Green Business Bureau

MARCH 29, 2022

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Aclymate to bring the GBB members a carbon footprint calculator and carbon offset marketplace. GBB and Aclymate are working together to help businesses become greener and measure their progress via the GBB EcoScoreCare and Aclymate Carbon Footprint. About Green Business Bureau.

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Carbon Climate change Sustainability Government 78

U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Accounting could prove to be time-consuming for many small business owners. However, you simply cannot undermine the role of accounting in tracking, managing, and optimizing the growth of your small business. Green Technology.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The premise behind natural capital accounting is that environmental damage is the result of mainstream economics failing to fully value natural assets. However, for policymakers and businesses natural capital accounting is increasingly seen as a pragmatic solution to a deep-rooted problem.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Sustainability 46

Low Impact

JUNE 14, 2020

Are you an accountant? Do you have an accountant? Do you know an accountant? If you could bring this article to their attention, we think they might find it interesting – it’s an idea that can be very useful for accountants, to help keep their small business clients afloat during the post-covid economic slump.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 7, 2023

Reporting guide from accountancy bodies and We Mean Business comes amid tightening mandatory climate risk reporting rules worldwide.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Over 20 organizations and businesses have come together to work on creating a common and more reliable carbon accounting mechanism to track emissions.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2022

Muneera Carr, EVP, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Wells Fargo talks with Dylan about connecting ESG issues to key business priorities at the highest levels of company leadership.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2023

Franchise businesses are a critical part of the U.S. Accounting for more than 10% of businesses, franchise establishments employ 8.5 million people and are forecast to generate $827 billion in 2022. Firstly, many franchises are experiencing considerable financial issues.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

Salesforce, Accenture and a tipping point for carbon accounting. With that heightened visibility comes questions about accountability and accounting — specifically carbon accounting. Salesforce is clearly the biggest cloud software company staking a claim in the emerging carbon accounting software category.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But other nations have moved ahead, in part through introducing tighter regulations to speed up the vital action needed from businesses. It is currently mandatory for all large businesses to report on their scope 1 and 2 emissions, which refers to direct emissions from a business. A final word.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

When people are sick, suffering and dying — with little certainty about when or how it will end — how can we be expected to focus on a project deadline, a business meeting or a PowerPoint presentation? Transparency leads to accountability, accountability drives innovation and innovation is key to resilience.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 20, 2023

Driven by advancements in corporate accountability in the European Union, we’re currently experiencing a wave of new ESG reporting frameworks and regulations. While these initiatives will spur much-needed action around ESG and climate issues, it can be challenging to decode what they mean for your business.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

That’s the big question that takes center stage at the recent annual conference hosted by Imperial College Business School. It is the first time I have spoken in my capacity as chair of the advisory board of Imperial’s new Leonardo Centre , a research facility for sustainable business, which will formally launch in June.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The deposits you make at your retail bank for personal and business accounts sustain the bank’s ability to make loans and investments. Put simply, a bank’s capital can flow towards fossil fuels or renewable energy, towards local business loans or financing environmentally damaging projects. My account is tiny.".

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2022

As long-time proponents of stakeholder capitalism, we believe that organizations should have a mechanism to integrate ESG into their business practices and to communicate their impact, positive or negative, to their stakeholders.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 15, 2023

FIs that are ready to determine their baseline face several challenges, including incomplete or inconsistent emissions data in some areas of the business. Financial institutions (FIs) must measure portfolio emissions regularly to demonstrate progress in decarbonization over time, and they must start with a baseline measurement.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 5, 2021

The fabric of a functioning and just society requires "a constant succession of eyes" on all fronts, in order to inspire and reinforce the keystone of progression: personal accountability. On those impeccably clean stoops lay a deep personal accountability for one’s own house and an underlying respect for those who have to look at it.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Sciencebasedtargets.org reports on its website, "More than 1,000 businesses are working with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce their emissions in line with climate science. We need to put a lot of zeros on the "More than 1,000 businesses" in order to get to a net-zero carbon economy. That does not happen by itself.

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Climate change Health Organic Demand 383

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2022

Between impact on the land, use of resources, construction waste and effects on air quality, the building and maintenance of homes and businesses accounts for nearly 40% of carbon emissions on the planet. Plant Prefab setting out to change all that.

