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Collaborating to conserve ecosystems and biodiversity
Stefanie Koch, Holcim
Rashila Tong, Holcim
Lafarge HolcimConserving ecosystems and stopping biodiversity loss is one of the major issues of our time, in particular in situations where industrial activities and population growth put increasing pressure on natural habitats. Believing that this issue can only be addressed by working together, leading building materials company Holcim and IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, have joined forces to effectively manage biodiversity conservation and to create biodiversity-based sustainable livelihoods. more[...]
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When Water Becomes Sustainable Business
Carsten Bo Kvistgaard, Grundfos
GrundfosBy pairing existing technologies with an innovative business model, Grundfos LIFELINK responsibly changes the way of operating and managing rural water supply systems. more[...]
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A Self-Assessment Tool to Accompany Our Suppliers in Their Sustainable Development Approach
Editorial TeamSince more than 15 years, Carrefour has shown its leadership through its commitments (1st French company to build a partnership with WWF to work on environmental issues in 1998, providing its own brand products suppliers with a sustainability self-assessment tool) and its product innovation (1st French retailer to propose a green energy offer at competitive price in 2009, organic healthcare range of own brand products in 2008). more[...]
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A Self-Assessment Tool to Accompany Our Suppliers in Their Sustainable Development Approach
Hélène Jessua
Carrefour GroupWithin the framework of its sustainable development approach and its commitment to the respect for the Global Compact Principles regarding the environment (Principles 7, 8, and 9), Carrefour has created a sustainable development self-assessment tool to encourage its suppliers to implement a sustainability approach. Adapted to SMEs, this tool covers all the areas of a company at the social and environmental levels. more[...]
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Efficient Household Appliances Are Good for the Environment and Your Wallet
Editorial TeamEnergy efficient Home Appliances can make a considerable contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Studies completed by independent bodies have found that home appliances make a significant contribution to reducing energy consumption and global warming. A ten year old refrigerator consumes up to five times as much energy as a comparable new model. more[...]
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Efficient Household Appliances Are Good for the Environment and Your Wallet
Fridolin Weindl, BSHAccounting for almost 30 percent of consumption, private households are the second-largest source of energy use and, with 21 percent, the third-largest source of CO2 emissions worldwide. Electrical appliances, in turn, account for almost half of the entire electricity use in private households. more[...]
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Corporate Sustainability - The Way Forward
Natalia Gonchar, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company
Sakhalin EnergySakhalin Energy has based its activities on a strategy of sustainable development. It allows the company to achieve business goals while taking into consideration the potential environmental and social impacts on its employees and on local communities. It is fair to say that such an approach means no operational or technological decision is made without adequate environmental, health,and social assessments of the potential impact of the Sakhalin-2 Project. more[...]
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Green Technology: Solutions for Climate Change
Editorial TeamThe Bosch Group is facing the challenge of the climate change. Considering the eminent importance and vast implications of the topic, as an individual or as a single company one might falter faced with such a challenge. At Bosch, however, we are convinced that innovative technology – already in place or yet to be developed – has considerable potential in creating and finding solutions. more[...]
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Green Technology: Solutions for Climate Change
Bosch GroupThe Bosch Group is facing the challenge of the climate change. Considering the eminent importance and vast implications of the topic, as an individual or as a single company one might falter faced with such a challenge. At Bosch, however, we are convinced that innovative technology – already in place or yet to be developed – has considerable potential in creating and finding solutions. more[...]
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Implementing Solutions to Optimize Energy Consumption and Fight Climate Change
Editorial TeamIn line with Italian and EU energy and environment objectives, Autostrade per l'Italia has boosted initiatives and projects promoting the use of renewable sources for the production of electricity and improvement of energy efficiency in its buildings and infrastructure. more[...]
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Implementing Solutions to Optimize Energy Consumption and Fight Climate Change
Simonetta Giordani, Autostrade per l’Italiautostrade per l'Italia –100 percent owned by shareholder Atlantia S.p.A., which is responsible for investments and strategies in the transport and communications infrastructure and networks sector – is the leading European concessionaire for toll motorway management and more[...]
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R&D driving the sustainable future of energy
Eric Brandsma, E.ON
E.ON AGThe world of energy is currently facing its potentially greatest challenge since the invention of electricity. This is being fuelled by three fundamental development trends. Firstly, demand for energy is continuing to increase. The IEA estimates that there will be about a 50 percent increase in demand for primary energy worldwide by 2030. This will require massive investments in energy generation. Secondly, climate change and the real threats it involves demand unrelenting action in support of global climate protection. Thirdly, the fact that fossil resources are not unlimited means that energy has to be treated even more responsibly. more[...]
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Keep persevering and act local
Peter Graf, AMPEG
AMPEGBad news from the world of climate research arrives on our doorsteps nearly every day, and not one day goes by without our using a back door to redress our personal balance of thought on the world in which our children will live one day: Perhaps it is just a temporary glitch in the climate—something natural, that will right itself in the end. Even Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research consoles himself with the hope that the scientific community may have made a collective error on this issue. He expressed his thoughts on the percentage probability of his hopes becoming true in the following statement on 26th March 2009. "Well, the chance that the whole scientific world has actually made a mistake here probably lies below one percent." more[...]
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