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About time too I’d say. The “Climategate” affair has finally been overturned in the open media through evidence reported by a climate research team on the Berkeley Earth Project. The original media scandal occurred in 2009 when the Climate Research Unit (CRU) team at the University of East Anglia had high profile emails between senior [...]
This year Carbon Smart has revealed its second groundbreaking report on the state of sustainability and carbon assurance within the FTSE 350. The Carbon Smart report, ‘Stuck on the starting blocks: the state of sustainability assurance in 2010’ reveals how companies view assurance, and finds that many statements fail to meet minimum requirements that would [...]
The Climate Change Act requires a decision to be made on mandatory carbon reporting by April 2012. Defra published a report at the end of November 2010, highlighting the benefits of carbon reporting, and promising to announce ‘early in 2011’ whether mandatory carbon reporting would in fact be brought in, and if so, how. [...]
PwC have launched a report that demonstrates that the real estate industry have to incorporate a green agenda as it comes part and parcel of making ‘safe investment decisions’.
There is lots of support in the market for private and public sector businesses to take positive steps in reducing there carbon impact. The Carbon Smart guidance document on energy efficiency loan schemes provides more information.
Making savings on heating, cooling and lighting are some of the easiest ways of reducing business costs and ultimately improving competitiveness.
The climate is changing and the issue is here to stay. Demand for electricity and heat, the creation of waste, agriculture, and land use change are increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Carbon Smart conducted a research project to define the best practice assurance for sustainability and carbon reporting. Read on to find out more…
Esther Rodriguez shares her experience as verifier of the Equator Principles for HSBC and outlines best practices for reporting and how to prepare for assurance.
This factsheet is aimed at organisations who have not yet considered the CRC in relation to their UK business. It is a brief introduction and provides high level information.
Transcript of Esther Rodriguez’s debate at the CCRA’08, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 27 March 2009. This article is the result of a survey carried out by Carbon Smart prior to the event. More than 100 companies responded to the question.