Carbon Accounting

Carbon Accounting

Tourism sector checks in for industry-wide sustainability journey

Partnership of leading hotel groups unveil first joint carbon, water, employment and human rights targets

clock 26 September 2017 • 1 min read

Carbon Accounting

Hot topic: It takes more than clean power to reach renewables targets

Cargill, General Motors, Kimberly-Clark, Mars and P&G throw their weight behind an effort to take stock of thermal loads

clock 22 September 2017 • 3 min read

Carbon Accounting

Cheap Monday tailors clothing range to fit sustainability goals

Fashion brand aims to make all its menswear and womenswear from sustainable materials by late 2018

clock 20 September 2017 • 1 min read

Carbon Accounting

Dressing for success: Gap, Nike, and Levi Strauss push Science-based Targets Initiative membership to over 300 companies

Clothing giants join with AkzoNobel, HP, Nokia and others in becoming latest multinationals to agree to deep emissions reduction goals

clock 18 September 2017 • 2 min read

Carbon Accounting

PepsiCo: Green shoots for palm oil sourcing, but slow progress elsewhere

First report on food and beverage giant's new 2025 climate targets reveals some early progress, but company remains well short of 2020 goals

clock 15 September 2017 • 2 min read

Carbon Accounting

It's time for Sustainable Business 2.0

Forum for the Future's Steph Draper has spotted a new wave of corporate leadership founded on collaboration and high ambition

clock 15 September 2017 • 3 min read

Management

'Huge missed opportunity': Top brands accused of failing to quantify green gains

Major new report finds 42 per cent of telecommunications and consumer goods companies are failing to report on the financial value that results from strong environmental performance

clock 13 September 2017 • 2 min read

Management

BT dials up ambitious 1.5C aligned emissions target

Telco giant sets goal to cut carbon emissions 87 per cent by 2030, after hitting 2020 target four years early

clock 12 September 2017 • 2 min read

Carbon Accounting

DS Smith shrink-wraps CO2 emissions, boosts sourcing standards

Packaging giant cuts relative emissions by 6.7 per cent in 2016/7 and now sources 85 per cent of packaging fibre from FSC-certified sites

clock 08 September 2017 • 1 min read

Supply chain

Mars: To avert dangerous warming, we must untangle the supply chain web

Kate Wylie, Mars' global head of sustainability, talks to BusinessGreen about the food giant's new $1bn plan to help fix "broken" supply chains

clock 06 September 2017 • 6 min read