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Sustainable IT: Atos vows to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035
Sustainable IT: Atos vows to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035

French IT giant unveils new raft of emissions reduction targets after joining Business Ambition for 1.5C coalition last week.

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 25 June 2020
'Carbon is the new calorie': Logitech launches carbon labelling for computer kit
'Carbon is the new calorie': Logitech launches carbon labelling for computer kit

Logitech announces it is to work with a number of third parties to verify and validate carbon calculations, with the first wave of labels to feature on its gaming product range

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 18 June 2020
Unilever unveils €1bn climate and nature fund
Unilever unveils €1bn climate and nature fund

Consumer goods giant confirms new target to achieve net zero across its value chain by 2039 and deliver a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023

  • Management
  • 15 June 2020
Tetra Pak commits to net zero emissions
Tetra Pak commits to net zero emissions

Packaging company confirmed today that it will set science-based emissions reduction targets for activities across its value chain as it works to reach net zero operations by 2030.

  • Management
  • 11 June 2020
Evian's Shweta Harit on circularity, Covid-19, and 'big, hairy' goals
Evian's Shweta Harit on circularity, Covid-19, and 'big, hairy' goals

Evian's vice-president of brand Shweta Harit talks to BusinessGreen about the French water company's sustainability ambitions, in particular a pledge to use 100 per cent recycled bottles by 2025.

  • Management
  • 10 June 2020
Natwest relaunches carbon calculator to cater for work from home reality
Natwest relaunches carbon calculator to cater for work from home reality

NatWest has tweaked a tool that provides guidance to staff on how to shrink their carbon footprint, as government faces warning it may have to change carbon reporting guidelines to account for huge increase in home-working

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 08 June 2020
WeTransfer shares B Corp announcement
WeTransfer shares B Corp announcement

Amsterdam-based company, which intends to reduce its carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2025, has vowed to encourage other technology companies to operate more sustainability.

  • Management
  • 03 June 2020
Google backs off on custom AI for oil and gas extraction
Google backs off on custom AI for oil and gas extraction

A new Greenpeace report notes that Microsoft, Amazon and Google are undermining their public carbon commitments through by providing services that allow oil and gas firms extract fossil fuels from the earth.

  • Supply chain
  • 20 May 2020
Report: European retailers failing to disclose major chunk of CO2 from food waste
Report: European retailers failing to disclose major chunk of CO2 from food waste

Planet Tracker argues failure to disclose food loss and waste-related supply chain emissions exposes investors to heightened financial risk

  • Supply chain
  • 27 April 2020
The resurgence of product CO2 labelling
The resurgence of product CO2 labelling

Amid growing corporate interest, Hugh Jones of the Carbon Trust considers the history and future for product carbon footprinting

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 23 April 2020
Report: Imported emissions responsible for almost half the UK's carbon footprint
Report: Imported emissions responsible for almost half the UK's carbon footprint

New findings from WWF and University of Leeds argue that the UK must develop carbon policies that take both territorial and offshore carbon emissions into account.

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 16 April 2020
'Planetary computer': Microsoft ramps up sustainability vision with new land protection pledges
'Planetary computer': Microsoft ramps up sustainability vision with new land protection pledges

Microsoft has pledged to protect more than 11,000 acres of land by 2025, through a range of measures that include land acquisition, national park creation, and backing community- or Indigenous-led conservation efforts.

  • Management
  • 15 April 2020
'Unintended consequences': Road to net-zero must harmonise different climate priorities, warns Nature Capital Committee
'Unintended consequences': Road to net-zero must harmonise different climate priorities, warns Nature Capital Committee

New report from independent advisory committee warns the government must approach net zero carbon target carefully, with joined-up policy interventions that do not inadvertently lead to higher emissions

  • Offsets
  • 07 April 2020
Shell trims carbon footprint, as boss vows to 'step up' climate efforts
Shell trims carbon footprint, as boss vows to 'step up' climate efforts

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 07 April 2020
Survey: Only a third of firms measure climate impact of IT operations
Survey: Only a third of firms measure climate impact of IT operations

Poll of 500 large UK businesses indicates only a third measure the climate impact and energy consumption of staff IT use

  • IT
  • 23 March 2020
Why 2020 is the crunch year for climate risk reporting
Why 2020 is the crunch year for climate risk reporting

Companies need to work out how to report their climate exposure or risk regulators stepping in, argues Verisk Maplecroft's Will Nichols

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 11 March 2020
Can a national carbon price be made fair and effective?
Can a national carbon price be made fair and effective?

Conventional fiscal thinking needs to be turned on its head to implement a fairer, more effective approach to net zero, according to the authors of a new report

  • Carbon Trading
  • 10 March 2020
Investment Association lends voice to climate risk reporting demands
Investment Association lends voice to climate risk reporting demands

Investor group representing £7.7tr under management calls for listed firms to report on climate risks, as leading analyst warns of on-going TCFD reporting gap

  • Investment
  • 05 March 2020
Nationally Determined Contribution - a UK COP out?
Nationally Determined Contribution - a UK COP out?

The UK's statutory 2050 net zero target should provide the basis for imminent updates to its Paris Agreement pledges, argues Labour's Alan Whitehead, despite what Ministers may suggest to the contrary

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 28 February 2020
Towards Zero Carbon: Expert commission begins work to design UK carbon pricing system
Towards Zero Carbon: Expert commission begins work to design UK carbon pricing system

Members of the commission, which was assembled by the Zero Carbon Campaign, have been drawn from political, scientific, academic and climate policy backgrounds

  • Policy
  • 28 February 2020
Accountants must aid fight against climate change, industry bodies urge
Accountants must aid fight against climate change, industry bodies urge

Accountants will play a key role in reshaping economic policy and market mechanisms for the net zero transition, sector bodies argue

  • Management
  • 25 February 2020
Heineken cheers CO2, water and clean energy progress on sustainability goals
Heineken cheers CO2, water and clean energy progress on sustainability goals

Dutch brewing giant released join financial and sustainability report as it sets sights on developing new 2030 Science Based Targets for CO2

  • Management
  • 24 February 2020
'Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity': EY to go 'carbon neutral' by end of 2020
'Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity': EY to go 'carbon neutral' by end of 2020

Accounting giant to both reduce and offset its carbon emissions as part of plans to 'drive long-term, sustainable growth'

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 03 February 2020
A-List: Which companies are the world's climate action leaders? And why are they so commercially successful?
A-List: Which companies are the world's climate action leaders? And why are they so commercially successful?

Non-profit CDP has completed its annual assessment of 8,000 of the climate disclosure and transparency of the world's largest companies - and they stand out in more ways than one

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 20 January 2020
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