Research / #emissions
In cities, mobility plays a particularly central role for ensuring prosperity and social cohesion in a context of high population density and intense economic activity. Yet mobility is also a …
Carbon & Climate
Cleaning Delhi's air
What does it take to clean Delhi's air?
Manufacturing
Adaptation of the PSILA technique for CFP modelling and analysis of closed-loop production systems
In a previous work, the Product Structure-based Integrated Life cycle Analysis (PSILA) technique was developed to conduct cost modelling and analysis of closed-loop production systems.
CSR
Continuously improving sustainability - Lean & Six Sigma team up for environmental sustainability
Rockwell Collins, an aerospace company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, decided to use the EPA Lean and the Environment toolkits, their existing Lean and Six Sigma program, and leverage their …
Manufacturing
Novo Nordisk’s environmental profit and loss account
The Novo Nordisk Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L) is a response to PUMA's call for contributions to the E P&L methodology and the expert review of PUMA's E …
The EAPF commissioned Trucost to assess and analyse sixteen of their active and passive equity investment portfolios, with regard to their exposure to the embedded carbon emissions within fossil fuel …
Climate change creates a variety of risks for investors. The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) highlighted climate and carbon risks in its 2013 report 'Portfolio Carbon: Measuring, …
Brazil's financial sector is dependent on natural capital to support economic growth and ensure future returns for investors. Nature's assets are abundant in Brazil, from its farmland, forests and energy …
The eighth annual State of Green Business report continues GreenBiz's tradition of opening a window into how, and how much, companies are improving their environmental performance and how much their …
Policy & Finance
The Low-Carbon Company: Mastering the low-carbon economy
This new thought leadership paper from global sustainability consultants Corporate Citizenship, explores how leading companies are already adopting low-carbon strategies in light of the growing constraints on carbon.
A landmark Cornell University study has industry-wide data collection and analysis effort to benchmark. This report highlights the results of the first Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking (CHSB) study which focuses …
As hotel companies seek in good faith to determine and report their carbon footprints, often in response to stakeholder requests, the issue of materiality arises, in which the hotel firm …
