Carbon footprint

 
12 Mar 2023

How to calculate a carbon footprint for your business

An organisational carbon footprint is an essential component on the journey towards net-zero and is the first building block towards any sustainability strategy. A carbon footprint can also provide an initial climate risk and opportunities assessment by identifying emissions hotspots across your value chain. Companies all over the world measure and report their carbon footprint ...
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20 Feb 2023

Voluntary Reporting to Mandatory Reporting: 4 steps to future-proofing your organization

North America CEO, William Theisen, looks at reporting landscapes in the US and Canada to help companies prepare for mandatory reporting on their net-zero strategy. The world is changing fast. The pace of climate change has been increasing over the last decade, and the impacts from climate change are expected to accelerate. Since the Intergovernmental ...
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29 Apr 2022

What is an Organisational Life Cycle Assessment (OLCA)?

EcoAct Managing Consultant, Niki Inglis explains how Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) can work at an organisational level to add business value and aid the transition to net-zero. So far, more than of 70 countries  have committed to the ambition of net-zero carbon emissions. In addition, at the time of writing  2940 companies have committed to ...
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8 Feb 2022

Fresh Podcasts: Reducing Beauty’s Carbon Footprint & The Journey to Net Zero Carbon Emissions

Fresh Beauty Podcast caught up with EcoAct CEO of North America, William Theisen, to discuss beauty’s carbon footprint, net-zero carbon emissions and all things sustainability. Listen to learn more about how EcoAct is helping companies like Fresh reach their net-zero goals. Reducing Beauty’s Carbon Footprint The Journey to Net Zero Carbon Emissions Reducing Beauty’s Carbon ...
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7 Jul 2021

EcoAct helps launch Eco Rating, a new consumer sustainability labelling for mobile phones

EcoAct, an Atos company, collaborates with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Company and Vodafone on Eco Rating, a new consumer sustainability labelling for mobile phones Now you can find out how sustainable your mobile phone is thanks to Eco Rating, a new labelling system recently initiated by EcoAct and five of Europe’s leading mobile operators, ...
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24 Aug 2020

Who will be the top 10 sustainable business leaders in 2020?

This year marks EcoAct’s 10th annual ranking of FTSE 100 sustainable business leaders based on their sustainability reporting performance. Ahead of the release of this year’s report, we look back at the trends across the last decade in corporate climate reporting and sustainable business leadership. 2020 is the beginning of the final decade when we ...
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5 Nov 2019

5 reasons why sustainability software should be on your procurement list

Sustainability is, as much as anything else, a complex data management exercise. And a never-ending one at that. The demands for more transparency, better sustainability reporting, accurate carbon footprints and emissions reduction targets is growing. For all of this you need a lot of data, from a lot of sources, with a lot of time ...
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11 Oct 2018

Buildings LEED the way to climate action

Taking action to reduce the environmental footprint of buildings can produce considerable results in the fight against climate change. In the United States, buildings contribute approximately 45%, over 2300 million metric tonnes, of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). One of the main components of New York City’s strategy to align with the Paris Agreement, the global ...
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27 Jun 2018

Good News for Your Carbon Footprint: The UK is going Green

Earlier this month, DEFRA released their 2018 greenhouse gas reporting conversion factors. This year, there have been some changes to the methodologies used, as well as some key headline figures illustrating the UK’s (and beyond) progress towards carbon neutrality. The changes seen are important for companies in terms of reporting their emissions, as any significant ...
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