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Climate Neutral Certification labels products with minimized carbon footprints

AGreenLiving

The idea of the Climate Neutral Certification is a simple one — give businesses the opportunity to identify their carbon emissions and then reduce them and pay for programs that offset them. Climate Neutral helps businesses measure their carbon footprint to meet a uniform standard.

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8 Steps to Green Business Certification With Little Monetary Investment

Green Business Bureau

Becoming a Certified Green Business. Congratulations on starting your green business journey and for considering making your organization a green certified one. The ROI of Green Business Certification. Becoming a green business delivers a strong ROI and requires only a handful of green projects to get that return.

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Sustainable Construction: 6 Initiatives to Create a Robust Sustainability Strategy

Green Business Bureau

Construction and buildings are responsible for 39% of carbon emissions globally. With this in mind, a report by the World Green Building Council set a goal to have every building in the world achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Green Business Certification with the Green Business Bureau platform will help you here.

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Green Your Workplace With These Eco-Friendly Office Products and Supplies

Green Business Bureau

Your business needs a lot of stuff in order to run – paper, ink, computers, coffee, toilet paper, lightbulbs and the list goes on. But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. The office, the place where hard work happens and great ideas are born.

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How cloud computing can close the gap between green commitments and action 

Business Green

Individual businesses cannot solve the climate crisis alone, but thanks to advances in cloud technology we have the tools to help, writes Google Cloud's Justin Keeble. According to the survey, 93 per cent of UK business leaders feel technology makes it possible to be more sustainable, and there's no doubt that this is true.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. RECLAIMED LUMBER.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.