Resources

New guidance on reporting Scope 2 emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol is scheduled to be released later this year. The guidance will provide greater clarity and consistency about how businesses can account for their mixed portfolios of environmental instruments, including RECs and carbon credits, across their entire greenhouse gas emission reduction programmes. Read More

Investors, regulators, and tenants increasingly demand transparency around the environmental and social impacts of the real estate they invest in, regulate, and occupy. Disclosure of non-financial (aka sustainability) data is the “new normal” - producing a complete, accurate sustainability report is now an essential business process.  Read More

Are you a material supplier concerned with increasing demands for sustainability performance data? Or, are you a manufacturer wondering what raw materials suppliers are doing to demonstrate their sustainability performance? Here’s an article that looks at supplier transparency through the lens of the Metals and Mining industry. Broad lessons can be drawn about next steps for suppliers and the state of supply chain engagement for manufacturers.   Read More

The third edition of our employee engagement survey, created in partnership with the National Environmental Education Foundation. Read More

Marketing green products and services has always been challenging, but it is becoming more so. Customers want increasing amount of information yet insist on clear, simple messaging.That’s especially true in the B2B marketplace, where corporate and institutional buyers are asking, or demanding, unprecedented amounts of information about products’ environmental and health attributes. They are no longer satisfied with general or generic information. Read More

Companies are looking further up the supply chain at materials sourcing and product design to create more environmentally-friendly products and packaging that make waste reduction and landfill diversion goals more achievable for them and their customers.At the same time, leading companies are establishing aggressive zero waste policies that provide guiding principles and an overall vision to internal and external stakeholders. Their work represents a vital core of a zero waste sustainability initiative and the commitments, values and objectives that can drive it forward. Read More

GreenBiz Group and Waste Management recently conducted a joint research effort to identify current trends in waste reduction and recycling. Read More

Selecting an appropriate strategy for verifying product environmental sustainability has become an increasingly complicated process for manufacturers in the electronics marketplace. This UL white paper provides details on the sustainability verification options available to electronics manufacturers. Beginning with an overview of the market for sustainable electronic products, the paper then identifies the spectrum of product sustainability concerns. It then discusses various verification pathways available to manufacturers, and the role of sustainability standards in that process. Read More

Employee engagement programs and initiatives are increasingly being recognized as fundamental to achieving sustainability goals. But studies are also showing employee engagement as a driver of overall business success. Gaining the support to embed sustainability throughout the organization however, requires making the business case for employee engagement to C-suite executives. Read More

In this first-ever report, sustainability execs from big companies rate and rank 30 leading NGOs. Read More