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Sustainability remains a priority for companies with the majority embracing technology solutions alongside process changes. Sustainability is a key focus of companies worldwide, according to the latest Honeywell 2023 Environmental Sustainability Index that shows an increase in corporate confidence, quarter over quarter, in meeting near and long-term environmental goals with organisations taking a balanced approach to sustainability initiatives. Honeywell 1Q 2023 Environmental Sustainability Index is a quarterly indicator of key trends pertaining to global efforts in climate change mitigation and other sustainability initiatives. The index provides a comparison of corporate...

Metal recycler EMR has gained the world’s first environmental product declaration (EPD) for its reusable low carbon steel product. An environmental product declaration (EPD) provides an independently-verified summary of the environmental impact of a product through its life-cycle, calculated via a life-cycle assessment (LCA). Without the need for re-melting, long-distance transportation and the addition of nature-depleting iron ore, reusing steel beams and columns recovered by EMR within end-of-life buildings creates 97.5 percent less carbon emissions than conventional steel products (47kgCO2e per tonne compared with the World Steel Association’s global average...

IoT represents a transformational point in understanding the full potential of a digital-first approach to sustainability. Over the last five years, there has been a significant increase in the number of public and private sector organisations exploring and benefiting from Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Its capabilities to capture and share data are helping to create a force for good within communities across the globe. Last year, City of Edinburgh Council invested in a state-of-the-art ‘smart waste’ system that is changing how the local authority manages waste collections.  Eleven thousand...

Net zero targets are now expected from companies in every sector. Here is an official 7-step guide developed by the University of Oxford. The following are clear steps to follow in setting net zero commitments developed by the University of Oxford based on minimum criteria for the UNFCCC-backed Race to Zero Campaign and an extensive series of stakeholder workshops. By taking these steps organisations can join the global effort to meet the Paris Agreement goals. The criteria were created by the networks and initiatives that form the Race to Zero’s international climate action community. ...

ESG investment is threatened by political pressure in America that could derail efforts to tackle climate change, warns the ceo of one of the world’s largest financial organisations. The warning from deVere Group’s Nigel Green comes as it is revealed that the world’s second-largest global asset manager is resigning from the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, whose members are committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Republicans in the U.S. appear to be stepping up their attacks on financial institutions that they say are hostile to fossil fuels,”...

COP15 leaders have called for urgent agreement on the Global Biodiversity Framework in order to save and protect the natural world. The UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 being staged in Montreal, Canada is calling for full and urgent implementation of its Global Biodiversity Framework that aims to conserve, sustainably use and rebuild the web of life. “The Global Biodiversity Framework will need to be delivered in full, urgently and across all of society,” said Inger Andersen, under-secretary-general of the UN and executive director of the UN Environment Programme, at the opening...