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Construction Waste Waste Carbon 235

GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2022

The industrial sector accounts for more than 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions. Part of the required disclosure relates to a company’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions - the greenhouse gas emissions produced directly through business operations and the emissions related to the energy they purchase to run their business.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2022

Global business has a major role in realizing the transition to a clean economy, justly. This session will cover how the Just Transition Framework can be used to support company action on the energy transition that accounts for justice, not just gigawatts. Featuring Rich Lesser, Nancy Mahon, and Meredith Sumpter.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But what does being a net zero business mean in practice? Net zero companies aim to achieve for their own business what the world must accomplish to beat climate change. Fundamentally, net zero is not an accounting exercise—it’s an imperative to think big on climate. At Watershed, we think it’s important to maintain a high bar.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

In the wake of increasing environmental concerns and the urgent need for climate action, carbon offsetting has emerged as a crucial strategy for businesses to mitigate their carbon footprint. Competitive Advantage Businesses that integrate carbon offsetting into their operations can gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

Amnesty International is calling on companies and states to consider withholding business from Dow unless it recognizes its human rights responsibilities and takes meaningful and rapid action to redress these harms. It helped shield the companies from attempts to hold them accountable and reinforced the unequal power dynamics involved.

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Soil Business Energy Monitoring Health Energy Monitor 349

Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Negotiations this afternoon are expected to see a number of targets in the GBF debated, including Target 15 which covers nature-risk reporting at large businesses and financial institutions. Business can help to create certainty," she told BusinessGreen. Business can help to create certainty," she told BusinessGreen.

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

NiSource Inc. NYSE:NI) today (Oct 30) released its 2023 ESG Report - Building Trust for a Sustainable Future. The report highlights efforts at advancing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) i.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

The plant’s main business consists of the delivery of biogas via a 3.2-km The resulting liquid fertiliser is rich in nitrogen and merely accounts for one quarter of the original volume. Clear water accounts for the greatest share of the treatment products and is currently discharged into the receiving water.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A proposed reporting standard that seeks to unlock accountability for the impacts organizations have on the natural world, informing the global response to a deepening biodiversity crisis, has been made available. Judy Kuszewski is Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), which is responsible for setting the GRI Standards.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 27, 2022

The key to becoming a sustainable business is to have a sustainability scorecard that tracks progress and measures results. And with a sustainability scorecard, you can hold yourself accountable while providing a formal structure for your sustainability program, with goals and KPIs that can be measured. TYPES OF SCORECARDS.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 1, 2024

Transparency leads to accountability. Which investor, and in fact regulator, wouldn’t agree with these common-sense business mantras. Measure what matters. Disclosures are key. The post Why I love ESG regulation… and tell VC funds to forget about it as quickly as possible appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 22, 2022

Hence, the pressure mounts for businesses to take action and lower their carbon footprint. In this Green Business Bureau article, we’ll take a brief look at how you should account for business emissions at the corporate and product level, using the GHG Protocol’s scope emission classification system. kg CO 2e /liter.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 148

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The GHG Protocol is globally recognised as the leading GHG accounting standard. Until recently, corporates wanting to decarbonise their emissions purchased biomethane certificates and reported this as part of their Scope 1 emissions accounting. using fossil fuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

1 The total gross value added (GVA) by businesses involved in the net zero economy now stands at £74 billion. Scotland, Wales and the Midlands have particularly strong net zero economies with London having the lowest proportion of its economy based on businesses in net zero sectors. billion of private investment during 2021-2022.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 13, 2023

Australian carbon accounting outfit teams with Schneider Electric to create software that allows businesses to track their full carbon footprint. The post New carbon accounting tool takes aim at elusive Scope 3 emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Carbon Electricity 96

Green Business Bureau

MAY 11, 2022

The 2001 GHG Protocol’s guidelines were the first to categorize business GHGs as scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 emissions are also indirect GHG emissions, accounting for upstream and downstream emissions from a product or service, and emissions across a business’s supply chain.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

ImpactAlpha, November 3 – Impact investors deserve credit for pushing business and finance to be more mindful, accountable and transparent. Acumen this week. The post Deal spotlight: Acumen breaks the ice on failures in impact investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

.” “Working within three of the UN Sustainability Goals (industry, innovation and infrastructure, responsible consumption and climate change), AnyWaste.Com is really focusing on making a positive impact not only in the waste industry, but also the global business and environmental sectors. Be a waste hero. Be a AnyWaste hero!”

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