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Packaging Waste and the Need for Sustainable Improvement

3BL Media

The second system is built environment, which is responsible for 40% of global GHG emissions, one-quarter of land system change and contributes to water stress. The third is manufactured goods, which contribute primarily to pollution and climate change through heavy material- and energy-intensive industrial activities at the production level.

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Elevating the Threshold of Healthier Homes for All

3BL Media

Nicor Gas’s white paper highlighted the benefits: cleaner indoor air, safer living conditions and reduced energy burdens. They help create healthier, people-first spaces while fighting climate change.”

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Seeing the Wood and the Trees

Chris Hall

Europe needs its forests to remove more carbon from the atmosphere if it is to meet climate change goals by 2050 and beyond. Paul McMahon, Managing Partner of SLM Partners , explains why continuous cover forestry is superior to rotational forestry for carbon storage, biodiversity and profitability.

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Step Forward for Investable Green KPIs in Real Estate

Chris Hall

The Aligning Real Estate Sustainability Indicators (ARESI) working group has published a white paper which aims to better align investors efforts at measuring the sustainability of their real estate investments with climate transition-focused key performance indicators (KPIs) in European legislation.

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Squaring the circle: Making sense of the UK Industrial Strategy

Envirotec Magazine

Certainly, it seems to mark a point of departure from government white papers of the past. Such documents all too often present as an exhaustive list of “things we know to be a problem”, followed by an insistence that, this time , we’ve got the magic solution – a pitfall this white paper didn’t avoid.

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Seeing the Wood and the Trees

Chris Hall

Europe needs its forests to remove more carbon from the atmosphere if it is to meet climate change goals by 2050 and beyond. Paul McMahon, Managing Partner of SLM Partners , explains why continuous cover forestry is superior to rotational forestry for carbon storage, biodiversity and profitability.

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APAC on course to become world’s largest CO2 shipping market, forecasts new Xodus CCUS report

Alternative Energy Mag

Simon Allison, Vice President APAC, Xodus, said: "As the urgency to tackle climate change intensifies, CCUS has staked a claim as one of the most effective and immediate solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from hard-to-abate sectors such as cement, steel and fossil fuel power generation.