert a Hotel Into an Affordable Housing Unit
With the spread of the COVID-19 virus worldwide, governments took measures for curtailing the spread of the disease. By imposing lockdown, social distancing, restricting...
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
Introduction
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
Ukrainian Reforms: Social Protests as Payoffs for Implementing European Standards
In May 2009, Ukraine became a party to the Eastern Partnership multilateral program, initiated by the Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Poland, Carl Bildt...
Top Green Tips for Making Your Office Environmentally Friendly
There are many ways an office can improve its sustainability – from adjusting the lighting system to only using power from renewable energy companies....
Finding Ways to Make it Easier for Consumers to Recycle Product Packaging
One of the biggest drawbacks to using shrinkwrap is that it is not easily recycled. However plastic film materials play a bigger part in...
The Hidden Costs of Our Fast Paced Consumer Culture
By Felix Yim
We have become wild in the way we consume products and items nowadays. It has become literally competitive, as survival has remained...
Disease Outbreaks Are Exacerbating Inequalities
There is something about the Covid-19 pandemic, which has probably never been seen in the history of humanity. Usually, whenever there is a disease...
The Corporate World’s Comeback: Time to Seize the Opportunity
By Anna Saghabalyan and Paul Argenti
Since the start of the COVID Pandemic, the world’s attention was focused on the calculation of two sets of...
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,...
4 Big Advantages of Biofuels for the World
These days the perfect kind of business structures are those that converse and use green solutions. Surprisingly, greener products like biofuels from bioliquids used...
Veins and Wires: Reflections on UrbanTech Transformation
By Dr Mike Cooray, Dr Rikke Duus and Marius Sylvestersen
What kind of urban environment would you like to live in? In this article, we...
How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Commercial Settings
It's easy to save energy by turning off lights and appliances when they're not in use. There is an obvious correlation between your energy...
Data to Address Hunger and Food Insecurity
Modern agriculture offers many technological solutions that allow you to control various events and activities in the fields. Irrigation management, smart soil sensors, satellite...
The Permanence of ESG
By Tim Bovy
Globally, we are poised at an economic inflection point and mired in a political interregnum. As a result, business, led by institutional...
Can the Zero Waste Movement Lead to Sustainable Finance?
By Shannon Bergstrom
In recent years, many people have started to question the way they deal with their waste. Whether it’s people trying to transition...
European E-waste Crisis: Tech Wastage Piles High as Research Reveals Two-thirds of Businesses Lack...
65% of European businesses do not have an environmentally sustainable process in place when it comes to disposing of IT devices.
This is...
What Is Conscious Capitalism?
Business leaders are driven to choose the best course of action for their organizations. When you learn about purpose-driven businesses, or conscious capitalism, you'll...
The CBD Situation in Europe
Today, we are telling you more about the production and distribution of CBD and how it is regulated on the European territory.
You can now buy...
Ukraine to Convene Crimea Platform Summit: Why Zelensky’s “Day of Triumph” May Come Back...
Today begins the Crimea Platform international summit, which will be convened by Ukraine in the capital Kiev. It took more than a year for...
Scaffolding? 5 Ways to Prevent Mishappenings
The spine is the most important part of our body. It is the support system that holds us. Without it, we will collapse.
Just like...
Why Installing Water Softeners Has Become a Preferred Choice in Several Business Verticals in...
By Koyel Ghosh
Water softening can be defined as a smart technique that takes out the ions that work as the major hardening agents in...
Local businesses are working to help boost the UK’s bee population
We all like bees, don’t we?
Much to the annoyance of the wasp community, their slightly chubbier, fluffy cousins tend to be considered the cuter...
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...
Sustainable Buildings: Planet, People, Profit,
By Serhii Chernyshev
Sustainable development is the course that has been chosen on the global level by the governments, businesses, and common people. Green or...
Developing Nations Need a Better Internet to Develop Their Economies
Did you know that only 44% of the global population had Internet access today? Thus, technology is unequally distributed and not accessible to everyone...
From A Millennial Crisis To A Purposeful Leadership
Interview with Agne Nainyte by Mira Vasic
The new era of leadership is asking for authentic leaders, which are purpose-driven and compassionate. Agne Nainyte leads...
Lenzing welcomes clear positioning of the EU Commission in the fight against plastic waste
Guidelines of the EU Commission to implement the Single-Use Plastics Directive have been published
Uniform labelling obligation for wipes and feminine hygiene products...
The Importance of Thermal Imaging Cameras in Public Buildings
Having your temperature checked is becoming part of normal life as the UK attempts to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
To limit the spread of...
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....
The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation Works to Eradicate Social Injustices in Ukraine
In July 2005, Rinat Akhmetov established a charitable foundation that would seek to affect real change in Ukraine by eradicating the great social injustices...
5 Powerful Fundraising Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations [2021 Guide]
Introduction
Nonprofits have been hosting fundraisers from time immemorial. The hallowed tradition of gathering your donors and throwing a gala in the name of the...
ESG Investing — Help Us Build a Better Future
Changing the world is never an easy task. In fact, some people will tell you that it’s an impossible one. Yet, even if that...
How Can Technology Solutions Help in Fighting Climate Change?
The year 2020 was the hottest in Europe, and the temperature was 1,2C higher compared to the average year in the 19th century. Global...
